Biological proliferation of cesium-137 through the detrital food chain in a forest ecosystem in japan

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Murakami, Masashi ^a   Ohte, Nobuhito ^b   Suzuki, Takahiro ^a   Ishii, Nobuyoshi ^c   Igarashi, Yoshiaki ^a   Tanoi, Keitaro ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; JAPAN; TREE;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; JAPAN; TREES;

EID: 84891796286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03599     Document Type: Article

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