Ecological risk assessment of transgenic pasture plants: A community gradient modelling approach

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1077-1089

  Godfree, Robert C ^a   Young, Andrew G ^a   Lonsdale, W Mark ^a   Woods, Matthew J ^a   Burdon, Jeremy J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fitness; Genetically modified organism; Grassland; Invasion; Risk assessment; Seed dormancy; Transgenic; Trifolium subterraneum; Vegetation management

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; PASTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEUM;

EID: 7044247908     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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