- Biology and ecology of weeds, integrated weed control, and related topics
- Scientific information exchange about all topics related to herbology
- Building networks not only with herbologists, but with colleagues of adjacent disciplines as well (like ecologists, geobotanists, vegetation specialist, conservationists, etc.)
- Hosting conferences beyond working group meetings (like the German Conference on Weed Biology and Weed Control, www.unkrauttagung.de)
- Excursions and fieldtrips to deepen special knowledge
- Herbicide resistance
- “New” weed species (neophyte invasive weeds, poisonous weeds, perennial weeds, previous known weeds with re-growing relevance)
- Weed mapping (occurrence and growing of weeds)
- Cultivation systems and weed infestation / integrated weed control
- Population and dispersions-dynamics / weed-ecology
- Biodiversity
- Weed control and environment
Cooperationpartners
Since 2012, the working group, together with the Julius Kühn-Institute Braunschweig and the Technische Universität Braunschweig, has been organizing and co-hosting the German Conference on Weed Biology and Weed Control ("Unkrauttagung").
Important external links
- www.iwss.info (International Weed Science Society)
- www.wssa.net (Weed Science Society of America)
- www.ewrs.org (European Weed Science Society)
- www.weedscience.com (globale Datenbank über herbizidresistente Unkräuter)
- www.hracglobal.com (Herbizidresistenz – Einteilung der herbiziden Wirkstoffe)