Distribution of the radionuclide 137Cs in the soils of a wet mountainous forest in Taiwan

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1097-1103

  Chiu, Chih Yu ^a   Lai, Shu Yin ^b   Lin, Yu Ming ^b   Chiang, Hsien Chueh ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Taiwan Radiation Monitoring Center   (Taiwan)

^c TAIWAN FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

137Cs; Ecosystem; Soil; Subtropical; Topography

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE; RAIN;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TAIWAN;

CESIUM; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; LAKES; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOILS;

RADIOCESIUM;

RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0032590368     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(98)00114-6     Document Type: Article

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