defoliation
- Subject Category
- F Plant Science and Plant Products
- H Health and Pathology
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/12578.rdf
- Scope Note
- Use for the loss of leaf area by pests, disease, grazing animals, wind, storms, pollution, drought or other stresses. Includes simulated defoliation; For the physiological foliage loss in response to natural environmental cycles USE leaf abscission; For the intentional defoliation of plants by agrochemicals USE defoliants.
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/12578
- Used For
- artificial defoliation
- simulated defoliation
- USE FOR And Type
- insect defoliation
- Broader Term
- plant damage
- Related Term
- defoliants
- defoliating insects
- herbivores
- leaf abscission
- leaf area
- leaves
- wildfire disease
- Spanish
- defoliación
- Term Number
- 12578