No unintended impacts of transgenic pine (Pinus radiata) trees on above ground invertebrate communities

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1359-1368

  Schnitzler, F R ^a   Burgess, Elisabeth P J ^a   Kean, Aliesha M ^a   Philip, Bruce A ^b   Barraclough, Emma I ^a   Malone, Louise A ^a   Walter, Christian ^c  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry   (New Zealand)

^c SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

ecological impact; environmental risk assessment; genetic engineering; transgenic eld trial

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HERBIVORE; INVERTEBRATE; NONTARGET ORGANISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; HEMIPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PARASITOLOGY; PINE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; HEMIPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PINUS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

HEMIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 77955372132     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09302     Document Type: Article

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