Modelling in the light of uncertainty of key parameters: A call to exercise caution in field predictions of Bt-maize effects

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1708, 2011, Pages 980-981

  Lang, A ^a   Brunzel, S ^b   Dolek, M ^c   Otto, M ^d   Theissen B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c Ecological Research and Planning Geyer and Dolek   (Germany)

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

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; INSECT; MAIZE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOXIC ORGANISM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BUTTERFLY; EUROPE; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOTH; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BUTTERFLIES; ENDOTOXINS; EUROPE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN; RISK ASSESSMENT; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79958288795     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2085     Document Type: Article

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