Radioactive caesium (20–60kBqm-2) was deposited after the Chernobyl accident in the
mountains of central Norway. Two sympatric ptarmigan species, willow ptarmigan Lagopus …

The Chernobyl accident contaminated large areas of Europe, including Britain, mainly
through the deposition of radioactive isotopes on vegetables, and on vegetation eaten by …

Temporal changes in contamination of mushrooms by the radionuclides 137Cs and 134Cs
were studied in a locality in central Bohemia in 1986—1990. At the current contamination …

In a two years project spruce needle samples of the Austrian Bioindicator Grid were
analysed by gamma spectrometry to detect the geographical and temporal distribution of …

It has been widely shown that nuclear fallout includes substances, which accumulate in
organisms such as crustaceans, fish, mushrooms and lichens, helping to evaluate the …

The radioactive debris from the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the USSR
arrived in Denmark one and a half days after the explosion in the reactor. From April 27 to 28 …

Following the Chernobyl accident, 137Cs contamination levels of wild boar in some districts
of Southern Germany are still exceeding thousands of Bqkg− 1. While the long term 137Cs …

High radiocaesium contents in different species of mushrooms have been observed in areas
contaminated by radiocaesium deposition after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. There has …

Studies were made on the edible fungus Cantharellus cibarius in a Scots pine [Pinus
sylvestris] stand in E.-central Sweden, in an area strongly affected by fallout from the …

Many studies have shown that mushrooms are organisms which efficiently accumulate
radionuclides and can be used as indicators of environmental contamination and ecosystem …