AN EVALUATION OF THE FACTORS INVOLVED IN BIOACCUMULATION OF GAMMA-EMITTING RADIONUCLIDE IN WHITE-TAILED DEER (ODOCOILEUS VIRGINTANIS)

摘要

Over 200 white-tailed deer were monitored for gamma-emitting radionuclides this past year (Oct. 71 - Oct. 72). Approximately one-half of these samples were collected in Georgia from four different physiographic regions. The Lower Coastal Plain continues to yield amazingly high values of cesium-137, the highest values now being recorded in North America.