Wednesday, December 12, 2001: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

California Room(Convention Center, Level 1)

Informal Conference: Ecological Impact of Transgenic Bt Crops: Results of Farm-scale Field Research

Session Chair(s): Graham P. Head
Galen Dively
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:10 AM0746Scale-dependent ecological effects: Implications for study design and analysis
Paul Jepson
8:50 AM0747Side-effects of conventional and biological insecticides and transgenic Bt on non-target arthropods in field corn in France
Marco Candolfi
9:30 AMBreak
9:50 AM0748Field evaluation of Bt corn pollen on monarch butterflies: Understanding the impacts of pollen from Bt crops on non-target organisms
Mark Sears
10:10 AM0749Ecological impact of transgenic Bt corn and corn phenology on natural enemy populations in field corn
Clinton P. Pilcher, John Obrycki, Marlin E. Rice
10:30 AM0750Ecological impacts of conventional insecticides and transgenic Bt on the invertebrate community in sweet corn
Galen Dively, Robyn Rose
10:50 AM0751Insecticide use, predaceous arthropod populations, and pest impact in conventional and Bt cotton in the southeastern United States
Samuel Turnipseed, Aaron Hagerty
11:10 AM0752Quantifying non-target effects of Bt cotton: A case study from Australia
Gary Fitt, Lewis Wilson
11:30 AMConcluding Remarks

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