Information system for monitoring environmental impacts of genetically modified organisms

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1479-1490

  Reuter, Hauke ^a   Middelhoff, Ulrike ^a,b   Graef, Frieder ^c,d   Verhoeven, Richard ^e   Batz, Thomas ^g   Weis, Martin ^f   Schmidt, Gunther ^h   Schröder, Winfried ^h   Breckling, Broder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety   (Germany)

^c Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^e University of Hohenheim ^*  (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^g FRAUNHOFER IOSB   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cause effect hypotheses; Environmental impact; Environmental risk assessment; Genetically modified organism; Information system; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77955658047     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-010-0334-y     Document Type: Article

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