Ecological and toxicological effects of exposure to an acidic, radioactive tailings storage

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-85

  Read, John ^a   Pickering, Robyn ^a  

^a BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological effects; Radionuclide analysis

Indexed keywords

ACID SPRAY; BIOACCUMULATION; TAILINGS RETENTION SYSTEMS; TOXICOLOGY;

ARID REGIONS; BIOMARKERS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PLANTS (BOTANY); RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; TAILINGS; TOXICITY; VEGETATION;

AIR POLLUTION;

LEAD 210; POLONIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; THORIUM; URANIUM 238;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; TAILINGS;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ANT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOACCUMULATION; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PLANT; RADIATION; SCORPION; TOXICOLOGY; VEGETATION;

COLEOPTERA; CTENOPHORUS NUCHALIS; DODONAEA VISCOSA; FORMICIDAE; GEKKONIDAE; IRIDOMYRMEX RUFONIGER; SCORPIONES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0032924623     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005901014386     Document Type: Article

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