Diversity of arthropod communities in transgenic Bt cotton and nontransgenic cotton agroecosystems
Diversity of arthropod communities in transgenic Bt cotton and nontransgenic cotton agroecosystems
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DOI:
10.1603/0046-225x-32.2.270
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发表时间:
2003-04-01
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1.7
通讯作者:
Yardim, EN
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作者:
Men, XY;Ge, F;Yardim, EN
In a 3-yr field experiment, possible effects of Bt transgenic cotton plants expressing cry1A(c) gene from Bacillus thrungiensis Berliner variety kurstaki on diversities of arthropod communities and pest and natural enemy were assessed in insecticide treated and untreated cotton fields,as measured by index. The treatments included: 1) nontransgenic cotton with no insecticide treatment (nontransgenic), 2) nontransgenic cotton with insecticide treatments (nontransgenic + insecticide) 3) transgenic Bt. cotton with no insecticide treatment (Bt-cotton) and 4) transgenic Bt-cotton with insecticide treatmements (Bt-cotton+insecticide). The results indicated that Bt-cotton increascd the diversity of arthropod communities and pest sub-communities: however, it decreased the diversities of natural enemy subcommunities. Insecticide treatments increased diversities of communities and sub-communities of arthropods in both transgenic Bt-cotton and nontransgenic cotton agroecosystems, but the increase may be all artifact of increased evenness through mortality of insecticide-targeted species.