Format:
Online-Ressource (VII, 119p)
,
online resource
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Biomedical and Life Sciences
ISBN:
9783034883177
Content:
The monitoring and surveillance of genetically modified higher plants (GMHP) is an area that is still lacking an established international monitoring program. This volume presents ideas and suggestions by focusing on procedures in composing such a program and methods for detection of transgene dispersal and of environmental effects when GM plants are cultivated. Objectives and procedures for monitoring and surveying present and new types of GM plants are described, including herbicide tolerance, insect resistance and changed agronomic performance. Other issues covered in this book include: detection of GM plant dispersal and hybridisation; agricultural use and large scale effects; habitat selection and community invasibility; baseline definition and the time perspective; effects on ecosystems, vegetation and organism groups; sampling designs; data analysis and relevant statistical methods. In a final chapter, conclusions and recommendations are presented
Note:
1 Introduction1.1 How to use this book -- 1.2 Biotechnology and new GM crops placed on the market -- 1.3 Risk assessment, monitoring and the EU directives -- 2 Environmental concerns and concepts -- 2.1 The risk of GMHP invasion -- 2.2 Ecological effects of GMHP -- 2.3 Concepts and definitions -- 2.4 List of relevant links for information on monitoring of GMHP -- 3 Monitoring and surveillance of GMHP dispersal and effects -- 3.1 Objectives for monitoring programs -- 3.2 Scheme for the process of monitoring GMHP -- 3.3 Approaches to monitoring -- 3.4 Factors that may make a community invasible -- 3.5 Suggestions for a tripartite monitoring program -- 3.6 Data analysis and evaluation of results -- 3.7 Extent of monitoring -- 3.8 Reassessment of established monitoring procedures -- 4 Perspectives of habitat selection -- 4.1 Background for habitat selection in Denmark and EU -- 4.2 Important factors for selection of exposed areas -- 4.3 Background for habitat selection in relation to GMHP-monitoring -- 4.4 Which habitats should be monitored? -- 4.5 General changes affecting plants and other organisms -- 4.6 Baseline definition -- 5 Agricultural use and effects of GMHP -- 5.1 Detection of adverse effects in cultivated fields -- 5.2 Effects and monitoring of GM crops used in large-scale farming -- 6 Dispersal of GMHP and transgenes -- 6.1 Detection of GMHP dispersal and invasion -- 6.2 Detection of hybridisation and transgene dispersal -- 7 Effect identification and detection -- 7.1 Effect types, identification and assessment -- 7.2 Assessment of effects on vegetation, ecosystem structure and function -- 7.3 Detection of effects on soil organisms -- 7.4 Detection of effects on aboveground organisms -- 7.5 Sampling designs and data analysis methods -- 8 Data analysis and evaluation -- 8.1 Statistical methods and tools -- 8.2 Use of modelling to assist monitoring -- 8.3 Evaluation, information management and policy making -- 9 Conclusions and recommendations -- 10 References -- 11 Subject index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783764362270
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783764362270
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783034883184
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-0348-8317-7
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