Responses of plants and invertebrate trophic groups to contrasting herbicide regimes in the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1439, 2003, Pages 1899-1913

  Hawes, C ^a   Haughton, A J ^b   Osborne, J L ^b   Roy, D B ^c   Clark, S J ^b   Perry, J N ^b   Rothery, P ^c   Bohan, D A ^b   Brooks, D R ^b   Champion, G T ^d   Dewar, A M ^d   Heard, M S ^c   Woiwod, I P ^b   Daniels, R E ^c   Young, M W ^a   Parish, A M ^a   Scott, R J ^c   Firbank, L G ^c   Squire, G R ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d Broom's Barn Research Station   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arable systems; Functional groups; Invertebrates; Resource limitation; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; HERBICIDE; INVERTEBRATE; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; BRASSICA NAPUS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0242654339     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1406     Document Type: Article

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