Making the most of what we have: Application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 151, Issue , 2016, Pages 373e386-386

  Beresford, Nicholas A ^a,b   Wood, Michael D ^b   Vives i Batlle, Jordi ^c   Yankovich, Tamara L ^d   Bradshaw, Clare ^e   Willey, Neil ^f  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Biological half life; Concentration ratio; Extrapolation; REML; Stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; FISH; FORECASTING; RADIOISOTOPES; STOICHIOMETRY;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIP; ALLOMETRY; CONCENTRATION RATIO; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; HALF LIVES; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSFER; REML;

EXTRAPOLATION;

CESIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; POLLUTANT;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ALLOMETRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; RADIONUCLIDE; STOICHIOMETRY;

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL FOOD; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FRESHWATER FISH; HALF LIFE TIME; LAGOPUS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; LEPUS TIMIDUS; NONHUMAN; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PREDICTION; RADIOECOLOGICAL WILDLIFE TRANSFER; RED DEER; STOICHIOMETRY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TETRAO; VERTEBRATE; WHITE TAILED DEER; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; RADIATION MONITORING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RADIOISOTOPES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84987642010     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.03.022     Document Type: Article

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