Neve P, Barney J N, Buckley Y, Cousens R D, Graham S, Jordan N R, Lawton-Rauh A, Liebman M, Mesgaran M B, Schut M, Shaw J, Storkey J, Baraibar B, Baucom R S, Chalak M, Childs D Z, Christensen S, Eizenberg H, Fernández-Quintanilla C, French K, Harsch M, Heijting S, Harrison L, Loddo D, Macel M, Maczey N, Merotto A, Mortensen D, Necajeva J, Peltzer D A, Recasens J, Renton M, Riemens M, Sønderskov M, Williams M
Rothamsted Research Biointeractions & Crop Protection Department Harpenden Hertfordshire UK.
Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg VA USA.
Weed Res. 2018 Aug;58(4):250-258. doi: 10.1111/wre.12304. Epub 2018 Mar 28.
Weedy plants pose a major threat to food security, biodiversity, ecosystem services and consequently to human health and wellbeing. However, many currently used weed management approaches are increasingly unsustainable. To address this knowledge and practice gap, in June 2014, 35 weed and invasion ecologists, weed scientists, evolutionary biologists and social scientists convened a workshop to explore current and future perspectives and approaches in weed ecology and management. A horizon scanning exercise ranked a list of 124 pre-submitted questions to identify a priority list of 30 questions. These questions are discussed under seven themed headings that represent areas for renewed and emerging focus for the disciplines of weed research and practice. The themed areas considered the need for transdisciplinarity, increased adoption of integrated weed management and agroecological approaches, better understanding of weed evolution, climate change, weed invasiveness and finally, disciplinary challenges for weed science. Almost all the challenges identified rested on the need for continued efforts to diversify and integrate agroecological, socio-economic and technological approaches in weed management. These challenges are not newly conceived, though their continued prominence as research priorities highlights an ongoing intransigence that must be addressed through a more system-oriented and transdisciplinary research agenda that seeks an embedded integration of public and private research approaches. This horizon scanning exercise thus set out the building blocks needed for future weed management research and practice; however, the challenge ahead is to identify effective ways in which sufficient research and implementation efforts can be directed towards these needs.
杂草对粮食安全、生物多样性、生态系统服务构成重大威胁，进而对人类健康和福祉造成威胁。然而，目前许多杂草管理方法越来越不可持续。为了填补这一知识和实践空白，2014年6月，35名杂草与入侵生态学家、杂草科学家、进化生物学家和社会科学家召开了一次研讨会，探讨杂草生态学和管理的当前及未来观点与方法。一项前瞻性扫描活动对预先提交的124个问题进行了排序，以确定30个优先问题清单。这些问题在七个主题标题下进行了讨论，这些主题代表了杂草研究和实践中重新关注和新出现的重点领域。这些主题领域考虑了跨学科的必要性、综合杂草管理和农业生态方法的更多采用、对杂草进化、气候变化、杂草入侵性的更好理解，以及最后杂草科学面临的学科挑战。几乎所有确定的挑战都基于需要继续努力使杂草管理中的农业生态、社会经济和技术方法多样化并加以整合。这些挑战并非新出现的，但它们作为研究重点持续突出，凸显了一种持续的顽固态度，必须通过更具系统性和跨学科的研究议程来解决，该议程寻求公共和私营研究方法的内在整合。因此，这项前瞻性扫描活动为未来杂草管理研究和实践奠定了基础；然而，未来的挑战是确定有效的方法，以便能够将足够的研究和实施工作针对这些需求。
