Journal of Ecology and Rural Environment ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 333-341.doi: 10.11934/j.issn.1673-4831.2018.04.006

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Effects of Transgenic Herbicide-Tolerate Maize on Biodiversity of Arthropod Communities in the Fields

HE Hao-peng1, REN Zhen-tao1, SHEN Wen-jing2, LIU Biao2, XUE Kun1,2   

  1. 1. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China;
    2. Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Nanjing 210042, China
  • Received:2017-07-26 Online:2018-04-25 Published:2018-04-17

Abstract:

For assessing the effects of transgenic glyphosate tolerance and glufosinate-ammonium tolerance maize C0010.1.1 on biodiversity of arthropod community, which supplied basic data for the studies of transgenic crop biosafety, in the isolated field the number of species and individuals in the arthropod communities were counted and the functional groups, biodiversity index, dominance index, evenness index and the community similarity were analyzed and compared in 2015. Compared to the non-transgenic maize counterpart 178 and conventional line Xianyu 335, the parameters, such as the number of species, biodiversity index, dominance index and evenness index, were similar in the trend over time with no significant difference. These results suggest that the arthropod community structures in the fields of the transgenic maize C0010.1.1, the counterpart 178 and the conventional line Xianyu 335 were equivalent, and no significant effects of genetically modified maize on field arthropod community were found.

Key words: maize (Zea mays), arthropod community, biodiversity, dominance index, evenness index

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