Can ECOPATH with ECOSIM enhance models of radionuclide flows in food webs? - an example for 14C in a coastal food web in the Baltic Sea

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 96-111

  Sandberg, J ^a   Kumblad, L ^a   Kautsky, U ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH NUCLEAR FUEL AND WASTE MANAGEMENT CO   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Carbon flow model; Carbon 14; ECOPATH; ECOSIM; Ecosystem modelling; ECOTRACE; regrundsgrepen; Radionuclide modelling

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CARBON FLOW MODELS; CARBON-14; ECOPATH SOFTWARE; ECOSIM SOFTWARE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOTRACE SOFTWARE; ÖREGRUNDSGREPEN; RADIONUCLIDE MODELING;

RADIOISOTOPES;

CARBON; CARBON 14; RADIOISOTOPE;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COASTAL ZONE; FOOD WEB; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE; SOFTWARE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; COASTAL WATERS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; FOOD WEB; STEADY STATE;

CARBON; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SOFTWARE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 33845303480     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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