Effect of industrial pollution on the distribution of 137Cs in soil and the soil-to-plant transfer in a pine forest in SW Finland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 303, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-230

  Outola, Iisa ^a,b   Pehrman, Reijo ^a   Jaakkola, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest; Industrial pollution; Plant; Radiocaesium; Soil

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; FORESTRY; SOILS;

INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION;

POLLUTION;

CESIUM 137; COPPER; NICKEL; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

BIOACCUMULATION; CESIUM; FOREST SOIL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BERRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINLAND; FOREST; INDUSTRY; LICHENS; LINGONBERRY; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; PINE; PLANT; POLLUTION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SAMPLING; SMELTER; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

AGARICALES; CESIUM; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FINLAND; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LICHENS; PINUS; PLANT LEAVES; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TREES;

CESIUM; FORESTS; POLLUTION; SOIL;

FINLAND;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CETRARIA; CETRARIA ISLANDICA; CLADONIA; EMPETRUM; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; IDAEA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA; VITIS;

EID: 0037374576     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00402-3     Document Type: Article

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