TRansfer - Exposure - Effects (TREE) Integrating the science needed to underpin radioactivity assessments for humans and wildlife
TREE was one of three consortia funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Environment Agency (EA) and Radioactive Waste Management Limited (RWM) under the Radioactivity And The Environment (RATE) programme.
The objective of the TREE project was to reduce uncertainty in estimating the risk to humans and wildlife associated with exposure to radioactivity and to reduce unnecessary conservatism in risk calculations through interlinked science components, from improving understanding of the biogeochemical behaviour of radionuclides in soils through to transgenerational effects of ionising radiation exposure on wildlife. Studies combined controlled laboratory experiments with fieldwork - most of which took place in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), Ukraine.
The objective of the TREE project was to reduce uncertainty in estimating the risk to humans and wildlife associated with exposure to radioactivity and to reduce unnecessary conservatism in risk calculations through interlinked science components, from improving understanding of the biogeochemical behaviour of radionuclides in soils through to transgenerational effects of ionising radiation exposure on wildlife. Studies combined controlled laboratory experiments with fieldwork - most of which took place in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), Ukraine.
This data collection contains these resources
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A 'Reference Site' in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: radionuclide and stable element data, and estimated dose rates
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Bird Vocalisation Activity (BiVA) database: annotated soundscapes from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
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Data for lead (Pb) in terrestrial wildlife and resultant taxonomic models
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Effects of low-dose ionising radiation on reproduction and DNA damage in marine and freshwater amphipod crustaceans
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Elemental and radionuclide concentrations for several vegetation species from a site in Extremadura, Spain
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Elemental concentrations in representative species of the ICRP's Reference Animals and Plants and associated soils in terrestrial Mediterranean ecosystems in Spain
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Element and radionuclide concentrations in wildlife (including representative species of the ICRP's Reference Animals and Plants) and associated soils from forests in north-east England, 2015-2016
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Impact of environmental radiation on the health and reproductive status of fish from Japan, 2017
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Impacts of chronic radiation exposure on reproduction, development and genetic diversity of the freshwater crustacean Asellus aquaticus at Chernobyl
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Motion-activated camera trap images of Eurasian Lynx in the Ukrainian Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, 2012-2018
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Motion-activated camera trap images of wildlife from the Red Forest, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 2016-2017
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Nectar consumption, metabolic rate and activity datasets for bumblebees exposed to ecologically relevant radiation dose rates
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Post Chernobyl surveys of radiocaesium in soil, vegetation, wildlife and fungi in Great Britain
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Radionuclide data for vertebrates in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
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Radionuclide distribution down soil profiles in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 2020
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Soil and vegetation radionuclide activity concentrations and calculated dose rates from the Red Forest, Chernobyl, Ukraine, 2016-2017
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Soil biological activity in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, September 2005 and spring 2016
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Spatial datasets of radionuclide contamination in the Ukrainian Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
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Spatial radionuclide deposition data from the 60 km radial area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 1987
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Technetium-99 (99Tc) transformations in aerobic soils following experimental addition of the radioactive anion 99TcO4-
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Technetium and radioselenium activity concentrations following exposure in 61 species of flowering plant under controlled conditions
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Time series of uranium transformations in aerobic soils following experimental addition of uranyl ion
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Water chemistry of seven lakes in Belarus and Ukraine 2014 to 2016
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Wildlife camera trap photographs from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine (June 2020 - November 2020) following extensive wildfires
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Wildlife camera trap photographs from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine (November 2020 - March 2021) following extensive wildfires