Alexander Menegat

My research focuses on the impact of agricultural practices on agroecosystem functioning. More specifically, I am interested in how diversifying cropping systems affects the composition of arable plant communities and their functional diversity. Among other methods, I use functional interpretation of botanical surveys to illustrate the impact of agricultural practices on weed communities.  To translate this knowledge into agricultural practice, I employ participatory methods, bringing together farmers, extension agents and researchers to design and evaluate cropping systems in short- and long-term field experiments. Alongside my core research areas, I am interested in the environmental, social and economic implications of agroecosystem management.

I am leading the following research projects:

1. Farmer driven development of economically and environmentally sustainable weed control strategies against herbicide resistant blackgrass (Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning).
2. IMPULSE - Fostering organic cultivation of grain legumes; a multi-scale feasibility study for soybean and lupin production in Sweden (FORMAS).
3. PADILSO - Participatory design of innovative crop management strategies for lupine and soybean production in organic farming (Ekhaga Foundation).
4. Preparing for the future: sustainable cropping systems without glyphosate (SLF).
5. Facilitating reduced and no-tillage organic grain legume production systems (EkoForsk).
6. Sustainable control of grass weeds in intensive cereal cropping systems (long-term trial financed by the NJ faculty, SLU).
7. EcoServ: Long-term evaluation of agroecosystem functioning along a cropping system diversification gradient (long-term trial financed by the NJ faculty). 

I am leading the Master course "Sustainable Plant Production". The course is part of the Master program in Plant Biology for Sustainable Production.

• Associate Editor for Agronomy for Sustainable Development
• Coordinator of the Weed Vegetation and Biodiversity working group of the Eurpean Weed Research Society (EWRS)
• Coordinator of the herbicide resistance sub-group of the Nordic Baltic Resistance Action Group, NORBARAG

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0735-3293