Transfer of 137Cs from water to fish is not linear in two northern lakes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 700, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 131-139

  Tuovinen, Tiina S ^a   Saengkul, Chutarat ^a,b   Ylipieti, Jarkko ^c   Solatie, Dina ^c   Juutilainen, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b BURAPHA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Linearity assumption; Radioecology; Transfer factor; Trophic transfer

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; PISCIVORE; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; WATER QUALITY;

FINLAND;

COREGONUS ALBULA; ESOCIDAE;

EID: 84870689321     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1224-8     Document Type: Article

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