Agriculture. Genetically modified crops and farmland biodiversity.
The debate about genetically modified crops that are resistant to herbicides and their effects on the environment rages on. In their Perspective, Firbank and Forcella discuss a new model (Watkinson et al.) that seeks to calculate the impact of genetically modified herbicide-resistant sugar beet on growth of the weed Chenopodium album and on the skylark, which feeds on the seeds of this weed.
Firbank
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LG
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria LA11 6JU, UK. lgf@ceh.ac.uk
Forcella
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F
D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D019663:Chenopodiaceae / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics*; D017753:Ecosystem; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D006540:Herbicides; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012639:Seeds; D020308:Songbirds; D006113:United Kingdom
D006540:Herbicides