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List of works by Nicholas A. Beresford

A comparison of the ellipsoidal and voxelized dosimetric methodologies for internal, heterogeneous radionuclide sources

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A metabolic approach to simulating the dynamics of C-14, H-3 and S-35 in sheep tissues

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

A metabolic derivation of tritium transfer coefficients in animal products

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

A model of radioiodine transfer to goat milk incorporating the influence of stable iodine

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

A multi-criteria weight of evidence approach for deriving ecological benchmarks for radioactive substances

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

A new approach to predicting environmental transfer of radionuclides to wildlife: a demonstration for freshwater fish and caesium

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A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles.

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

A new version of the ERICA tool to facilitate impact assessments of radioactivity on wild plants and animals

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A simple method for the estimation of the bioavailability of radiocaesium from herbage contaminated by adherent soil

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

ALLIANCE perspectives on integration of humans and the environment into the system of radiological protection

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Absorption of radiocaesium by sheep after ingestion of contaminated soils

scientific article published on 01 November 1996

Accumulation of plutonium in mammalian wildlife tissues following dispersal by accidental-release tests

scientific article published on 21 April 2015

Addressing current knowledge gaps on radionuclide transfer to reptiles

Adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) for radiation-induced reproductive effects in environmental species: state of science and identification of a consensus AOP network

An international comparison of models and approaches for the estimation of the radiological exposure of non-human biota.

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An international database of radionuclide concentration ratios for wildlife: development and uses

scientific article published on 29 June 2013

An international model validation exercise on radionuclide transfer and doses to freshwater biota.

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

An invitation to contribute to a strategic research agenda in radioecology

scientific article published on August 10, 2012

An overview of the transfer of radionuclides to farm animals and potential countermeasures of relevance to Fukushima releases.

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Application of the Bayesian approach for derivation of PDFs for concentration ratio values

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Application of the ERICA Integrated Approach to the Drigg coastal sand dunes.

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Approaches to providing missing transfer parameter values in the ERICA Tool – How well do they work?

scientific article published on June 2, 2012

Assessing doses to terrestrial wildlife at a radioactive waste disposal site: Inter-comparison of modelling approaches

scientific article published on 10 May 2012

Assessing radiation impact at a protected coastal sand dune site: an intercomparison of models for estimating the radiological exposure of non-human biota

scientific article published on 17 May 2009

Assessment of naturally occurring radionuclides around England and Wales: Application of the G-BASE dataset to estimate doses to non-human species

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Assessment of risk to wildlife from ionising radiation: can initial screening tiers be used with a high level of confidence?

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Background dose-rates to reference animals and plants arising from exposure to naturally occurring radionuclides in aquatic environments

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Background exposure rates of terrestrial wildlife in England and Wales

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

Brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone

scientific article published on 29 December 2016

Caesium dosing reduces uptake of radiocaesium by sheep

Can models based on phylogeny be used to predict radionuclide activity concentrations in crops?

scientific article published on 05 April 2020

Chernobyl's legacy in food and water

scientific article published in Nature

Considerations for the integration of human and wildlife radiological assessments.

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Corrigendum: "The transfer of 137Cs, Pu isotopes and 90Sr to bird, bat and ground-dwelling small mammal species within the Chernobyl exclusion zone"[Journal of Environmental Radioactivity Volume 153, March 2016, Pages 231-236]

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Current ionising radiation doses in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone do not directly impact on soil biological activity

scientific article published on 23 February 2022

Derivation of transfer parameters for use within the ERICA Tool and the default concentration ratios for terrestrial biota.

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Development of a laboratory method to predict rapidly the availability of radiocaesium

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

Do fungi need to be included within environmental radiation protection assessment models?

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Do site-specific radiocarbon measurements reflect localized distributions of 14C in biota inhabiting a wetland with point contamination sources?

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Dynamic Behavior of 110mAg in Sheep Tissues

scientific article published on 01 April 1994

Dynamic distribution of radioisotopes of cerium, ruthenium and silver in sheep tissues

scholarly article by N.A. Beresford et al published January 1998 in Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Dynamic radiocaesium distribution in sheep: Measurement and modelling

Education and training in radioecology during the EU-COMET project - successes and suggestions for the future

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Effects of ionizing radiation on wildlife: what knowledge have we gained between the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents?

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Establishing a database of radionuclide transfer parameters for freshwater wildlife

Estimating radiological exposure of wildlife in the field

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Estimating radionuclide transfer to wild species--data requirements and availability for terrestrial ecosystems.

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Estimating the biological half-life for radionuclides in homoeothermic vertebrates: a simplified allometric approach

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Estimating the exposure of small mammals at three sites within the Chernobyl exclusion zone--a test application of the ERICA Tool.

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Estimating the population density of Eurasian lynx in the Ukrainian part of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone using camera trap footage

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

European bison (Bison bonasus) in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (Ukraine) and prospects for its revival

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

Evaluating summarised radionuclide concentration ratio datasets for wildlife

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Exploring methods to prioritise concentration ratios when estimating weighted absorbed dose rates to terrestrial Reference Animals and Plants

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Exploring taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships to predict radiocaesium transfer to marine biota

scientific article published on 28 August 2018

Exposure of burrowing mammals to 222Rn.

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Factors contributing to radiocaesium variability in upland sheep flocks in west Cumbria (United Kingdom).

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Field effects studies in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: Lessons to be learnt

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Findings and recommendations from an international comparison of models and approaches for the estimation of radiological exposure to non-human biota

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Fit-for-purpose modelling of radiocaesium soil-to-plant transfer for nuclear emergencies: a review

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

Forage grasses with lower uptake of caesium and strontium could provide 'safer' crops for radiologically contaminated areas

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From tangled banks to toxic bunnies; a reflection on the issues involved in developing an ecosystem approach for environmental radiation protection

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Gastrointestinal fractional absorption of radionuclides in adult domestic ruminants

scientific article published on 28 May 2009

Generic relationship between calcium intake and radiostrontium transfer to the milk of dairy ruminants

scientific article published on 01 July 1998

Genetic, epigenetic and microbiome characterisation of an earthworm species (Octolasion lacteum) along a radiation exposure gradient at Chernobyl

scientific article published on 14 September 2019

ICRP Publication 114. Environmental protection: transfer parameters for reference animals and plants

scientific article published in December 2009

Identifying optimal agricultural countermeasure strategies for a hypothetical contamination scenario using the strategy model

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Impacts of radiation exposure on the bacterial and fungal microbiome of small mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

scientific article published on 21 May 2021

Impacts of radiation on the bacterial and fungal microbiome of small mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Inter-comparison of dynamic models for radionuclide transfer to marine biota in a Fukushima accident scenario

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Inter-comparison of models to estimate radionuclide activity concentrations in non-human biota.

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Inter-cultivar variation in soil-to-plant transfer of radiocaesium and radiostrontium in Brassica oleracea.

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Inter-varietal variation in caesium and strontium uptake by plants: a meta-analysis.

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Limit of detection values in data analysis: Do they matter?

Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models

scientific article published on 4 April 2015

Mammals in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone's Red Forest: a motion-activated camera trap study

scientific article published on 23 February 2023

Mammals in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone’s Red Forest: a motion activated camera trap study

scientific article published on 10 November 2022

Measuring the radiation exposure of Norwegian reindeer under field conditions

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

More than thirty years after the Chernobyl accident: What do we know about the effects of radiation on the environment?

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Moving radiation protection on from the limitations of empirical concentration ratios

scientific article published on 20 July 2019

Observations of Fukushima fallout in Great Britain.

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Post-Chernobyl surveys of radiocaesium in soil, vegetation, wildlife and fungi in Great Britain

scientific article published in 2015

Predicting exposure of wildlife in radionuclide contaminated wetland ecosystems

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Predicting radionuclide transfer to wild animals: an application of a proposed environmental impact assessment framework to the Chernobyl exclusion zone

scientific article published on 20 October 2005

Predicting the radiation exposure of terrestrial wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone: an international comparison of approaches.

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Protection of the environment from ionising radiation in a regulatory context (PROTECT): Assessment approaches – practicality, relevance and merits

Protection of the environment from ionising radiation in a regulatory context (protect): proposed numerical benchmark values

scientific article published on 8 July 2009

Protection of the environment from ionising radiation in a regulatory context--an overview of the PROTECT coordinated action project.

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Protection of the environment from ionising radiation: developing criteria and evaluating approaches for use in regulation

Quantifying the transfer of radionuclides to food products from domestic farm animals.

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Radioactive fallout and environmental transfers

Radiocaesium activity concentrations in the fruit-bodies of macrofungi in Great Britain and an assessment of dietary intake habits.

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Radiocaesium transfer and radiation exposure of frogs in Fukushima Prefecture

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Radiocaesium variability within sheep flocks: determination of 137Cs intake in free-ranging sheep

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Radiocesium concentration ratios and radiation dose to wild rodents in Fukushima Prefecture

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Radioecology in CONFIDENCE: Dealing with uncertainties relevant for decision making

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Radiological dose rates to marine fish from the Fukushima Daiichi accident: the first three years across the North Pacific

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Radionuclide biological half-life values for terrestrial and aquatic wildlife.

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Radionuclide transfer to animal products: revised recommended transfer coefficient values

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Radionuclide transfer to reptiles

scientific article published on 20 August 2010

Radionuclide transfer to wildlife at a 'Reference site' in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and resultant radiation exposures

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Response to authors' reply regarding “Abundance of birds in Fukushima as judged from Chernobyl” by Møller et al. (2012)

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Review of Russian language studies on radionuclide behaviour in agricultural animals: 3. Transfer to muscle

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

Review of Russian language studies on radionuclide behaviour in agricultural animals: biological half-lives

scientific article published on 17 February 2015

Review of Russian-language studies on radionuclide behaviour in agricultural animals: part 4. Transfer to poultry.

scientific article published on 25 July 2009

Selecting passive dosimetry technologies for measuring the external dose of terrestrial wildlife

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Self-help countermeasure strategies for populations living within contaminated areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Should we ignore U-235 series contribution to dose?

scientific article published on 7 October 2015

Spatial analysis of Carbon-14 dynamics in a wetland ecosystem (Duke Swamp, Chalk River Laboratories, Canada).

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Spatial datasets of radionuclide contamination in the Ukrainian Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

scientific article published in 2018

Spatial datasets of radionuclide contamination in the Ukrainian Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Sustainable restoration and long-term management of contaminated rural, urban and industrial ecosystems

scientific article published on 24 March 2010

Temporal and spatial prediction of radiocaesium transfer to food products

scientific article published on 01 September 2001

The ERICA Tool

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The IAEA handbook on radionuclide transfer to wildlife.

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The Importance of Source-Dependent Bioavailability in Determining the Transfer of Ingested Radionuclides to Ruminant-Derived Food Products

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The dynamic transfer of 3H and 14C in mammals: a proposed generic model

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

The effectiveness of oral administration of potassium iodide to lactating goats in reducing the transfer of radioiodine to milk

The estimation of absorbed dose rates for non-human biota: an extended intercomparison

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The importance of soil adhered to vegetation as a source of radionuclides ingested by grazing animals

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The radioecological consequences for lowland pastures used to fatten upland sheep contaminated with radiocaesium

scientific article published on 01 April 1991

The selection of parameter values in studies of environmental radiological impacts

scientific article published in March 2014

The transfer of (137)Cs, Pu isotopes and (90)Sr to bird, bat and ground-dwelling small mammal species within the Chernobyl exclusion zone

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

The transfer of 137Cs and 90Sr to dairy cattle fed fresh herbage collected 3.5 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

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The transfer of radionuclides to wildlife

scientific article published on 15 August 2010

The uptake by vegetation of chernobyl and aged radiocaesium in upland West Cumbria

The use of dietary calcium intake of dairy ruminants to predict the transfer coefficient of radiostrontium to milk

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Thirty years after the Chernobyl accident - 30 key papers published in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Thirty years after the Chernobyl accident: What lessons have we learnt?

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Towards solving a scientific controversy - The effects of ionising radiation on the environment

scientific article published on 24 August 2019

Transfer of radionuclides and stable elements to foodstuffs in Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published on 06 September 2020

Transfer of radionuclides to food producing animals

Transfer parameters for ICRP reference animals and plants collected from a forest ecosystem

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Transfer parameters for ICRP's Reference Animals and Plants in a terrestrial Mediterranean ecosystem

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Ukraine: restore Chernobyl’s radioecology collaboration

scientific article published in 2022

Und ich hab gerade die Kinder

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Use of the true absorption coefficient as a measure of bioavailability of radiocaesium in ruminants

article by R. W. Mayes et al published 29 May 1996 in Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Use of the true absorption coefficient as a measure of bioavailability of radiocaesium in ruminants

scientific article published on 01 May 1996

Variation in the metabolism of radiocaesium between individual sheep.

scientific article published in December 1998

Whole-body to tissue concentration ratios for use in biota dose assessments for animals.

scientific article published on 08 October 2010

Whole-organism concentration ratios in wildlife inhabiting Australian uranium mining environments

scientific article published on 27 April 2017

Wild intersex roach (Rutilus rutilus) have reduced fertility

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Wildfires in the Chornobyl exclusion zone—Risks and consequences

Workshop to extend the involvement of stakeholders in decisions on restoration management

scientific article published in January 2005