Motivations and barriers to integrated management of annual bluegrass in sports fields: US survey findings

IF 6 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI:10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128877

David E. Ervin , George B. Frisvold , Jennifer H. Allen , Aaron J. Patton , James T. Brosnan , Rebecca Grubbs Bowling , Mathew T. Elmore , Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan , James D. McCurdy , Travis W. Gannon , John E. Kaminski , Alec R. Kowaleski , J. Scott McElroy , Patrick McCullough , Bryan Unruh , Shawn Askew , Lambert McCarty

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Maintaining turfgrass quality is key to deriving ecological, social, and cultural ecosystem services from urban sports fields. Annual bluegrass, the most troublesome weed in U.S. turfgrass systems and a problematic weed in Australasia and Europe, poses serious risks to sustaining these services. Recent U.S. focus groups have documented turfgrass professionals’ concerns about annual bluegrass, particularly the evolution of herbicide resistance and opportunities for improved management. However, comprehensive scientific data have been lacking to test the scale and depth of the concerns and identify significant factors affecting turfgrass manager decisions to adopt remedies. The purpose of this study is to help fill those gaps in scientific knowledge with findings from the first national survey of U.S. sports and recreation turfgrass professionals. Integrated weed management (IWM), a holistic weed management approach that blends chemical and non-chemical practices, is key to slowing the evolution of herbicide resistance, but it meets stiff challenges in practical application. A multivariate regression model tested for factors hypothesized to affect the count of diverse practices used by U.S. sports turfgrass managers. Significant positive influences on practice adoption include the number of employees in a sports field operation, degree of concern about herbicide resistance, Extension educational program attendance, and length of tenure in the sports sector. Insufficient time, a perceived lack of non-chemical options, and a higher education level decrease the total count of practices. The findings support three actions to advance IWM for sports turfgrass: (1) credible and consistent information programs on herbicide resistance risks; (2) development of more non-chemical practices and new herbicide MOAs, and (3) public/private transdisciplinary collaborations to integrate the experiential knowledge of turfgrass professionals with frontier science.

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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening FORESTRY-

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11.70

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12.50%

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289

审稿时长

70 days

期刊介绍： Urban Forestry and Urban Greening is a refereed, international journal aimed at presenting high-quality research with urban and peri-urban woody and non-woody vegetation and its use, planning, design, establishment and management as its main topics. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening concentrates on all tree-dominated (as joint together in the urban forest) as well as other green resources in and around urban areas, such as woodlands, public and private urban parks and gardens, urban nature areas, street tree and square plantations, botanical gardens and cemeteries. The journal welcomes basic and applied research papers, as well as review papers and short communications. Contributions should focus on one or more of the following aspects: -Form and functions of urban forests and other vegetation, including aspects of urban ecology. -Policy-making, planning and design related to urban forests and other vegetation. -Selection and establishment of tree resources and other vegetation for urban environments. -Management of urban forests and other vegetation. Original contributions of a high academic standard are invited from a wide range of disciplines and fields, including forestry, biology, horticulture, arboriculture, landscape ecology, pathology, soil science, hydrology, landscape architecture, landscape planning, urban planning and design, economics, sociology, environmental psychology, public health, and education.