Pools and fluxes of organic matter in a boreal landscape: Implications for a safety assessment of a repository for nuclear waste

Ambio

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 496-504

  Kumblad, Linda ^a   Söderbäck, Björn ^b   Löfgren, Anders ^c   Lindborg, Tobias ^b   Wijnbladh, Erik ^b   Kautsky, Ulrik ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

^c Site Investigations Oskarshamn ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; LANDSCAPE; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; REPOSITORY; SAFETY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; KALMAR [SWEDEN]; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SIMPEVARP; SWEDEN;

MEGESTROL ACETATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SAFETY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEM; MEGESTROL ACETATE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SAFETY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33947609419     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2006)35[496:PAFOOM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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