0 the practice of growing only one crop or keeping only one type of animal on an area of farm land:
Extensive irrigation for corn monoculture depletes water resources.
These vast monocultures have replaced important ecosystems.
Globalization has imposed a dull monoculture, which swamps national traditions and eccentricities.
Agroecological concepts are then introduced and applied to monocultures, intercropping and agroforestry.
Furthermore, genes vulnerable to 'boom and bust' cycles are generally short-lived when deployed in monocultures.
Further, genes deployed in monocultures of single cultivars may be more vulnerable to 'boom and bust' cycles.
Especially under low input conditions, the agronomic performances of species mixtures have been reported to be superior to those of monocultures.
In the present study, we examine possible underlying behavioural mechanisms that contribute to the difference in abundance of insects in poly- versus monocultures.
If we have tended to see sugar and coffee as monocultures, for this period at least we are wrong.
Both strip-crops and row intercrops can be considered more ecologically complex systems than traditional monocultures.
A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
