Large-Area Effects of GM-Crop Cultivation

Large-Area Effects of GM-Crop Cultivation: Theorie in Der Oekologie, cartea 16

This book presents the results of the GMLS II conference on -Implications of GM-Crop Cultivation at Large Spatial Scales-, held in Bremen in March 2010. The meeting was a platform to discuss ecological, agricultural and economic implications of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and to present new developments in risk assessment and monitoring. Approaches in co-existence regulations and nature protection standards are presented as well as legal challenges and resolutions on national and on EU-level. The book collects 30 contributions written by specialists in science, administration and jurisprudence from Europe as well as Africa, Central America, and Russia."

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Contents: Werner Kratz/Christina Mante/Frieder Hofmann/Ulrich Schlechtriemen/Ulrike Kuhn/Steffi Ober/Rudolph Vögel: Exposure of maize harvest by-products to aquatic ecosystems and protected nature reserves in Brandenburg, Germany - Wiebke Züghart: Networks and environmental observation programs as a tool for general surveillance - first experience and future requirements - Gilles-Eric Séralini/Joël Spiroux de Vendomois/Dominique Cellier/Robin Mesnage/Emilie Clair: Genetically modified crop consumption at large scale: Possible negative health impacts due to holes in assessment. Overview of the safety studies of GMOs performed on mammals - Robin Mesnage/Emilie Clair/Gilles-Eric Séralini: Roundup® in genetically modified plants: Regulation and toxicity in mammals - Jana Seeger/Broder Breckling/Juliane Filser: Seedling emergence of oilseed rape (B. napus L.) and wild relatives on ruderal soils - Kathrin Pascher/Dietmar Moser/Stefan Dullinger/Leopold Sachslehner/Patrick Gros/Norbert Sauberer/Andreas Traxler/Georg Grabherr/Thomas Frank: Setup, efforts and significance of a GMO monitoring program - An Austrian case study - Claudia Bethwell/Frieder Graef/Ulrich Stachow/Hans-Jürgen Müller/Frank Eulenstein: Prioritizing GMO monitoring sites in dynamic cultivation systems and their environment - a conceptual on-farm approach - Christiane Eschenbach/Wilhelm Windhorst/Andreas Rinker: Potential GM-maize cropping in Schleswig-Holstein I: Spatial heterogeneity of GM cultivation (Scenarios) - Christiane Eschenbach/Broder Breckling/Andreas Rinker/Wilhelm Windhorst: Potential GM-maize cropping in Schleswig-Holstein II: Model and GIS based approaches to estimate the GM-share in conventional maize yield - Lukas Kleppin/Gunther Schmidt/Winfried Schröder: WebGIS as a tool for GMO monitoring support and for identification of potential coexistence problems due to GMO cultivation - Chris Viljoen/Lukeshni Chetty: An African perspective of GM maize gene flow - Denis Worlanyo Aheto: Proposal for large-scale regional monitoring of genetically modified maize crops in small-scale agricultural systems in Africa - Peter Wagner: Influence of GM-crop cultivation on local apiculture and floral environment - Maren Langhof/Bernd Hommel/Alexandra Hüsken/Aldona Jarzmik/Joachim Schiemann/Peter Wehling/Gerhard Rühl: Effect of two different gap crops on pollen-mediated gene flow in maize - Geoffrey Squire/Mark Young/Alison Karley: Comparative ecological effects of GM and other innovations in maritime arable-grass production systems - Gillian Banks/Mark W. Young/Geoffrey R. Squire: Demography of feral oilseed rape over 11 years in an agricultural region - Gunther Schmidt/Broder Breckling: The Triffid case: A short résumé on the re-discovery of a de-registered GMO - Francisca Acevedo Gasman: Monitoring maize diversity in Mexico for decision making - Sabine Prescher/Joachim Schiemann/Alexandra Hüsken: Study of maize fields and their surroundings in European regions regarding the suitability for coexistence of different maize cultivars - Rosa Binimelis/Iliana Monterroso/Mariel Vilella: Is there any room for alternatives? Socio-economic implications of GMOs cultivation at large-scale - Case study in Spain - Christiane Eschenbach/Wilhelm Windhorst: Development of the indicator «Genetic engineering in agriculture» - Christoph Then: New pest in crop caused by large scale cultivation of Bt corn - Morten Gylling: The Danish coexistence regulation and the Danish farmers attitude towards GMO - Vincenzo Pavone/Joanna Goven/Riccardo Guarino: From risk assessment to in-context trajectory evaluation: GMOs and their social implications - Natalia Sirina/Christiane Eschenbach/Wilhelm

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Broder Breckling is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bremen and research scientist at the University of Vechta. He organised various research projects on ecology, risk assessment and modelling of genetically modified crops. Together with Richard Verhoeven, science journalist in Bremen, he initiated several publications and international conferences on GMO.