Publications

AMIGA project publications

• Equivalence analysis to support environmental safety assessment: Using nontarget organism count data from field trials with cisgenically modified potato
  Hilko van der Voet, Paul W. Goedhart, Jenny Lazebnik, Geert J. T. Kessel, Ewen Mullins, Joop J. A. van Loon, Salvatore Arpaia
  Ecology and Evolution, 9(5): 2863-2882, 2019
• Equivalence limit scaled differences for untargeted safety assessments: Comparative analyses to guard against unintended effects on the environment or human health of genetically modified maize
  Authors: Hilko van der Voet, Paul W. Goedhart, Esteban García-Ruiz, Concepción Escorial, Jana Tulinská
  Food and Chemical Toxicology, 125:540-548, 2019
• The Romanian experience and perspective on the commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops in Europe
  Author: Mihael Cristin Ichim
  Transgenic Research, 28(1):1–7, 2019
• A Spatio-Temporal Exposure-Hazard Model for Assessing Biological Risk and Impact
  Authors: Emily Walker, Melen Leclerc, Jean‐François Rey, Rémy Beaudouin, Samuel Soubeyrand, Antoine Messéan
  Risk Analysis 39(1):54-70, 2019
• Development and validation of IPM strategies for the cultivation of cisgenically modified late blight resistant potato
  Authors: Geert J.T.Kessel, Ewen Mullins, Albartus Evenhuis, Jeroen Stellingwerf, Vilma Ortiz Cortes, Sinead Phelan,Trudy van den Bosch, Marieke G.Förch, Paul Goedhart, Hilko van der Voet, Lambertus A.P.Lotz European Journal of Agronomy, 96:146-155, 2018
• Spatial exposure-hazard and landscape models for assessing the impact of GM crops on non-target organisms
  Authors: Melen Leclerc, Emily Walker, Antoine Messéan, Samuel Soubeyrand
  Science of The Total Environment, 624:470-479, 2018
• Unintended effects of a Phytophtora‑resistant cisgenic potato clone on the potato aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae and its parasitoid Aphidius ervi
  Authors: P. Cascone, M. Radkova, S. Arpaia, S. Errico, L.A.P. Lotz, R.A. Magarelli, D. Djilianov, E. Guerrieri
  Journal of Pest Science, 91(2):565–574, 2018
• Environmental risk assessment of blight-resistant potato: use of a crop model to quantify nitrogen cycling at scales of the field and cropping system
  Authors: Mark W. Young, Ewen Mullins, Geoffrey R. Squire
  Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24(26): 21434–21444, 2017
• Simulating changes in cropping practises in conventional and glyphosate-tolerant maize. I. Effects on weeds
  Authors:Nathalie Colbach, Alice Fernier, Valérie Le Corre, Antoine Messéan,Henri Darmency
  Environmental Science and Pollution Research 24(12):11582–11600, 2017
• Inoculation of susceptible and resistant potato plants with the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans: effects on an aphid and its parasitoid
  Authors: Jenny Lazebnik Marianne Tibboel Marcel Dicke Joop J.A. van Loon
  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 163(3): 305-314, 2017
• Quantifying Predation pressure in maize across Europe and in Argentina: an intercontinental comparison
  Authors: Marco Ferrante, Gábor L. Lövei, Lenka Minarcikova, Elena Larisa Tomescu, Giovanni Burgio, Ludovit Cagan, Mihael Cristin Ichim
  Insect Science 24(4): 528-542, 2017
• A review of the sentinel prey method as a way of quantifying invertebrate predation under field conditions
  Authors: Gábor L. Lövei, Marco Ferrante
  Insect Science, 24(4): 528-542, 2017
• Effects of a genetically modified potato on a non-target aphid are outweighed by cultivar differences
  Authors: Jenny Lazebnik, Salvatore Arpaia, Ferdinando Baldacchino, Paolo Banzato, Stefania Moliterni, Jack H. Vossen, Els M. van de Zande, Joop J. A. van Loon
  Journal of Pest Science, 90(3):855–864, 2017
• Arthropod Communities in Commercial Potato Fields
  Authors: Mariana Radkova, Plamen Kalushkov, Evgeni Chehlarov, Borislav Gueorguiev, Maria Naumova, Toshko Ljubomirov, Stefan Stoichev, Slavtcho Slavov, Dimitar Djilianov
  Comptes rendus de l’Academie bulgare des Sciences, 70(2), 2017

• Predators do not spill over from forest fragments to maize fields in a landscape mosaic in central Argentina
  Authors: Marco Ferrante, Ezequiel González, Gábor L. Lövei
  Ecology and Evolution, 7(19): 7699-7707, 2017
• Simulating changes in cropping practices in conventional and glyphosate-resistant maize. II. Weed impacts on crop production and biodiversity
  Authors: Nathalie Colbach, Henri Darmency, Alice Fernier, Sylvie Granger, Valérie Le Corre, Antoine Messéan.
  Environmental Science Pollution Research, 24(14):13121–13135, 2017
• Assessing environmental impacts of genetically modified plants on non-target organisms: The relevance of in planta studies
  Authors: Salvatore Arpaia, A. Nicholas E. Birch, Jozsef Kiss, Joop J.A. van Loon, Antoine Messéan, Marco Nuti, Joe N. Perry, Jeremy B. Sweet, Christoph C. Tebbe.
  Science of the Total Environment 583:123–132, 2017
• Body size inequality in ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabide) assemblages as a potential method to monitor environmental impacts of transgenic crops
  Authors: Davide di Grumo, Gabor L Lövei
  Periodicum Biologorum UDC 57:61, 118(3): 223–230, 2016
• A temporal assessment of nematode community structure and diversity in the rhizosphere of cisgenic Phytophthora infestans-resistant potatoes
  Authors: Vilma Ortiz, Sinead Phelan and Ewen Mullins
  BMC Ecology, 16:55, 2016
• Selection of focal earthworm species as non-target soil organisms for environmental risk assessment of genetically modified plants
  Authors: C. van Capelle, S. Schrader, S. Arpaia
  Science of the Total Environment 548–549: 360–369, 2016
• Simulation study of the impact of changed cropping practices in conventional and GM maize on weeds and associated biodiversity
  Authors: Jana Bürger, Henri Darmency, Sylvie Granger, Sébastien H.M.Guyot, Antoine Messéan, Nathalie Colbach
  Agricultural Systems 137:51-63, 2015
• GM crops for cultivation in the EU through a Delphi forecasting exercise
  Authors: I. McFarlane, P. Jones, J. Park, R. Tranter
  Seventh International Conference on Coexistence between Genetically Modified (GM) and non-GM based Agricultural Supply Chains (GMCC-15) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 17-20, 2015
• Toxicity of Spirotetramat on solitary bee larvae, Osmia cornuta (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), in laboratory conditions
  Authors: F. Sgolastra, S. Tosi, P. Medrzycki, C. Porrini, G. Burgio
  Journal of Apiculture Science 59(2): 2015
• Managing maize under pest species competition: is Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) maize the solution?
  Authors: Catarino, R., Ceddia, G., Areal, F., Parisey, N. and Park, J.
  Ecosphere 7(6):e01340. 10.1002/ecs2.1340, 2015
• Effect of transgenic insect-resistant maize to the community structure of soil nematodes in two field trials
  Authors: A. Čerevková, Ľ. Cagáň
  Helmintologia, 52, 1: 41 – 49, 2015
• The impact of secondary pests on Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops
  Authors: Rui Catarino, Graziano Ceddia, Francisco J. Areal and Julian Park
  Plant Biotechnology Journal 13(5): 601-612, 2015
• The power of statistical tests using field trial count data of non-target organisms in environmental risk assessment of genetically modified plants
  Authors: van der Voet H, Goedhart PW
  Agricultural and Forest Entomology 17(2): 164-172, 2015
• Quantifying predation pressure along an urbanisation gradient in Denmark using artificial caterpillars
  Authors: Ferrante Marco, Lo Cacciato Alessandro, Lövei, Gabor L.
  European Journal of Entomology, 111(5): 649-654, 2014
• Maize pollen foraging by honey bees in relation to crop area and landscape context
  Authors: Nadja Danner, Stephan Härtel, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
  Basic and Applied Ecology 15: 677–684, 2014
• Assessing and monitoring impacts of genetically modified plants on agro-ecosystems: the approach of AMIGA
  Authors: S. Arpaia, A. Messéan, N.A. Birch, H. Hokannen, S. Härtel, J. van Loon, G. Lovei, J. Park, H. Spreafico, G.R. Squire, I. Steffan-Dewenter, C. Tebbe, H. van der Voet
  Entomologia 2:154, 2014
• A statistical simulation model for field testing of non-target organisms in environmental risk assessment of genetically modified plants
  Authors: Paul W. Goedhart, Hilko van der Voet, Ferdinando Baldacchino, Salvatore Arpaia
  Ecology and Evolution 4(8): 1267-1283, 2014
• The extent to which potential benefits to EU farmers of adopting transgenic crops are reduced by cost of compliance with coexistence regulations
  Authors: Ian McFarlane, University of Reading, UK, Julian Park, University of Reading, UK, Graziano Ceddia, MODUL University Vienna
  AgBioForum, 17(1): 37-43, 2014
• Effect of Stacked Insecticidal Cry Proteins from Maize Pollen on Nurse Bees (Apis mellifera carnica) and Their Gut Bacteria
  Authors: Harmen P. Hendriksma, Meike Küting, Stephan Härtel, Astrid Näther, Anja B. Dohrmann, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Christoph C. Tebbe
  PLOS ONE, 8(3):e59589, 2013
• Effects of multiple Bt proteins and GNA lectin on in vitro-reared honey bee larvae
  Authors: Harmen P. Hendriksma, Stephan Härtel, Dirk Babendreier, Werner von der Ohe, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
  Apidologie 43:549–560, 2012