CONTENTS xvii 



AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS 



Marine Studies 



A Review of Biokinetic and Biological Transport of Transuranic Radionuclides 

 in the Marine Environment 524 



T. M. Beasley and F. A. Cross 



Geochemistry of Transuranic Elements at Bikini Atoll 541 



W. R. Schell F. G. Lownwn. and R. P. Marshall 



Transuranium Radionuclides in Components of the Benthic Environment of 

 Enewetak Atoll 578 



V. E. Nosh kin 



Plutonium and Americium Behavior in the Savannah River Marine Environment 602 



D. W. Hayes and J. H. Norton 



Freshwater 



Patterns of Transuranic Uptake by Aquatic Organisms: Consequences and 

 Implications 612 



L D. Eyman and J. R. Trabalka 



The Migration of Plutonium from a Freshwater Ecosystem at Hanford 625 



Richard M. Emery, Donald C. Klopfer, and M. Colleen McShane 



Plutonium in Rocky Flats Freshwater Systems 644 



D. Paine 



Plutonium in the Great Lakes 659 



M A. Wahlgren, J. A. Robbins, and D. N. Edgington 



Transport of Plutonium by Rivers 684 



H. J. Simpson, R. M. Trier, and C. R. Olsen 



BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS 



Biological Effects of Transuranic Elements in the Environment: Human 

 Effects and Risk Estimates 691 



Roy C. Thompson and Bruce W. Wachholz 



Ecological Effects of Transuranics in the Terrestrial Environment 701 



F. W. Whicker 



Dosimetry and Ecological Effects of Transuranics in the Marine Environment 714 



William L. Templeton 



INDEX 722 



