Leaching characteristics of 137Cs for forest floor affected by the Fukushima nuclear accident: A litterbag experiment

K Sakuma, K Yoshimura, T Nakanishi - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
… this study we used litterbag experiments to evaluate the characteristics of the dissolved 137
Cs … before taking the litterbag from the forest floor, and accumulated temperature during the …

Evaluating 137Cs detachment from coniferous needle litter in a headwater stream: a litter bag field experiment

T Gomi, M Sakai, ME Haque, K Hosoda… - Landscape and ecological …, 2018 - Springer
… In this study, we investigated 137 Cs detachment from … riffles) on 137 Cs detachment from
the litter using a litter bag method. … 137 Cs activity concentration and the chemical properties of …

Microbial immobilization and recycling of 137Cs in the organic layers of forest ecosystems: relationship to environmental conditions, humification and invertebrate …

A Brückmann, V Wolters - Science of the total environment, 1994 - Elsevier
137Cs found in the organic layers (mean, 13%). Litterbag experiments showed that 137Cs
… neither by species-specific features nor by the 137Cs concentration of the nutritional solution…

Differences in leaching characteristics of dissolved radiocaesium and potassium from the litter layer of Japanese cedar and broadleaf forests in Fukushima, Japan

M Kurihara, Y Onda, T Yasutaka - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2020 - Elsevier
… and K in litter decreased by putting litter in water, and found that the decrease in K was
greater than that of 137 Cs. A litterbag experiment after the Chernobyl accident also showed that …

Studying 137Cs dynamics during litter decomposition in three forest types in the vicinity of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant

I Endo, M Ohashi, K Tanoi, NI Kobayashi… - Journal of Forest …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… ( 137 Cs) concentration change in the course of the litter decomposition process, we conducted
litter bag experiments … The litter 137 Cs concentration and the relative 137 Cs amount in …

Radiocesium migration in the litter layer of different forest types in Fukushima, Japan

M Kurihara, Y Onda, H Kato, N Loffredo… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
litter bag experiments over 2 years (December 2014–November 2016) to quantify the inputs
and outputs of 137 Cs … terms of 137 Cs content while presenting the same characteristics as …

Decomposition in two pine forests: the mobilisation of 137Cs and K from forest litter

B Rafferty, D Dawson, A Kliashtorin - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 1997 - Elsevier
… To calculate fluxes of 13’Cs and K between the litter bags and the surrounding soil the
amount of each element in each litter bag was compared before and after burial in the soil. The …

Radiocesium immobilization to leaf litter by fungi during first-year decomposition in a deciduous forest in Fukushima

Y Huang, N Kaneko, T Nakamori, T Miura… - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
… We observed radiocesium concentrations of leaf litter during decomposition on a forest
floor where radiocesium ( 137 Cs) contamination was ∼155 kBq/m 2 . Litter bag experiments

A new perspective on the 137Cs retention mechanism in surface soils during the early stage after the Fukushima nuclear accident

J Koarashi, S Nishimura, M Atarashi-Andoh, K Muto… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
properties and the 137 Cs extractability of the soils, 137 Cs incorporation into the complex
structure of POM is likely the main mechanism for 137 Cs … a significant fraction of 137 Cs is not …

Mechanisms of 137Cs migration in coniferous forest soils

B Rafferty, M Brennan, D Dawson… - Journal of Environmental …, 2000 - Elsevier
… of deposited 137 Cs will be characteristic of one of the three phases. In the first phase 137 Cs
… The litter-bag study demonstrated a 40% weight loss associated with the transformation of …