Effects of insecticide-treated and lepidopteran-active Bt transgenic sweet corn on the abundance and diversity of arthropods

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1254-1268

  Rose, Robyn ^a   Dively, Galen P ^b  

^a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b 4112 Plant Sciences Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bt sweet corn; Cry1Ab; Nontarget; Principal response curves

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYHALOTHRIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; INSECTICIDE; NITRILE; PYRETHROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; INSECTICIDE; MAIZE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; MAIZE; METABOLISM; POPULATION DENSITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIODIVERSITY; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDES; LEPIDOPTERA; NITRILES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULATION DENSITY; PYRETHRINS; ZEA MAYS;

ARTHROPODA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ZEA MAYS;

EID: 35648952276     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[1254:EOIALB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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