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Uptake and Translocation of Heavy Metals in Maize Leaves Exposed to Atmospheric Fallout [PDF]
PlantsAtmospheric deposition is considered a source of heavy metals in plants. However, research on the uptake pathways of atmospheric particulate matter by leaves and the subsequent translocation of heavy metals within plants remains limited.
Qiqi Wang +6 more
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Uptake of Radionuclides by Bryophytes in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
Toxics, 2023 The “Chernobyl nuclear disaster” released huge amounts of radionuclides, which are still detectable in plants and sediments today. Bryophytes (mosses) are primitive land plants lacking roots and protective cuticles and therefore readily accumulate ...
Brigitte Schmidt +8 more
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Challenges, 2022 New risk geographies are emerging with war and conflict resurfacing, including nuclear threats. This poses challenges to civil protection for conducting risk-informed preparedness planning.
Alexander Fekete
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Moonlight diminishes seabird attraction to artificial light
Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 Rescue programs aiming to mitigate light‐induced mortality of seabird fledglings have reported that fewer birds are grounded (and rescued) during full moon nights. Two non‐mutually exclusive hypotheses have been proposed as explanations: (1) reduction of
Airam Rodríguez +5 more
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A path forward in the investigation of seabird strandings attributed to light attraction
Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 A variety of anthropogenic threats cause mortality and population declines of procellariiform seabirds. Globally, fledglings of many colonial procellariiforms become stranded in towns and cities during their first flights from the nest, which occur at ...
Taylor Marie Brown +3 more
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Весці Нацыянальнай акадэміі навук Беларусі: Серыя фізіка-тэхнічных навук, 2023 Using the J-RODOS and RECASS-EXPRESS software packages, modeling of the radiological and radiation-ecological consequences of a severe beyond design basis accident at the power unit of the Belarusian NPP with a VVER-1200 reactor was carried out.
V. V. Kliaus +4 more
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Atmospherically produced beryllium-10 in annually laminated late-glacial sediments of the North American Varve Chronology [PDF]
Geochronology, 2021 We attempt to synchronize the North American Varve Chronology (NAVC) with ice core and calendar year timescales by comparing records of atmospherically produced 10Be fallout in the NAVC and in ice cores.
G. Balco +7 more
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Contaminants in food chains of arctic ungulates: what have we learned from the Chernobyl accident?
Rangifer, 1998 The Chernobyl accidenr of 1986 caused radioactive contamination of widespread areas of reindeer pasture in Scandinavia. Reindeer {Rangifer tarandus) are especially exposed to radioactive fallout due to their wintet diet, of which lichens are an important
Birgitta Åhman
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Radiation Protection and Environment, 2018 Benchmarking the fallout 137Cs in the coastal marine environment assumes significance in view of expansion of nuclear power plants (NPPs) in India and the Asia-Pacific region.
B Vijayakumar +4 more
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Pragmatic Implications of Slang in Husseini Preachers’ Iraqi Arabic
آداب الكوفة, 2021 This study is concerned with investigating the deliberative goals behind the use of popular slang expressions by the preachers of the Husseini pulpit in the context of delivering lectures addressed to the Iraqi people and the Islamic public in general ...
Basim Kadhim, Saeed Abdulraheem
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