Biodiversity Monitoring in Switzerland: What can we learn for general surveillance of GM crops?

Journal fur Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit

Volumn 1, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 37-41

  Bühler, Christoph ^a  

^a Hintermann and Weber SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Baseline monitoring; Biodiversity monitoring; General surveillance; Genetically modified plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845671311     PISSN: 16615751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00003-006-0067-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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