Environmental impact of radiofrequency fields from mobile phone base stations

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1313-1369

  Verschaeve, Luc ^a,b  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biological effect; environment; mobile phone; radiofrequency radiation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MOBILE PHONES;

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MOBILE PHONE BASE STATIONS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO FREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIO-FREQUENCY FIELDS; RF RADIATION;

BASE STATIONS;

AMPHIBIA; ANTENNA; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIRD; DOSIMETRY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN; INSECT; MAMMAL; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REVIEW; SNAIL; SPIDER; WILDLIFE;

EID: 84887033727     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2013.781935     Document Type: Review

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