Strontium-90 and caesium-137 activity concentrations in bats in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 635-644

  Gashchak, Sergey ^a   Beresford, Nicholas Anthony ^b   Maksimenko, Andrey ^a   Vlaschenko, Anton S ^c  

^a Chernobyl Center   (Ukraine)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Interdepartmental Research Laboratory for the Study of Biodiversity and Nature Reserve Development   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; CAESIUM-137; CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE; CHERNOBYL ZONE; RADIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; SPECIES GROUPS; STRONTIUM-90; WHOLE-BODY;

CESIUM; RADIOLOGY; STRONTIUM;

MAMMALS;

EPTESICUS SEROTINUS;

CESIUM; STRONTIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOIL POLLUTANT; UKRAINE;

ANIMALS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHIROPTERA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; RADIATION MONITORING; SEX FACTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; UKRAINE;

EID: 78649328456     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-010-0322-0     Document Type: Article

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