137Cs Accumulation by Plants of Floodplain Ecosystems

firstₚage Download PDF settings Order Article Reprints Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Font Size: Aa Aa Aa Line Spacing:    Column Width:    Background: Open AccessAbstract 137Cs Accumulation by Plants of Floodplain Ecosystems † by Oleksandr LukashOleksandr Lukash SciProfiles Scilit Preprints. org Google Scholar 1, *, Halina TkaczenkoHalina Tkaczenko SciProfiles Scilit Preprints. org Google Scholar 2, Anita SzikuraAnita Szikura SciProfiles Scilit Preprints. org Google Scholar 3 and Natalia KurhalukNatalia Kurhaluk SciProfiles Scilit Preprints. org Google Scholar 2 1 Department of Ecology, Geography and Nature Management, T. H. Shevchenko National University "Chernihiv Colehium", 53 Hetmana Polubotka Street, 14013 Chernihiv, Ukraine 2 Institute of Biology, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, 22B Arciszewskiego Street, 76-200 Słupsk, Poland 3 Department of Biology and Chemistry, Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, 6 Kossuth Square, 90200 Berehove, Ukraine * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. † Presented at the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Processes—Green and Sustainable Process Engineering and Process Systems Engineering (ECP 2024), 29–31 May 2024; Available online: https: //sciforum. net/event/ECP2024. Proceedings 2024, 105 (1), 42; https: //doi. org/10. 3390/proceedings2024105042 Published: 27 May 2024 (This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Processes—Green and Sustainable Process Engineering and Process Systems Engineering) Download keyboardₐrrowdown Download PDF Download PDF with Cover Download XML Download Epub Download Supplementary Material Versions Notes Keywords: accumulation coefficient; floodplain ecosystems; plant communities; radiocesium; vegetation The analysis of 137Cs accumulation by plants of forest, marsh, meadow, psamophytic, and ruderal communities in the Dnipro River floodplain (Ukraine) was carried out. It was established that plants of psammophytic and ruderal habitats are characterized by insignificant 137Cs pollution (from 334 to 16. 2 Bq/kg) and a low radionuclide accumulation coefficient (from 0. 04 to 0. 82). This primarily concerns such species as Berteroa incana (L. ) DC. , Calamagrostis epigejos (L. ) Roth, Tanacetum vulgare L. , Echium vulgare L. , Oenothera biennis L. , Artemisia absinthium L. , Verbascum lychnitis L. , Melilotus albus Medik. , Helichrysum arenarium (L. ) Moench, Cichorium intybus L. , Achillea millefolium L. , Hypericum perforatum L. , and Thymus serpyllum L. In the plant samples taken from the meadow and the swamp ecosystems, the 137Cs content did not exceed the permissible level (370 Bq/kg). Exceeding the normative indicator for 137Cs was detected in the forest ecosystem plant samples. Among such economically valuable plant species are Chelidonium majus L. , Convallaria majalis L. , Quercus robur L. , Rubus idaeus L. , and Calluna vulgaris (L. ) Hill. In addition, the 137Cs accumulation coefficient of certain perennial species of mossy, herbaceous, and dwarf shrub layers (Pleurozium schreberi (Willd. ex Brid. ) Mitt. , Convallaria majalis, and Calluna vulgaris) exceeds this value for the woody plant species. The intensity of radionuclide uptake by plants is determined both by the biological characteristics of the species and by the soil and the cenotic habitat conditions. The species specificity of radiocesium accumulation by plants of specific biotopes and the direct dependence of the plant accumulation coefficient on the density of biotope contamination with radionuclides were confirmed. The conducted studies illustrated not only interspecies differences in the intensity of 137Cs accumulation in one type of local habitat, but also variations in the accumulation of radionuclides in different systematic groups and life forms Supplementary MaterialsThe following supporting information can be downloaded at: https: //www. mdpi. com/article/10. 3390/proceedings2024105042/s1, Conference Poster: The 137Cs Accumulation by Plants of Floodplain Ecosystems. Author ContributionsConceptualization, O. L. and N. K. ; methodology, O. L. ; validation, H. T. ; formal analysis, O. L. and N. K. ; investigation, O. L. and A. S. ; resources, O. L. , H. T. and N. K. ; data curation, O. L. and A. S. ; writing—original draft preparation, O. L. and A. S. ; writing—review and editing, O. L. , H. T. and N. K. ; visualization, O. L. ; supervision, N. K. ; project administration, N. K. ; funding acquisition, A. S. and H. T. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. FundingThis research received no external funding. Institutional Review Board StatementNot applicable. Informed Consent StatementNot applicable. Data Availability StatementData is contained within the Supplementary Material. Conflicts of InterestThe authors declare no conflict of interest. Disclaimer/Publisher's Note: The statements, opinions and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individual author (s) and contributor (s) and not of MDPI and/or the editor (s). MDPI and/or the editor (s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to people or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content. © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4. 0/). Share and Cite MDPI and ACS Style Lukash, O. ; Tkaczenko, H. ; Szikura, A. ; Kurhaluk, N. 137Cs Accumulation by Plants of Floodplain Ecosystems. Proceedings 2024, 105, 42. https: //doi. org/10. 3390/proceedings2024105042 AMA Style Lukash O, Tkaczenko H, Szikura A, Kurhaluk N. 137Cs Accumulation by Plants of Floodplain Ecosystems. Proceedings. 2024; 105 (1): 42. https: //doi. org/10. 3390/proceedings2024105042 Chicago/Turabian Style Lukash, Oleksandr, Halina Tkaczenko, Anita Szikura, and Natalia Kurhaluk. 2024. "137Cs Accumulation by Plants of Floodplain Ecosystems" Proceedings 105, no. 1: 42. https: //doi. org/10. 3390/proceedings2024105042 Article Metrics No No Article Access Statistics Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view.