0 the practice of growing only one crop or keeping only one type of animal on an area of farm land: --
Globalization has imposed a dull monoculture, which swamps national traditions and eccentricities.
These vast monocultures have replaced important ecosystems.
Extensive irrigation for corn monoculture depletes water resources.
Condensed tannin concentration of rhizomatous and nonrhizomatous birdsfoot trefoil in grazed mixtures and monocultures.
Patterns of ingestive behaviour of sheep continuously stocked on monocultures of ryegrass or white clover.
A fundamental question concerning crop diversification is which mechanisms determine pest population size in polycultures compared to monocultures.
Until now, most of the diversity studies have focused on rainforest ecosystems and have neglected monocultures like oil palm plantations.
The yield of cultivated plants is threatened by competition and destruction from pests, especially when grown in large-scale monocultures or with heavy fertilizer applications.
Therefore, grass monocultures, grass and white clover mixtures and grass, white clover and forbs mixtures were established in the field.
Much research is now directed to the vegetative propagation of high-yielding clones, despite the potential danger of growing genetically identical monocultures over wide areas.
A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
