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Statistics and Sampling in Transuranic Studies 173 



L. L. Eberhardt and R. O. Gilbert 



Appropriate Use of Ratios in Environmental Transuranic Element Studies 187 



P. G. Doctor, R. O. Gilbert, and J. E. Finder III 



TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS 

 Experimental Studies 



Review of Resuspension Models 209 



/. W. Healy 



Transuranic and Tracer Simulant Resuspension 236 



G. A. Sehmel 



Interaction of Airborne Plutonium with Plant Foliage 288 



D. A. Cataldo and B. E. Vaughan 



The Relationsliip of Microbial Processes to the Fate and Behavior of 

 Transuranic Elements in Soils, Plants, and Animals 300 



R. E. Wildung and T. R. Garland 



Uptake of Transuranic Nuclides from Soil by Plants Grown Under Controlled 

 Environmental Conditions 336 



D. C. Adriano, A. Wallace, and E. M. Romney 



Comparative Uptake and Distribution of Plutonium, Americium, Curium, and 

 Neptunium in Four Plant Species 361 



R. G. Schreckhise and J. F. Cline 



Field Studies 



Comparative Distribution of Plutonium in Contaminated Ecosystems at 

 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico 371 



Roger C. Dahlman. Charles T. Garten, Jr.. and Thomas E. Hakonson 



Plutonium Contents of Field Crops in the Southeastern United States 381 



D. C. Adriano, J. C. Corey, and R. C Dahlman 



Ecological Relationships of Plutonium in Southwest Ecosystems 403 



T. E. Hakonson and J. W. Nyhan 



Plutonium in a Grassland Ecosystem 420 



Craig A. Little 



Transuranic Elements in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems 441 



Wayne C. Hanson 



Models 



Nevada Applied Ecology Group Model for Estimating Plutonium Transport 

 and Dose to Man 459 



W. E. Martin and S. G. Bloom 



A Model of Plutonium Dynamics in a Deciduous Forest Ecosystem 513 



Charles T. Garten, Jr., Robert H. Gardner, and Roger C. Dahlman 



