Seasonal variations in soil-to-grass transfer of fallout strontium and cesium and of potassium in north german soils

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-181

  Ehlken, Sabine ^a,b   Kirchner, Gerald ^b  

^a Abt Ökologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; POTASSIUM 40; RADIOISOTOPE; RAIN; STRONTIUM 90;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; BIOACCUMULATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; FALLOUT; GERMANY; GRASS; MOISTURE; PLANT ROOT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION;

CAESIUM-134; CAESIUM-134/137; CAESIUM-137; GRASS; POTASSIUM-40; RADIONUCLIDE; RADIONUCLIDE UPTAKE; SEASONAL VAIRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; STRONTIUM-90;

GERMANY;

POACEAE;

EID: 0029661102     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0265-931X(95)00094-Q     Document Type: Article

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