Weed flora data from small scale diversification experiment “patchCrop” and reference fields at Northeast Germany

Heterogeneity at different scales is claimed to be a key factor for promoting biodiversity on agricultural land while minimizing risks for production and providing important ecological feedback loops in farming systems. The objective of the patchCrop experiment was to analyze the potential of small-scale diversification, as created by clustering patches of 5 different crops in a single field („PatchCropping"), for bridging ecological and farming goals for the weed flora.
The PatchCrop experiment was carried out as an on-farm experiment on a typical agricultural farm in NE-Germany. The field with the patch crop design (70 ha) consisted of 30 patches (6x5 field units, of 5.184 m² each) under nine different crops organized in 2 different crop rotations and 2 weed control intensities with 3 replications. The weed flora at the PatchCropp field was compared to the weed floras at 6 sole cropped fields in the surrounding the field with the PatchCrop experiment. The 6 reference sole cropping fields had a size between 10 and 46 ha and included 2 weed control intensities analogous to those at the PatchCrop field. This table contains the Index of the data collection.

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