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Use of lichens and mosses for on-line testing of environmental radioactive contamination

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The data on the concentrations of 90Sr and 137Cs in 54 species of lichen and moss with different taxonomic natures, as well as in samples of lichen-moss plant cover, are reported. It is shown that currently (during the period of stabilization of global radioactive fallout) the detected contents of radionuclides in lichens and mosses serve as a background and are crucial for the long-term radioecological monitoring and forecasting.

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  1. Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vos’mogo Marta 202, 620144, Yekaterinburg, Russia

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Translated from Defektoskopiya, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2005, pp. 80–84.

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Nifontova, M.G. Use of lichens and mosses for on-line testing of environmental radioactive contamination. Russ J Nondestruct Test 41, 60–63 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11181-005-0130-9

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