Evaluating summarised radionuclide concentration ratio datasets for wildlife

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 126, Issue , 2013, Pages 314-325

  Wood, M D ^a   Beresford, N A ^b   Howard, B J ^b   Copplestone, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental assessment; Geometric statistic; Lognormal distribution; Model parameter; Radionuclide transfer; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MODEL PARAMETERS; RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATION; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSFER; SITE-SPECIFIC MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; FORECASTING; GEOMETRY; RADIOISOTOPES; STATISTICAL METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STATISTICS;

CESIUM; LEAD; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DATABASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIONUCLIDE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANNELID; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; HERB; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; POACEAE; SHRUB; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WILDLIFE;

MAMMALIA; WHITE TIP DIE-BACK PHYTOPLASMA;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GEOMETRIC STATISTIC; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MODEL PARAMETER; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSFER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84889635991     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.07.022     Document Type: Article

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