Buffer zones for biodiversity of plants and arthropods: is there a compromise on width?

Appendix A: Field History and Treatments

Table A.1. Field data: field size, previous crop, dates of sowing and harvest and performed treatments with fertilizer, minerals, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Bold numbers are the applied pesticide quantities relative to the recommended quantity (behandlingsindex, BI) in ‘middeldatabasen.dk'.

Treatments of the fields Skovmark
(SM)
Møllemark
(MM)
Enghaven
(EH)
Andersmark
(AM)
         
Size (ha) 23.14 22.24 16.66 13.30
Previous crop Corn Winter Wheat Spring Barley Spring Barley
Glyphomax
(MM & AM 0.429; 1.50 L/ha)
none 28-03-2008 24-09-2007 28-03-2008
(EH 0.571; 2.00 L/ha)        
Soil finish 07-04-2008 07-04-2008 07-04-2008 07-04-2008
Sowing of Spring Barley 29-04-2008 24-04-2008 28-04-2008 29-04-2008
Ammonia fertilizer (130 kg/ha) 29-04-2008 24-04-2008 28-04-2008 29-04-2008
Ammoniumsulfate 21 24S 13-05-2008 12-05-2008 11-05-2008 12-05-2008
         
1st Pesticide application (dosage; amount per ha)        
         
Harmony Plus ST (0.375;0.75 tbl/ha) 21-05-2008 22-05-2008 21-05-2008 22-05-2008
Oxitril CM (0.2; 0.2 L/ha) 21-05-2008 22-05-2008 21-05-2008 22-05-2008
Starane 180 S (0.286; 0.2 L/ha) 21-05-2008 22-05-2008 21-05-2008 22-05-2008
Opus (0.2; 0.2 L/ha) 21-05-2008 22-05-2008 21-05-2008 22-05-2008
Amistar (0.1; 0.1 L/ha) 21-05-2008 22-05-2008 21-05-2008 22-05-2008
Manganesulfate (1 kg/ha) 21-05-2008 22-05-2008 21-05-2008 22-05-2008
         
2nd Pesticide application (dosage; amount per ha)        
         
Amistar (0.1; 0.1 L/ha) 17-06-2008 17-06-2008 17-06-2008 17-06-2008
Folicur EC 250 (0.1; 0.1 L/ha) 17-06-2008 17-06-2008 17-06-2008 17-06-2008
Karate (0.66; 0.2 L/ha) 17-06-2008 17-06-2008 17-06-2008 17-06-2008
         
3rd Pesticide application (dosage; amount per ha)        
         
Karate (1.0; 0.3 L/ha) 02-07-2008* 02-07-2008* 02-07-2008* 02-07-2008*
         
Harvest 22-08-2008 18-08-2008 15-08-2008 22-08-2008
         
         

* only plots sprayed, rest of the field sprayed 04-07-2008

Table A.2. Trade name, type and active compounds of applied pesticide products.

Pesticide product (trade name) Type of product Active compound
Glyphomax Herbicide Glyphosate
Harmony Plus Herbicide Tribenuron-methyl + thifensulfuronmethyl
Oxitril CM Herbicide Ioxynil+bromoxynil
Starane 180 S Herbicide Fluroxypyr
Opus Fungicide Epoxiconazol
Amistar Fungicide Azoxystrobin
Folicur EC 250 Fungicide Tebuconazol
Karate Insecticide Lambda-cyhalothrin

 



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