Soil to plant uptake of fallout 137Cs by plants from boreal areas polluted by industrial emissions from smelters

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 234, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 213-221

  Bunzl, K ^a   Albers, B P ^a   Shimmack, W ^a   Rissanen, K ^b   Suomela, M ^b   Puhakainen, M ^b   Rahola, T ^b   Steinnes, E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

137Cs; Industry; Plant; Pollution; Smelter; Soil; Transfer

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT;

BOREAL FOREST; CESIUM ISOTOPE; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; SMELTING; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FALLOUT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SMELTER; SOIL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALLURGY; PLANTS; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RUSSIA; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TREES;

DESCHAMPSIA FLEXUOSA; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; IDAEA; KOLA; MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA; VITIS;

EID: 0032806727     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00265-X     Document Type: Article

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