A comparison of arthropod communities in transgenic Bt and conventional cotton in Australia

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1224-1241

  Whitehouse, M E A ^a   Wilson, L J ^a   Fitt, G P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Beneficals; Biodiversity; Cry1Ac; Helicoverpa

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COTTON; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARTHROPODA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CHLOROPIDAE; CICADELLIDAE; DIPTERA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HELICOVERPA; HEMIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NABIDAE;

EID: 26444482083     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/34.5.1224     Document Type: Article

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