Radioactive contamination of natural ecosystems: Seeing the wood despite the trees

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 12283-12284

  Hashimoto, Shoji ^a   Linkov, Igor ^b   Shaw, George ^c   Kaneko, Shinji ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM;

ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FOREST; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; TREE; WOOD;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 84869434853     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304145n     Document Type: Note

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