Split application of glyphosate in herbicide-tolerant maize provides efficient weed control and favors beneficial epigeic arthropods

The RRRR herbicide treatment adequately regulates weeds and exerts restoration of weed cover later in growing season that is beneficial to the arthropods. Thus, GMHT crops have a potential to combine economic and environmental advantages for agroecosystem sustainability and can be recommended for implementation in European crop production systems.