The present edition of 'Bielefelder Oekologische Beitraege' presents some results of the preceding six years of intensive ecological research in the Biological Reserve 'Reserva Biologica Alberto Manuel Brenes' in Costa Rica. The study area was supposed to be a species rich ecosystem and this led us to select this area as our study site. We wish to ...
Measurement and monitoring of ambient radioactivity levels resulting from operation of nuclear installations is based on environmental samples scanning and gamma dose rate measurements at defined locations in the vicinity of installations. Such measuring and monitoring work, both as a routine or in case of a radiological incident, is a legal obliga...
In 1995 bulk samplers for heavy metals from 15 European countries were compared at the Station Deuselbach of the Federal Environmental Agency of Germany. The samples were analyzed for the 7 heavy metals As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn. The collected precipitation amounts varied between 80 and 98% of the reference instrument. The measured concentrations ...