Environmental influences on the137Cs kinetics of the yellow-bellied turtle (Trachemys scripta)

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-136

  Peters, Eric L ^a   Lehr Brisbin Jr , I ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Biotic concentrations; Cesium 137; Contaminant modeling; Diet; Kinetics modeling; Model sensitivity analysis; Physiological ecology; Radioecology; Radionuclides; Richards sigmoidal model; Stochastic models; Testudines; Thermal ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA;

EID: 0000854987     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2963483     Document Type: Article

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