REB wildlife transfer issue

Radiation Environmental Biophysics have published an issue with papers arising from IAEA supported workshops on the transfer of radionuclides to wildlife held in Monaco and Vienna in 2009, see:http://www.springerlink.com/content/0301-634x/49/4/;the full text. Abstracts can be accessed from the links below.

Beresford N.A.
EDITORIAL: The transfer of radionuclides to wildlife.
Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 505-508

Strontium-90 and caesium-137 activity concentrations in bats in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Gashchak S, Beresford N.A., Maksimenko A., Vlaschenko A.S.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 635-644

Bats are a protected species and as such may bean object of protection in radiological assessments of the environment. However, there have previously been only few radioecological studies of species of bats. In this paper, results for 140 measurements of 90Sr and 137Cs in 10 species of bats collected within the Chernobyl zone are presented. There was some indication of a decreasing transfer of 90Sr with increasing deposition, although this was inconsistent across species and explained little of the observed variability. There was no difference between male and female bats in the transfer (expressed as the ratio of whole-body activity concentrations to those in soil) of either radionuclide. There was considerable variability in transfer across all species groups. At two sites where there were sufficient data, Eptesicus serotinus was found to have higher transfer than other species.
doi 10.1007/s00411-010-0322-0

Radionuclide transfer to reptiles. Wood M.D., Beresford N.A., Semenov D.V., Yankovich T.L., Copplestone D.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 509-530

doi 10.1007/s00411-010-0321-1

Reptiles are an important, and often protected, component of many ecosystems but have rarely been fully considered within ecological risk assessments (ERA) due to a paucity of data on contaminant uptake and effects. This paper presents a meta-analysis of literature-derived environmental media (soil and water) to whole-body concentration ratios (CRs) for predicting the transfer of 35 elements (Am, As, B, Ba, Ca, Cd, Ce, Cm, Co, Cr, Cs, Cu, Fe, Hg, K, La, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, Pb, Po, Pu, Ra, Rb, Sb, Se, Sr, Th, U, V, Y, Zn, Zr) to reptiles in freshwater ecosystems and 15 elements (Am, C, Cs, Cu, K, Mn, Ni, Pb, Po, Pu, Sr, Tc, Th, U, Zn) to reptiles in terrestrial ecosystems. These reptile CRs are compared with CRs for other vertebrate groups. Tissue distribution data are also presented along with data on the fractional mass of bone, kidney, liver and muscle in reptiles. Although the data were originally collected for use in radiation dose assessments, many of the CR data presented in this paper will also be useful for chemical ERA and for the assessments of dietary transfer in humans for whom reptiles constitute an important component of the diet, such as in Australian aboriginal communities.

Whole-body to tissue concentration ratios for use in biota dose assessments for animals. Yankovich T.L., Beresford N.A., Wood M., Aono T., Andersson P., Barnett C.L., Bennett P., Brown J., Fesenko S.,Hosseini A., Howard B.J, Johansen M, Phaneuf M., Tagami K., Takata H., Twining J., Uchida S.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 549-565

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Radionuclide transfer to marine biota species: review of Russian language studies. Fesenko S., Fesenko E., Titov I., Karpenko E., Sanzharova N., Gondin Fonseca A., Brown J.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 531-547

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Can elemental composition data of crop leaves be used to estimate radionuclide transfer to tree leaves?Tagami K., Uchida S.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 583-590

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Concentration ratios of stable elements for selected biota in Japanese estuarine areas. Takata H., Aono T., Tagami K., Uchida S.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 591-601

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Radionuclide concentration ratios in Australian terrestrial wildlife and livestock: data compilation and analysis. Johansen M.P., Twining J.R.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 603-611

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Phylogeny can be used to make useful predictions of soil-to-plant transfer factors for radionuclides. Willey N.J.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 613-623

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Transfer of radionuclides to ants, mosses and lichens in semi-natural ecosystems. Dragović S., Janković Mandić L.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 625-634

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Estimating transfer parameters in the absence of data. Higley K.A.

Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 49, (4), 645-656

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