Effects of non-human species irradiation after the Chernobyl NPP accident

Environment International

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 880-897

  Geras'kin, S A ^a   Fesenko, S V ^a,b   Alexakhin, R M ^a  

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

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chernobyl NPP accident; Doses; Ecological and biological effects; Radioactive contamination

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RADIOACTIVITY; SITE SELECTION;

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CHERNOBYL NPP ACCIDENT; DOSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; DOSES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; IRRADIATION; MUTATION; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLANT; POPULATION DECLINE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVITY; TESTING METHOD;

AGRICULTURE; AMPHIBIA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTOGENETICS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EPIGENETICS; FAUNA; FOREST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEREDITY; IONIZING RADIATION; MAMMAL; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SICKNESS; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; RODENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TREE;

CHERNOBYL; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; KIEV [UKRAINE]; UKRAINE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 48549096853     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2007.12.012     Document Type: Review

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