A strategy for describing the biosphere at candidate sites for repositories of nuclear waste: Linking ecosystem and landscape modeling

Ambio

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 418-424

  Lindborg, Tobias ^a   Lindborg, Regina ^b   Löfgren, Anders ^c   Söderbäck, Björn ^a   Bradshaw, Clare ^b   Kautsky, Ulrik ^a  

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

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; SAFETY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; LICENSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SAFETY; STANDARD; SWEDEN; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEM; LICENSURE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SAFETY; SWEDEN; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33947575196     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2006)35[418:ASFDTB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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