Short- and long-term patterns of ¹³7Cs in fish and other aquatic organisms of small forest lakes in southern Finland since the Chernobyl accident.
J Environ Radioact
; 103(1): 41-7, 2012 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
We summarize the patterns of ¹³7Cs activity concentrations and transfer into fish and other biota in four small forest lakes in southern Finland during a twenty-year period following the Chernobyl accident in April 1986. The results from summer 1986 showed fastest accumulation of ¹³7Cs into planktivorous fishes, i.e. along the shortest food chains. Since 1987, the highest annual mean values of ¹³7Cs have been recorded in fish occupying the highest trophic levels, for perch (Perca fluviatilis) 13,600 Bq/kg (ww) and for pike (Esox lucius) 20,700 Bq/kg (ww). At the same time, activity concentrations of ¹³7Cs in crustacean zooplankton and Asellus aquaticus have ranged between 1000 and 19,500 Bq/kg (dw). In 2006, 5-28% of the 1987 ¹³7Cs activity concentration levels were still present in perch and pike. Since 1989 their ¹³7Cs activity concentrations in oligohumic seepage lakes have remained significantly higher than in polyhumic drainage lakes due to the increased transfer of ¹³7Cs into fish in the seepage lakes with lower electrolyte concentrations, longer water retention times and lower sedimentation rate.
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Zooplâncton
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Lagos
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Radioisótopos de Césio
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Monitoramento Ambiental
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Crustáceos
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Acidente Nuclear de Chernobyl
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Peixes
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Animals
País como assunto:
Europa
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En
Ano de publicação:
2012
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