Chernobyl's radioactive impact on fauna

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1181, Issue , 2009, Pages 255-280

  Yablokov, Alexey V ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; FAUNA; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; IMMIGRATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORBIDITY; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; VERTEBRATE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; INVERTEBRATES; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 72049083453     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04833.x     Document Type: Review

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