Time-dependency of the 137Cs contamination of wild boar from a region in Southern Germany in the years 1998 to 2008

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 988-992

  Semizhon, Tatiana ^a,b   Putyrskaya, Victoria ^a,b   Zibold, Gregor ^a   Klemt, Eckehard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES RAVENSBURG WEINGARTEN   (Germany)

^b International Sakharov Environmental University   (Belarus)

Author keywords

137Cs; Time dependency; Wild boar

Indexed keywords

137CS; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; LONG TERM; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; ROE DEER; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SOUTHERN GERMANY; TIME-DEPENDENCY; WILD BOAR; WILD BOARS;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 137; CESIUM;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DIETARY SHIFT; FODDER; PIG; POLLUTION EFFECT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GERMANY; NONHUMAN; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RED MEAT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TISSUE LEVEL; WILD BOAR; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PLANT; RADIATION MONITORING; SWINE; TIME;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CAPREOLUS; CENTROPOGON SURINAMENSIS; SUS SCROFA;

ANIMALS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; GERMANY; PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; SUS SCROFA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69649099116     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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