Overview
- Describes movements of radiocesium among various components in forest ecosystems
- Provides practical, useful information for designing decontamination plans
- Focuses on forests that residents frequently use
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About this book
More specifically, the book examines the contribution of surface uptake by trees in the dynamics of radiocesium during the initial contamination stage; the movement of radiocesium in the form of small organic fragments that are essential to the radiocesium dynamics in forest ecosystems; and the upward movement of radiocesium due to microorganism activity, which promotes the effective decontamination of the forest floor. Lastly, it explains why spiders could be a valuable indicator of the contamination level in forest ecosystems.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Radiocesium Deposition at the Accident
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Mechanisms of Radiocesium Translocation in Plants
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Radiocesium Movement Through Ecological Processes in Forest Ecosystem
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Radiocesium Dynamics and Its Perspective in Forests
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
Aichi, Japan
Naoki Hijii
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
Aichi, Japan
Nobuhiro Kaneko
Faculty of Food Agricultural Sciences, Fukushima University
Fukushima, Japan
Tatsuhiro Ohkubo
Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University
Tochigi, Japan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radiocesium Dynamics in a Japanese Forest Ecosystem
Book Subtitle: Initial Stage of Contamination After the Incident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Editors: Chisato Takenaka, Naoki Hijii, Nobuhiro Kaneko, Tatsuhiro Ohkubo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8606-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8605-3Published: 03 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8608-4Published: 03 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8606-0Published: 21 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 234
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forestry, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection, Ecology, Plant Sciences