Radiation-induced effects on plants and animals: Findings of the United Nations chernobyl forum

Health Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 427-440

  Hinton, Thomas G ^a   Alexakhin, Rudolph ^b   Balonov, Mikhail ^c   Gentner, Norman ^d   Hendry, Jolyn ^c   Prister, Boris ^e   Strand, Per ^f   Woodhead, Dennis ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY AND AGROECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d United Nations Scientific Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation   (Austria)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^f International Union of Radioecology   (Norway)

^g The Centre for Environment   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accidents, nuclear; Chernobyl; Health effects; National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOMEDICINE; BIOTA; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOBIOLOGY; REVIEW; SOIL; TAXON; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; UNITED NATIONS; WILDLIFE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PLANTS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 37349017577     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000281179.03443.2e     Document Type: Review

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