The translocation of caesium and silver by fungi in some Scottish soils

References

• Anderson , P. , Davidson , C.M. , Littlejohn , D. , Ure , A.M. , Shand , C.A. and Cheshire , M.V. 1994 . Extraction of ergosterol from peaty soils and determination by high performance liquid chromatography . Talanta , 41 : 711 – 720 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Anderson , P. , Davidson , C.M. , Littlejohn , D. , Ure , A.M. , Shand , C.A. and Cheshire , M.V. 1996 . The determination of caesium and silver in soil and fungal fruiting bodies by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry. . Anal. Chim. Acta. , 327 : 53 – 60 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bakken , L.R. and Olsen , R.A. 1990 . Accumulation of radiocaesium in fungi. . Can. J. Microbiol. , 36 : 704 – 710 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Battiston , G.A. , Degetto , S. , Berbasi , R. and Sbrignadello , G. 1989 . Radioactivity in mushrooms in north east Italy following the Chernobyl accident. . J. Environ. Radioactivity , 9 : 53 – 60 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Byrne , A.R. 1988 . Radioactivity in fungi in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, following the Chernobyl accident. . J. Environ. Radioactivity , 6 : 177 – 183 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clint , CM. and Dighton , J. 1992 . Uptake and accumulation of radiocaesium by mycorrhizal and non‐mycorrhizal heather plants . New Phytol. , 121 : 555 – 561 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dighton , J. and Horrill , A.D. 1988 . Radiocaesium accumulation in the mycorrhizal fungi Lactarius Rufus and Inocybe Longicystis in upland Britain, following the Chernobyl accident . Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. , 91 : 335 – 357 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dighton , J. , Clint , G.M. and Poskitt , J. 1991 . Uptake and accumulation of 137Cs by upland grassland soil fungi: A potential pool of Cs immobilization. . Mycol. Res. , 95 : 1052 – 1056 .
   Google Scholar
• Elstner , E.F. , Fink , R. , Holl , W. , Lengfelder , E. and Ziegler , H. 1987 . Natural and Chernobyl‐caused radioactivity in mushrooms, mosses and soil‐samples of defined biotops in SW Bavaria . Oecologia , 73 : 553 – 558 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Findlay , W.P.K. 1967 . Wayside and Woodland Fungi , London : Frederick Warne .
   Google Scholar
• Haselwandter , K. , Berreck , M. and Brunner , P. 1988 . Fungi as bioindicators of radiocaesium contamination: Pre‐ and post‐Chernobyl activities . Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. , 90 : 171 – 174 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heinrich , G. 1992 . Uptake and transfer factors of l37Cs by mushrooms. . Radiat. Environ. Biophs. , 31 : 39 – 49 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heinrich , G. 1993 . Distribution of radiocaesium in the different parts of mushrooms. . J. Environ. Radioactivity , 18 : 229 – 245 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Horrill , A.D. and Clint , G. 1994 . “ Caesium cycling in heather moorland ecosystems ” . In Toxic Metals in Soil‐Plant Systems , Edited by: Ross , S.M. 395 – 416 . London : John Wiley and Sons Ltd. .
   Google Scholar
• Hove , K. , Pederson , O. , Garmo , T.H. , Hansen , H.S. and Staaland , H. 1990 . Fungi: A major source of radiocaesium contamination of grazing ruminants in Norway . Health Physics , 59 : 189 – 192 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ingold , C.T. 1984 . The Biology of Fungi. , 5th ed. , London : Hutchinson and Co. Ltd. .
   Google Scholar
• Nylund , J.E. and Wallander , H. 1992 . Ergosterol analysis as a means of quantifying mycorrhizal biomass . Methods Microbiol. , 24 : 77 – 88 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rafferty , B. , Dowding , P. and McGee , E. J. 1994 . Fungal spores in faeces and evidence of fungus ingestion by sheep. . Sci. Tot. Environ. , 157 : 317 – 321 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shand , C.A. , Cheshire , M.V. , Smith , S. , Campbell , C.D. , Anderson , P. , Davidson , C.M. , Littlejohn , D. and Jamieson , N. 1995 . Radiocaesium in an organic soil and the effect of treatment with the fungicide ‘Captan’ . Plant Soil , 170 : 315 – 322 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Strandberg , M. and Knudsen , H. 1994 . Mushroom spores and 137Cs in feces of the roe deer. . J. Environ. Radioactivity , 23 : 189 – 203 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tyler , G. 1980 . Metals in sporophores of basidiomycetes. . Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. , 74 : 41 – 49 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Corresponding author.
   Google Scholar