polyculture
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a culture that is the same in many different places: 单一文化
Globalization has imposed a dull monoculture, which swamps national traditions and eccentricities. 全球化造成了沉闷的单一文化，淹没了不同的民族传统和特色。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Areas of land where crops are grown
bottomland
corn circle
cornfield
cotton belt
crop circle
field
non-cultivation
non-irrigated
orchard
paddock
paddy field
plough
rice paddy
set something aside
terrace
uncultivated
unhedged
unirrigated
vertical farm
vineyard

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Farming - general words
Lifestyles & their study

Examples of monoculture

monoculture
Patterns of ingestive behaviour of sheep continuously stocked on monocultures of ryegrass or white clover.
Condensed tannin concentration of rhizomatous and nonrhizomatous birdsfoot trefoil in grazed mixtures and monocultures.
Similarly, more diverse pathogen populations are found in natural ecosystems where plant diversity is high, compared to monocultures in conventional agroecoystems26,31,49.
Changes in the decomposer community when converting spruce monocultures to mixed spruce/beech stands.
Over those two years the monocultures produced signi®cantly more than the intercropped treatments.
In general, arthropod population trends in no-till alfalfa-wheat intercrops were similar to those in alfalfa monocultures.
Rain forests in the tropics are rapidly undergoing clear-felling, and either being replanted with commercial monocultures or being converted to different landuses.
Small amounts of alfalfa were harvested in wheat strips and wheat monocultures, presumably due to the field being in continuous alfalfa cultivation for 4 years prior to planting wheat.
Most of the plantations were monocultures.
Fertilized grass monocultures and unfertilized grass-clover mixtures containing 0.20 of white clover are very common in farming practice, whereas such high proportions of non-legume forbs in permanent grasslands are rare.
Competition and stand structure in some even-aged plant monocultures.
The lack of ecological guidance that promote monocultures and intensive use of agrochemicals need to be evaluated critically and used in a manner that does not destroy sustainability and stability.
They have assembled a comprehensive account of the way systems of multiple cropping, ubiquitous in tropical agriculture, can make more ecient use of rainfall and radiation than monocultures.
Perhaps the most thoroughly studied example of soil suppressiveness, the decline of take-all spontaneously occurs in monocultures of susceptible wheat after 4-6 or more years of continuous cropping16.
The intent of the crops in the cropping system will help determine which crops should be used, and whether they should be seeded as monocultures or polycultures.
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