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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Front. Agron.</journal-id>
<journal-title>Frontiers in Agronomy</journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2673-3218</issn>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/fagro.2022.1005093</article-id>
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<subject>Agronomy</subject>
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<subject>Original Research</subject>
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<article-title>Roadsides and neighboring field edges harbor different weed compositions</article-title>
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<surname>Simard</surname>
<given-names>Marie-Jos&#xe9;e</given-names>
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<sup>*</sup>
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<surname>Maheux</surname>
<given-names>Lydia</given-names>
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<institution>Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Research and Development Centre</institution>, <addr-line>Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC</addr-line>, <country>Canada</country>
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<p>Edited by: Simerjeet Kaur, Punjab Agricultural University, India</p>
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<p>Reviewed by: Aleksandra Savic, Institute for Plant Protection and Environment (IZBIS), Serbia; Ahmet Uludag, &#xc7;anakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey</p>
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<p>*Correspondence: Marie-Jos&#xe9;e Simard, <email xlink:href="mailto:marie-josee.simard@agr.gc.ca">marie-josee.simard@agr.gc.ca</email>
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<p>This article was submitted to Weed Management, a section of the journal Frontiers in Agronomy</p>
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<day>10</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<year>2022</year>
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<volume>4</volume>
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<day>27</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<day>26</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<abstract>
<p>Roadsides are vectors of spread for invasive and other non-native plants. Therefore, fields located along roadsides could harbour more weeds and less native species compared to more isolated fields. To determine if field edges that are close to roadsides have different floras compared to more isolated fields, we surveyed 26 field pairs (52 fields) located in the province of Qu&#xe9;bec, Canada. For each pair, one field could be directly accessed by a major paved road (AD fields) while the other field, located on the same farm, was more isolated (IS fields) and could only be accessed <italic>via</italic> a secondary farm road. Two borders of these fields (IS) were sampled as well as the parallel (AD-pa) and the perpendicular border (AD-pe) of A fields and the adjacent roadside (RO). Plant species present along these field borders were recorded and classified (e.g. non-native, native, monocot, dicot, annual, perennial) in 0.5 m<sup>2</sup> quadrats located every 20 m. The number of common ragweed (<italic>Ambrosia artemisiifolia</italic>) plants was also noted. Analyses included linear mixed models, generalized estimating equations models and multiple correspondence analyses. All border types had equivalent species richness. Roadsides had higher densities of common ragweed and lower occurrences of native and perennial species compared to field edges. All analyses indicate roadside floras are different from field edge floras but field edges close to roadsides were similar to those of more isolated fields. Results do not support a simple diffusive spread of roadside plants into field crop edges since field edges located along roadsides did not harbour more common ragweed plants or more roadside species.</p>
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<kwd>field crop border</kwd>
<kwd>native plant</kwd>
<kwd>paved road</kwd>
<kwd>species richness</kwd>
<kwd>ragweed (<italic>Ambrosia artemisiifolia</italic>)</kwd>
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<title>Introduction</title>    <p>Roadsides generally harbour more invasive and non-native species than the adjacent landscapes (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">Tyser and Worley, 1992</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">Hansen and Clevenger, 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">Barbosa et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>). Species are dispersed during road construction, maintenance and use as propagules travel on and in vehicles and are dispersed by vehicle airflow (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B40">Taylor et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">Ansong and Pickering, 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">von der Lippe et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B34">Rauschert et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B27">Khan et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>). Plants also spread without human assistance along the edge of these corridors where light conditions, disturbance and soil properties are altered (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B18">Forman and Alexander, 1998</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">Spellerberg, 1998</xref>). Roads can therefore facilitate the spread of invasive and other non-native species including weeds into the adjacent landscape (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">Tyser and Worley, 1992</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">Gelbard and Belnap, 2003</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">Joly et&#xa0;al., 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B31">Meunier and Lavoie, 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">Follak et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B38">Speziale et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>). These species can reduce biodiversity and modify ecosystems (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B21">Gaertner et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>). Although there are multiple cases of increased species richness by invasive and non-native plants (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B35">Sax et&#xa0;al., 2002</xref>), especially in agricultural landscapes (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B29">L&#xe1;zaro-Lobo and Ervin, 2019</xref>), these additions are not necessarily beneficial (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">Benvenuti, 2007</xref>). Although the impact of road networks on natural landscapes and grasslands has been evaluated (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">Tyser and Worley, 1992</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B25">Irl et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>), few studies have evaluated the effect of the proximity of paved roads on the composition of intensively managed field crop borders.</p>
<p>In the province of Qu&#xe9;bec, Canada, common ragweed (<italic>Ambrosia artemisiifolia</italic> L., Asteraceae) is particularly abundant along roadsides, especially along paved roads where densities can average 16 plants m<sup>-2</sup> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">Simard and Benoit, 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">Joly et&#xa0;al., 2011</xref>). The species is native to central North America and invasive in European countries such as Austria, France, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland as well as China and Australia (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">Bassett and Crompton, 1975</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">Gaudeul et&#xa0;al., 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">Afonin et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>). In Austria, 153 to 728 seeds m<sup>-2</sup> are reported to be representative of roadside densities (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B32">Milakovic et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>). The species is still increasing in abundance in Eastern Canada (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B28">Lavoie et&#xa0;al., 2007</xref>) and abundant roadside populations could potentially increase the likelihood of finding the species in adjacent field borders (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">Simard and Benoit, 2010</xref>). Common ragweed seeds do not have specialised dispersal structures, such as plumes and wings, and are mainly spread by passive transport on soil stuck on vehicles or as a contaminant of manure, seed and feed (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">Bassett and Crompton, 1975</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B19">Frick et&#xa0;al., 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Chauvel et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>). If seeds on roadsides get stuck on tractor wheels or other equipment, most of these will disperse in the first field the tractor goes through. Water drained from roadsides can also flood into adjacent fields and smaller common ragweed seeds do float (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Fumanal et&#xa0;al., 2007</xref>). Moreover, roadside mowing has been shown to spread common ragweed seeds (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">Vitalos and Karrer, 2009</xref>). The species is also very competitive and resistant to various environmental factors prevailing along roadsides such as high de-icing salt concentrations (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">DiTommaso, 2004</xref>) and heavy metal contaminants (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">Bae et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>).</p>
<p>Our goal was to determine if field borders that are adjacent to roadsides had higher densities of common ragweed compared to fields that are more isolated and if a higher occurrence of non-native species was observed along with a lower account of native species in these adjacent field borders. Our main hypotheses were that ragweed density would be higher in field borders adjacent to roadsides and that these borders have more non-native and less native species compared to those of more isolated fields.</p>
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<sec id="s2" sec-type="materials|methods">
<title>Materials and methods</title>
<p>From 2008 to 2012, 26 field pairs located along the agricultural area of the province of Qu&#xe9;bec, Canada were selected and surveyed once (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;1</bold>
</xref>). Each field pair had to be on the same farm and as similar as possible (crop and soil type). One field had to be adjacent to a paved public road (field AD) and the other had to be accessible only by farm roads and be surrounded by other fields or forested land (field IS) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;2</bold>
</xref>). For each field, we recorded the crop grown, the herbicides applied, the presence of water in the ditches, the type of habitat on the other side of the border (forest, crop type, pasture etc.). A tabular view of the variables is presented in the <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM1">
<bold>Supplementary Table&#xa0;1</bold>
</xref>. The distance between the field border closest to the roadside and the roadside boundary was also recorded. For each field pair, all species present were recorded and the density of <italic>Ambrosia artemisiifolia</italic> was evaluated in 0.5 m x 1 m quadrats (longer quadrat edge perpendicular to road or field border) located every 20 m along 1-the roadside section bordering the adjacent field (RO), 2-the edge of the adjacent field parallel to the roadside (AD-pa), 3-the edge of the adjacent field perpendicular to the roadside (AD-pe), 4-a field edge of the isolated field (IS) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;2</bold>
</xref>). All sampling was done in July-August after herbicide applications. All the species recorded were classified either as native or non-native based on the Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">Brouillet et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>) or as a crop species. All species were also classified as monocotyledonous, dicotyledonous or other (non-flowering plants) and as annual, perennial or biennial based on available life-cycle descriptions in published Canadian floras. Some plants were recorded at the gender level when structures needed for species level identification (often flowers) were absent. Species richness was based on the sum of all species present. The number of unique species present in two consecutive quadrats was computed in order to present species richness per square meter.</p>
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<label>Figure&#xa0;1</label>
<caption>
<p>Location of field pairs (black circles, left map) and sampling area in Canada (grey square, right map).</p>
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<fig id="f2" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;2</label>
<caption>
<p>Schematic representation of field pairs (adjacent field and isolated field) and sampling transects (red dashed lines).</p>
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<sec id="s2_1">
<title>Statistical analyses</title>
<p>Database management and descriptive statistical analyses were performed using JMP Professional 15.0 Statistical Analysis Hardware (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC). Explanatory variables such as the type of bordering habitat on the other side of the transect or the herbicide applied had to be discarded due to the high number of different categories or low frequency of some categories. Common ragweed density and species counts [total and by type (weedy, native, perennial etc)] as a function of location (roadside, field border parallel to roadside, field border perpendicular to roadside, field border of field with no access to a public road) were evaluated using linear mixed models (proc MIXED) in SAS Version 9.4 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC). Fixed effects included location and random effects included producer, year, field and quadrat. Homogeneity of variance and normality of residuals were verified. Heterogeneous variances were modeled according to group when needed, logarithmic transformation was applied to common ragweed densities to meet these criteria, and means on raw data are presented. Statistical significance between multiple comparisons were adjusted with Bonferonni correction. For presence/absence data, a generalized estimating equations model was used with a logit link and binomial distribution to evaluate the effect of location on the frequency of species in different groups (classified as native, non-native, perennial etc., as above). To identify locations with similar weed frequency profiles and associations between weed frequencies we performed a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) on the species with a frequency of at least 5%. The Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a generalization of principal component analysis when the variables to be analyzed are categorical (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Abdi and Williams, 2010</xref>). We use weed category (species and presence/absence) as active variables and location as supplementary variables. We&#xa0;lused the R package FactoMineR for MCA analysis and the factoextra R package to help in interpretation and visualization. To support the classification generated by the multiple correspondence analysis, we also undertook a cluster analysis using the R package ClustOfVar (31).</p>
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<sec id="s3" sec-type="results">
<title>Results</title>
<p>A total of 1350 quadrats were sampled. Fields were cultivated in corn (39%), forage crops (26%), soybean (16%) or cereal (16%). The field border closest to the roadside was at an average distance of 8.58 m &#xb1;0.16 (STE). A total of 167 species were recorded. The most frequently recorded species along field borders were <italic>Taraxacum officinale</italic> (present in 54% of quadrats), followed by <italic>Equisetum arvense</italic> (44%), <italic>Trifolium repens</italic> (29%) and <italic>Vicia cracca</italic> (27%). On roadsides, the most frequently recorded species were <italic>Ambrosia artemisiifolia</italic> (61%), followed by grasses [(<italic>Elymus repens</italic> (42%) and <italic>Poa</italic> sp. (30%)], <italic>Trifolium arvense</italic> (26%), <italic>Plantago major</italic> (26%) and <italic>Matricaria</italic> sp. (23%). All the species recorded are listed in the <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM1">
<bold>Supplementary Table&#xa0;2</bold>
</xref>.</p>
<sec id="s3_1">
<title>Ragweed density</title>
<p>The type of border habitat had a significant effect on common ragweed abundance (p &lt; 0.001). Common ragweed abundance was 11 times higher along paved roads than along field borders (68.79 plants vs 6.23 plants m<sup>-2</sup>) but all field borders had equivalent numbers regardless of their location in an isolated field or in a field border close to a paved road, whether parallel or perpendicular to the road (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;3</bold>
</xref>).</p>
<fig id="f3" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;3</label>
<caption>
<p>Average common ragweed (<italic>Ambrosia artemisiifolia</italic>) density along paved roadsides and field borders. Different letters indicate significant differences at alpha=0.05, Error bars indicate &#xb1;STE.</p>
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<sec id="s3_2">
<title>Species richness and composition</title>
<p>Species richness was equivalent between habitats (p=0.253), averaging 9.88 &#xb1; 0.28 (STE) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f4">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;4</bold>
</xref>). The frequency of non-native species was also equivalent between all habitats (p=0.280), averaging 7.03 &#xb1; 0.11 (STE) per square meter. At an average of 2.13 &#xb1; 0.13 (STE), the frequency of native species was lower along roadsides (p=0.023) compared to field edges and all field edges had equivalent numbers of native species, averaging 2.53 &#xb1; 0.07 (STE). At an average of 5.18 &#xb1; 0.23, perennial species (p=0.001) were also less recorded along roadsides compared to field habitats who averaged at 6.29 &#xb1; 0.14 (STE) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f5">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;5</bold>
</xref>). MCA analyses done on a subsample of 29 species (species with frequencies lower than 5% in the entire dataset were excluded) also indicate the species composition of paved roads was different from that of field borders with a stronger association along the second axe (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f6">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;6</bold>
</xref>), supported by the cluster analysis (not shown), with the presence of <italic>Matricaria</italic> sp., <italic>Trifolium agrarium</italic>, <italic>Poa</italic> sp., <italic>Ambriosia artemisiifolia</italic> and <italic>Polygonum aviculare</italic> compared to the field borders. The field borders could not be clearly separated although isolated fields had a weak cluster of <italic>Oxalis stricta</italic>, <italic>Leucanthemum vulgare</italic>, <italic>Fragaria</italic> sp. and <italic>Cerastium fontanum</italic> (details not shown).</p>
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<label>Figure&#xa0;4</label>
<caption>
<p>Species richness along roadsides and field borders. Values are not significantly different (n.s. <italic>p</italic>=0.3285). Error bars indicate &#xb1;STE.</p>
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<label>Figure&#xa0;5</label>
<caption>
<p>Species richness of native and weedy/introduced species <bold>(A)</bold> as well as annual and perennial species <bold>(B)</bold> along roadsides and field borders. Different letters indicate significant differences at alpha=0.05 within plant type, Error bars indicate &#xb1;STE.</p>
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<label>Figure&#xa0;6</label>
<caption>
<p>Biplot of the two first components of the multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) carried out on the presence (_y) or absence (_n) of the most frequent species observed along paved roadsides (RO) and field borders (AD-pa, Ad-pe and IS, see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2"><bold>Figure&#xa0;2</bold></xref>). 1AMAG, <italic>Amaranthus</italic> sp; 1CIRG, <italic>Cirsium</italic> sp; 1MATG. <italic>Matricaria</italic> sp.; 1POAG, <italic>Poa</italic> sp; AMBEL, <italic>Ambrosia artemisiifolia</italic>; AGGRE, <italic>Elymus repens</italic>; BROIN,<italic>Bromus inermis</italic>; CHEAL, <italic>Chenopodium album</italic>; CHYLE, <italic>Leucanthemum vulgare</italic>; ECHCG, <italic>Echinochloa crus-galli</italic>, EQUAR, <italic>Equisetum arvense</italic>; LITHJA, <italic>Lathyrus japonicus</italic>; OXAST, <italic>Oxalis stricta</italic>; PAVSA,<italic>Pastinaca sativa</italic>; POLCO, <italic>Fallopia convolvulus</italic>; POLAV, <italic>Polygonum aviculare</italic>; SETFA, <italic>Setaria faberii</italic>; SETPU, <italic>Setaria pumila</italic>; SOOCA, <italic>Solidago Canadensis</italic>; TRFAU, <italic>Trifolium arvense</italic>; TRFRE, <italic>Trifolium repens</italic>; VICCR, <italic>Vicia cracca</italic>.</p>
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<sec id="s4" sec-type="discussion">
<title>Discussion</title>
<sec id="s4_1">
<title>Roadsides</title>
<p>Paved roadsides had equivalent species richness compared to field edges but could be distinguished from field borders by a ten fold higher density of common ragweed plants and a lower prevalence of native species and of perennial species. Higher common ragweed density along roadsides compared to field borders was expected (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">Simard and Benoit, 2010</xref>), especially since only paved roads were surveyed to increase the potential of finding evidence of non-native spread into field borders. Paved roads have been shown to harbour more non-native species than non-paved roads (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">Gelbard and Belnap, 2003</xref>) and more common ragweed (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">Joly et&#xa0;al., 2011</xref>). Roadsides floras are often not a subset of the surrounding vegetation (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">Corcos et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>) as they generate disturbed habitats where the establishment of perennial species is impeded (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">Albert et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>) and early successional species such as common ragweed establish and grow. Common ragweed plants can also germinate in high concentrations of roadside contaminants (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">DiTommaso, 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">Bae et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>). Car traffic and roadside mowing after seed formation will further increase the spread of roadside species (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">Christen and Matlack, 2006</xref>), as evidenced by empirical studies on common ragweed dispersal (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">Vitalos and Karrer, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">von der Lippe et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B30">Lemke et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>). Although non-native diversity along roadsides is possibly higher than in the surrounding vegetation (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">Tyser and Worley, 1992</xref>) and as been found to be negatively associated with native plant diversity (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B33">Peltzer and MacLeod, 2014</xref>), non-native diversity was not higher along the surveyed roadsides than in field crop borders. This could be explained by the fact that most weedy species in Canada are non-native (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Darbyshire, 2003</xref>) and that most fields were grown with annual crops (74% of surveyed fields), which are subject to higher disturbance regimes and open conditions facilitating weed growth compared to perennial crops. Roadsides are also planted with non-native and native turf-grass species that include <italic>Poa pratensis</italic> and perennial legumes such as <italic>Trifolium arvense</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">Bae et&#xa0;al., 2015</xref>), thus explaining their association with these species compared to field borders.</p>
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<sec id="s4_2">
<title>Field borders</title>
<p>Field borders, whether parallel or perpendicular to an adjacent roadside or along fields that were more isolated had equivalent species richness. Contrary to our hypothesis, field edges close to paved roadsides did not harbour higher densities of common ragweed or more non-native and less native species compared to those of more isolated fields and the orientation of the border to the roadside did not influence results. Moreover, field borders closer to roadsides were not clearly associated with different plant species compared to borders surrounding more isolated fields. Common ragweed densities and field edge species composition are probably modulated more by past and present weed control strategies in fields, or field edge characteristics, than the presence of bordering roadside populations. Additionally, weed populations have been shown not to follow simple diffusive dispersal patterns of spread because of stochasticity from human mediated dispersal (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B39">Sullivan et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">Barnaud et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>), especially given the long history of introduction of weedy species in the surveyed area (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">Bassett and Crompton, 1975</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B28">Lavoie et&#xa0;al., 2007</xref>). Results do not support a simple diffusive spread of roadside plants into field crop edges.</p>
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<sec id="s5" sec-type="data-availability">
<title>Data availability statement</title>
<p>The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM1">
<bold>Supplementary Material</bold>
</xref>. Further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.</p>
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<title>Author contributions</title>
<p>M-JS, funding acquisition, project administration, conceptualisation, data curation, partial analyses, and writing; LM data curation, review and editing. Both authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.</p>
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<p>This study was funded by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada grant E.1211.NZ.</p>
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<p>We thank Genevi&#xe8;ve B&#xe9;gin, Aline Philibert and all the students and producers who participated in the survey.</p>
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