Preface ix
Chapter 1 A Brief History of Weeds and Their Impact 1
Chapter 2 Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming: The “Green” in the Greenhouse Effect 23
Chapter 3 An Evaluation of the Impact of Rising Carbon Dioxide and Climatic Change on Weed Biology: From the Cell to the Plant 39
Chapter 4 An Evaluation of the Impact of Rising Carbon Dioxide and Climatic Change on Weed Biology: Competition to Community Composition 61
Chapter 5 Weeds on the Farm: Assessing the Role of Climate Change and CO2 on Agricultural Productivity 85
Chapter 6 Invasive Plants and Climate Change in Natural Ecosystems 107
Chapter 7 Weeds, CO2, Climate, and Health 127
Chapter 8 Weed Management: Herbicides 143
Chapter 9 Weed Management: The Rest of the Story 163
Chapter 10 Benefits from Weeds 181
Chapter 11 Weeds in a Time of Climate 199
Appendix 219
Index 227
Jeffrey Dukes Purdue University.