Mushrooms as a reference material for intercomparison exercises and as bioindicators of radiocesium deposition in soil (France and Central European countries)

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 19-28

  Calmet, D ^a   Boursier, B ^b   Bouisset, P ^a   Guiard, A ^b   Barker, E ^c  

^a Lab de Mesure de la R   (France)

^b Ctr Natl d'Etudes V   (France)

^c MSIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CESIUM; CONTAMINATION; DEPOSITION; FUNGI; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; SOILS;

EUROPE; GERMANIUM GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; MUSHROOMS; RADIOCESIUM DEPOSITION; TOPSOIL CONTAMINATION;

RADIOMETRY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; POTASSIUM 40;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPE; FRANCE; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 0031934107     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(97)00253-4     Document Type: Article

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