Abstract:In order to explore the influence of ricecrayfish ecosystems on weed in paddy fields,the characteristics of weed community changes and grass control effect in paddy fields with different years of ricecrayfish ecosystem were studied with ecological approaches to plant communities. This paper studied the differences of weed diversity between rice monoculture and ricecrayfish coculture in 1 year,2 years,4 years and 9 years. Field experiments were conducted to investigate the changes of weed species,weed quantity and weed coverage in fields and ridges after a complete 1year ricecrayfish coculture system. The results showed that the indexes of weed biodiversity in ricecrayfish coculture systems had a trend of decreasing first and then increasing with the increase of years. The Simpson index and Shannon diversity index under CK treatment had the highest weed dominance,which was significantly different from ricecrayfish treatments. The RC4 treatment had the lowest weed dominance. The evenness index of Pielou treated by RC9 has the highest evenness,which is not significantly different from that of CK but significantly different from that of other treatments. The total number of weeds in the sample plots with different years of ricecrayfish coculture system decreased first and then increased with the increase of the number of years,which were significantly lower than those treated with CK. The importance values (I values)of different weeds had different regularities with the increase of ricecrayfish cocultivation years. The I values of Leptochloa chinensis,Echinochhloa crausgalli,Paspalum paspaloides and Fimbristylis dichotoma decreased first and then increased with the increase of years. The I values of Mazus japonicus,Alternanthera philoxeroides,Eclipta prostrata and Monochoriav aginalis in ricecrayfish cocultivation paddy fields were smaller than those in rice monoculture paddy fields and decreased year by year. After 1 year ricecrayfish coculture farming,the number of weed species,weed individuals and weed coverage in the paddy field and the ridge were significantly reduced. The results showed that shortterm ricecrayfish coculture significantly improved the weed control effect. Longterm ricecrayfish coculture gradually formed a new weed community structure,and corresponding weed control measures need to be taken.