Communities of ground-dwelling arthropods in conventional and transgenic maize: background data for the post-market environmental monitoring

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/15:43888949

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jen.12160" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jen.12160</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jen.12160" target="_blank" >10.1111/jen.12160</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Communities of ground-dwelling arthropods in conventional and transgenic maize: background data for the post-market environmental monitoring

Original language description

To verify the validity of concerns about environmental safety of maize expressing insecticidal Cry toxins (referred to as Bt maize), we compared communities of ground beetles (Carabidae), rove beetles (Staphylinidae) and spiders (Araneae) in plots planted either with Bt maize cultivar YieldGard or with the non-transgenic parental cultivar Monumental. Each cultivar was grown on 5 plots of 0.5 ha for three consecutive years. To increase the field load of Cry toxin, the fully grown maize of the first studyyear was shredded to small pieces that were ploughed into the soil. Arthropods were collected in pitfall traps and determined to species level. The abundance and species richness of all studied groups greatly varied over the season and between the seasons but without statistically significant differences between the Bt and non-Bt plots, except for a slightly higher number of rove beetle species on Bt plots in the second year of study. A single spider species and six ground beetle specie

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Applied Entomology

ISSN

0931-2048

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

139

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

31-45

UT code for WoS article

000347709200004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84921995759