How To Use Monoculture In A Sentence
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I let them assume, as most people naturally assume, particularly people from a monoculture, that our society is pretty much like theirs.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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The surroundings are of heather, not some extreme monoculture, but a pattern with grasses and bilberry.
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In conventional farming, a single variety of crop plant is grown by itself in large tracts - a method known as monoculture.
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Monoculture practices can incorporate multiple cropping systems by using rotations, borders, and cover crops.
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Our president once used the word monoculture in a sentence.
Paula Crossfield: The Obama Administration and Food, Year One
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The monoculture is ignoring the gnats buzzing around the rotten fruit.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Dangers of a Monoculture — Reactions to the CRU Emails
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Soil can be seeded within monoculture grass, or trees can be planted widely apart so that they do not become roosts for mynas and starlings.
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Being a standalone literary monoculture is too dangerous, too fragile.
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Modern ‘monoculture’ is central to the unverified claims about modern varieties being less disease resistant.
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Brazilian agriculture has been going through a rapid process of modernization in recent years, with the expansion of intensive monoculture.
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excoriating the evils of "monolingualism" and "monoculture"-- that would be English -- and decrying currency speculators and manipulators.
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B. madritensis also respired significantly less in monoculture than in mixed culture, but the difference was apparent immediately after labelling.
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Unlike silviculture groups and pulp-and-paper industries that plant only one kind of species in a large area, a practice known as monoculture, Maathai was specific about the need for correct trees being planted in the correct places.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar
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Reports from the West Indies during the second half of the century indicate the steady advance of sugar cultivation, although sugar monoculture was certainly not the case in these islands.
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This huge monoculture is covering most of the middle West and a lot of the rest of the country like a second great American lawn.
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Detailed records demonstrate the extent of buffel invasion producing a ground cover monoculture in richer soil areas.
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, [47], and transgressive overyielding, where some species-rich replicates outperform the best monoculture, due to niche complementarity or facilitation
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Populations fluctuated with the extent of monoculture, choice of cultivars, and extent of parasites.
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Unlike silviculture groups and pulp-and-paper industries that plant only one kind of species in a large area, a practice known as monoculture, Maathai was specific about the need for correct trees being planted in the correct places.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar
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I saw few animals beyond birds and an occasional deer as this massive monoculture forest that lies between eight thousand and ten thousand feet was rather sterile for wildlife, a biological desert with virtually no understory.
Bird Cloud
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S. alterniflora is common along the east coast of North America, forming vast expanses of near monoculture in the south-eastern USA.
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A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
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More and more I’m sure that in the 21st century, the century we’re living in now, monoculture is an artifact, and the individual, the micro-journalist, the micro-market, micro-media, anything but mainstream, that defines who we are.
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Wine prices collapsed and in Languedoc, which had gone over to wine monoculture, there was a massive peasant revolt in the summer of 1907.
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The necessity for crop protection emerged with agriculture not because of any practice of monoculture but because crops were now being grown in areas outside where they originated.
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Monoculture forests reduce the range of habitats for birds and other wildlife and thereby reduce the environmental and economic benefits people derive from wildlife seed-dispersal.
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The palm oil industry is thriving and oil palm monocultures now dominate the landscape of South-East Asia.
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Are monoculture fish farms using sustainable practices enough, or just another form of monoculture crop that doesn't leverage biodiversity to restore healthy biodiverse living systems?
Mark Hyman, MD: Wild Fish? Farmed Fish? What Should We Eat?
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Banana plants are interspersed among the manioc, avoiding the monoculture typical of industrialized agriculture.
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Soil degradation due to sugar-cane monoculture and pesticides are the most serious problems.
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They rotate their crops, thereby helping the soil to recover from centuries of monoculture under sugarcane.
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We've seen the best kind of solutions to climate change aren't about adding a single gene or stacking a bunch of genes into a crop and proceeding with the idea that a monoculture is a good thing.
Paula Crossfield: Reclaiming Value: An Interview with Raj Patel
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Soil can be seeded within monoculture grass, or trees can be planted widely apart so that they do not become roosts for mynas and starlings.
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Heirloom plants can also help buck the trend of monoculture, in which one variety is grown in vast fields.
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We have here a lesson not only in secure decentralization, but the security of polyculture, superior to the insecurity of monoculture.
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After a while, heather monoculture is broken by an intake field and our path leads to a shallow valley that is a mosaic of ground-cover greens and is curlew country.
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So, if the "monoculture" is responsible for the current recession, doesn't that also imply that that same monoculture is responsible for the vast and incredible wealth, and subsequent increases in freedom, health, and human rights, produced over the past, say, 100 years?
Monoculture Is Bad For Business - Anil Dash
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A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
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I dunno, the * title* of the post says that monoculture is what's bad for business, and yet the only defensive responses I've gotten have asked "Why are you blaming white men?
Monoculture Is Bad For Business - Anil Dash
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When the native species is suppressed, the area becomes a monoculture of purple loosestrife.
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These appeals more often than not find a measure of uncritical acceptance in countries that formerly have been monocultures.
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Too many developing countries, Salmon contended, encourage farmers to embrace "monoculture" -- growing just one crop at a time.
Matthew Jacob: Refocusing the Locavore Message
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The resulting monocultured crops are genetically limited and far more susceptible to insects, blights, diseases, and bad weather than are diverse crops.
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These species are under an unusual selection regime in that their hosts are often isogenic and planted in monoculture.
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If you can sit back, enjoy the scenery, the touching humour, the deft performances and the clever send-ups of American monoculture, this is one brilliant, meandering ride.
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The fields flourished but with such vast areas of monoculture, farmers had to use massive amounts of chemical pesticides.
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It should be added, though, that monoculture, especially of molluscs in brackish water and of predatory fish such as trout, salmon, or groupers, can furnish high annual yields that are commercially attractive in spite of substantial inputs: for these species, the food is extraneously supplied.
Chapter 14
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The non-native P. australis can grow up to 5 meters tall, has a rough, entirely green stalk, dark blue-green foliage, a dense flower panicle and often grows in dense monocultures.
Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America
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What has happened is what happens too often - a limited polyculture is becoming a monoculture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Interlocked directorship is an economic monoculture. —
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But he was unhappy about planting only Douglas-fir or ponderosa pine on a site, replacing the natural mixed species with a monoculture.
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That monoculture is gone or is quickly fracturing – I don’t know if the goastses and the oolongs are replacing them; like the Numa Dance or star wars kid that’s the only thing I can see that is close to ‘did you watch that show last night?’
Podcasting is NOT radio…
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That's odd for an Iowa farmer, most of whom sell the trees to loggers and raise resource-hungry animals or monocultured crops.
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Corn was planted at 53,000 plants per ha in both monoculture and polyculture.
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Today's trends in agriculture continue to be driven by monoculture and profit driven cropping.
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Comparisons between individual P. lanceolata or B. napus plants in monoculture and interspecific competition were made.
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Because she associates monoculture with a masculine wish to dominate -- and sees it as threatening both small farmers and biodiversity in the name of temporarily higher productivity -- Vandana has been called an ecofeminist, a term attributed to the late Francoise d'Eaubonne describing someone resistant to abuse of either women or mother nature, and adds in empathy for the small farmer in developing countries.
John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 3: Small Farmers, Ecofeminism, Vandana Shiva
