2023
Beresford, N.A., Gashchak, S., Wood, M.D., Barnett, C.L., (2023). Mammals in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone's Red Forest: a motion-activated camera trap study. Earth System Science Data, 15, 2, 911-920. (OPEN ACCESS)
2022
Gashchak, S., Barnett, C.L., Beresford, N.A., Paskevych, S., Wood, M.D. (2022). Estimating the population density of Eurasian lynx in the Ukranianan part of the Chornobyl exclusion zone using camera trap footage. Proceedings of the Theriological School, 23, 47-65. (OPEN ACCESS)
Beresford, N.A., Gashchak, S., Wood, M.D., Barnett, C.L. (2022). Current ionising radiation doses in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone do not directly impact on soil biological activity. PLOS ONE, 17 (2). 0263600. (OPEN ACCESS)
Fuller,N., Smith, J.T.,Takase, T., Ford, A.T., Wada, T. (2022). Radiocaesium accumulation and fluctuating asymmetry in the Japanese mitten crab, Eriocheir japonica, along a gradient of radionuclide contamination at Fukushima. Environmental Pollution. 292, Part B. 118479.
Burrows, J.E., Copplestone, D., Raines, K.E., Beresford, N.A., Tinsley, M.C. 2022. Ecologically relevant radiation exposure triggers elevated metabolic rate and nectar consumption in bumblebees. Functional Ecology, 91, 7, 1327-1553.
2021
Beresford, N.A., Barnett, C.L., Gashchak, S., Kashparov, V., Kireev, S., Levchuk, S., Morozova, V., Smith, J.T., Wood, M.D. (2021). Wildfires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – risks, consequences and management. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4424 (OPEN ACCESS)
Antwis, R.E., Beresford, N.A., Jackson, J.A., Fawkes, R., Barnett, C.L., Potter, E., Walker, L., Gaschak, S., Wood, M.D. (2021). Impacts of radiation on the bacterial and fungal microbiome of small mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90, 2172-2187. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13507 (OPEN ACCESS)
2020
Barnett, C.L., Beresford, N.A., Wood, M.D., Izquierdo, M., Walker, L.A., Fawkes, R. (2020). Element and radionuclide concentrations in soils and wildlife from forests in north-east England with a focus on species representative of the ICRP's Reference Animals and Plants. Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3021-2020 (OPEN ACCESS)
Raines K.E. (2020) Chernobyl: bumblebees still at risk from radiation nearly 35 years on. THE CONVERSATION.
Raines K.E., Whitehorn P.R., Copplestone D., Tinsley M.C. (2020). Chernobyl-level radiation exposure damages bumblebee reproduction: a laboratory experiment. Proc. R. Soc. B.28720201638. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1638
Vives i Batlle, J., Sazykina, T., Kryshev, A., Wood, M.D., Smith, K., Copplestone, D., Biermans, G. (2020). Modelling the effects of ionising radiation on a vole population from the Chernobyl Red forest in an ecological context. Ecological Modelling, 438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109306
Vernon, E.L., Moore, M.N., Bean, T. P., Jha, A.N. (2020). Evaluation of interactive effects of phosphorus-32 and copper on marine and freshwater bivalve molluscs. International Journal of Radiation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09553002.2020.1823032 (OPEN ACCESS)
Lerebours A., Robson S., Sharpe C., Nagorskaya, L., Gudkov, D., Haynes-Lovatt, C., Smith, J. T. (2020). Transcriptional changes in the ovaries of perch from Chernobyl. Environ Sci Technol., 2020, 54(16), 10078-10087. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c02575 (OPEN ACCESS)
Kashparov, V., Levchuk, S., Zhurba, M., Protsak, V., Beresford, N.A., Chaplow, J.S. (2020). Spatial radionuclide deposition data from the 60 km radial area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant: results from a sampling survey in 1987. Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-174 (OPEN ACCESS)
Izquierdo, M., Young, S.D., Bailey, E.H., Crout, N.M.J., Lofts, S., Chenery, S.R., Shaw, GS. (2020). Kinetics of uranium(VI) lability and solubility in aerobic soils. Chemosphere. 127246.
Izquierdo, M., Bailey, E.H., Crout, N.M.J., Sanders, H.K., Young, S.D., Shaw, G.S. (2020). Kinetics of 99Tc speciation in aerobic soils. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 388, 121762.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121762 (OPEN ACCESS)
Caplin, N.M., Haliday, A., Willey, N.J. (2020). Developmental, Morphological and Physiological Traits in Plants Exposed for Five Generations to Chronic Low-Level Ionising Radiation. Front. Plant Sci. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00389 (OPEN ACCESS)
Beresford, N.A., Horemans, N., Copplestone, D., Raines, K.E., Orizaola, G., Wood, M.D., Laanen, P., Whitehead, H.C., Burrows, J.E., Tinsley, M.C., Smith, J.T., Bonzom, J.-M., Gagnaire, B., Adam-Guillermin, C., Gashchak, S., Jha, A.N., de Menezes, A., Willey, N., Spurgeon, D. (2020). Towards solving a scientific controversy – The effects of ionising radiation on the environment. J. Environ. Radioact., 211, 106033 (OPEN ACCESS)
Beresford, N.A., Barnett, C.L., Gashchak, S., Maksimenko, A., Guliaichenko, E., Wood, M.D., Izquierdo, M. (2020). Radionuclide transfer to wildlife at a ‘Reference site’ in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and resultant radiation exposures. J. Environ. Radioact., 211, 105661 (OPEN ACCESS)
Beresford, N.A., Scott, E.M., Copplestone, D. (2020). Field effects studies in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: Lessons to be learnt. J. Environ. Radioact., 211, 105893 (OPEN ACCESS)
Smith, J. (2020). Field evidence of significant effects of radiation on wildlife at chronic low dose rates is weak and often misleading. A comment on “Is non-human species radiosensitivity in the lab a good indicator of that in the field? Making the comparison more robust” by Beaugelin-Seiller et al. J. Environ. Radioact., 211, 105895 (OPEN ACCESS)
Vernon, E.L., Bean, T.M., Jha, A.N. (2020). Assessing relative biomarker responses in marine and freshwater bivalve molluscs following exposure to phosphorus 32 (32P): Application of genotoxicological and molecular biomarkers. J. Environ. Radioact., 213, 106120.
2019
Aramrun, K., Beresford, N.A., Skuterud, L., Hevroy, T.H., Drefvelin, J., Yurosko, C., Phruksarojanakun, P., Esoa, J., Yongprawat, M., Siegenthaler, A., Fawkes, R., Tumnoi, W., Wood, M.D. (2019). Measuring the radiation exposure of Norwegian reindeer under field conditions. Sci. Tot. Environ., 687, 1337-1343. (OPEN ACCESS)
Beresford, N.A., Willey, N. (2019). Moving radiation protection on from the limitations of empirical concentration ratios. J. Environ. Radioact., 208-209, 106020. (OPEN ACCESS)
Brown, J.E., Beresford, N.A., Hevrøy, T.H. (2019). Exploring taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships to predict radiocaesium transfer to marine biota. Sci. Tot. Environ., 649, 916-928
Fuller, N., Ford, A.T., Lerebours, A., Gudkov, D., Nagorskaya, L.L., Smith, J.T. (2019). Chronic radiation exposure at Chernobyl shows no effect on genetic diversity in the freshwater crustacean, Asellus aquaticus thirty years on. Ecol. Evol., 2019, 00:1-11 (OPEN ACCESS)
Fuller, N., Smith, J.T., Ford, A.T. (2019). Impacts of ionising radiation on sperm quality, DNA integrity and postfertilisation development in marine and freshwater crustaceans. Ecotox. Environ. Saf., 186, 109764. (OPEN ACCESS)
Goodman, J., Copplestone, D., Laptev, G.V., Gashchak, S., Auld, S.K.J.R. (2019). Variation in chronic radiation exposure does not drive life history divergence among Daphnia populations across the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Ecol. Evol., 1-11. (OPEN ACCESS)
Shaw, G., Bailey, E., Crout, N., Field, L., Freeman, L., Gaschak, S., Hou, X., Izquierdo, M., Wells, C., Xu, S., Young, S. (2019). Analysis of 129I and 127I in soils of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 29 years after the deposition of 129I. Sci. Tot. Environ., 692, 966-974 (OPEN ACESS)
Vernon, E.L., Jha, A.N. (2019). Assessing relative sensitivity of marine and freshwater bivalves following exposure to copper: Application of classical and novel genotoxicological biomarkers. Mutat. Res. Genet. Toxicol. Environ. Mutagen., 842, 60-71
2018
Aramrun, P., Beresford, N.A., Wood, M.D. (2018). Selecting passive dosimetry technologies for measuring the external dose of terrestrial wildlife. J. Environ. Radioact., 182, 128-137. (OPEN ACCESS)
Caplin, N., Willey, N.J. Ionising radiation, higher plants & radioprotection: From acute high doses to chronic low doses. Front. Plant. Sci., 9, 847. (OPEN ACCESS)
Fuller, N., Ford, A.T., Nagorskaya, L.L., Gudkov, D.I., Smith, J.T. (2018). Reproduction in the freshwater crustacean Asellus aquaticus along a gradient of radionuclide contamination at Chernobyl. Sci. Tot. Environ., 628-629, 11-17. (OPEN ACCESS). See video https://t.co/AnlcIeeQO9
Guillén, J., Beresford, N.A., Baeza, A., Izquierdo, M., Wood, M.D., Salas, A., Muñoz-Serrano, A., Corrales-Vázquez, J.M., Muñoz-Muñoz, J.G. (2018). Transfer parameters for ICRP's Reference Animals and Plants in a terrestrial Mediterranean ecosystem. J. Environ. Radioact., 186, 9-22. (OPEN ACCESS)
Kashparov, V., Levchuk, S., Zhurba, M., Protsak, V., Khomutinin, Yu., Beresford, N.A., Chaplow, J.S. (2018). Spatial datasets of radionuclide contamination in the Ukrainian Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 339-353. (OPEN ACCESS)
Lerebours, A., Gudkov, D., Nagorkaya, L., Kaglyan, A., Rizewski, V., Leshchenko, A., Bailey, E.H., Bakir, A., Ovsyanikova, S., Laptev, G., Smith, J.T. (2018). Impact of environmental radiation on the health and reproductive status of fish from Chernobyl. Environ. Sci. Technol., 52, 9442-9450
Tagami, K., Uchida, S., Wood, M.D., Beresford, N.A. (2018). Radiocaesium transfer and radiation exposure of frogs in Fukushima Prefecture. Scientific Reports, 8, 10662. (OPEN ACCESS)
Thorne, M.C. (2018). Radioecology in Europe. J. Radiol. Prot., 38, E5-E9
Vernon, E.L., Smith, J.T., Jha, A.N. (2018). Relative comparison of tissue specific bioaccumulation and radiation dose estimation in marine and freshwater bivalve molluscs following exposure to phosphorus-32. J. Environ. Radioact., 192, 312-320.
2017
Caravaggi, A., Banks, P., Burton, C., Finlay, C.M.V., Haswell, P.M., Hayward, M., Rowcliffe, J.M., Wood, M.D. (2017). A review of camera trapping for conservation behaviour research. Remote Sens. Ecol. Conserv., 3, 109-122. (OPEN ACCESS)
Cresswell, T., Metian, M., Golding, L.A., Wood, M.D. (2017). Aquatic live animal radiotracing studies for ecotoxicological applications: Addressing fundamental methodological deficiencies. J. Environ. Radioact., 178-179, 453-460. (OPEN ACCESS)
Fuller, N., Smith, J.T., Nagorskaya, L.L., Gudkov, D.I., Ford, A.T. (2017). Does Chernobyl-derived radiation impact the developmental stability of Asellus aquaticus 30 years on? Sci. Tot. Environ., 576, 242-250. (OPEN ACCESS)
Gashchak, S., Gulyaichenko, Y., Beresford, N.A., Wood, M.D. (2017). European Bison (Bison bonus) in the Chornobyl exclusion zone (Ukraine) and prospects for its revival. Proceedings of the Theriological School, 15, 58-66. (OPEN ACCESS)
Guillen, J., Baeza, A., Beresford, N.A., Wood, M.D. (2017). Do fungi need to be included within environmental radiation protection assessment models? J. Environ. Radioact., 175, 70-77. (OPEN ACCESS).
Siasou, E., Johnson, D., Willey, N.J. (2017). An extended dose-response model for microbial responses to ionizing radiation. Frontiers in Environ. Sci., 03 February 2017. (OPEN ACCESS)
Smith, J.T., Tagami, K., Uchida, S. (2017). Time trends in radiocaesium in the Japanese diet following nuclear weapons testing and Chernobyl: Implications for long term contamination post-Fukushima. Sci. Tot. Environ.,60-602, 1466-1475. (OPEN ACCESS)
Willey, N. (2017). Chernobyl; The disaster zone becomes a laboratory. Research Features 119, 42-45
2016
Beresford, N.A., Wood, M.D., Vives i Battle, J., Yankovich, T.L., Bradshaw, C., Willey, N. (2016). Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models. J. Environ. Radioact., 151, 373-386. (OPEN ACCESS)
Beresford, N.A., Gaschak, S., Maksimenko, A., Wood, M.D. (2016). The Transfer of 137Cs, Pu isotopes and 90Sr to bird, bat and ground-dwelling small mammal species within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. J. Environ. Radioact., 153, 231-236 (OPEN ACCESS). Video abstract http://bit.ly/1JesKPc
Beresford, N.A., Fesenko, S., Konoplev, A., Smith, J.T., Skuterud, L., Voigt, G. (2016). Thirty years after the Chernobyl accident – 30 key papers published in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. J. Environ. Radioact., 157, 38-40. (OPEN ACCESS)
Beresford, N.A., Fesenko, S., Konoplev, A., Skuterud, L., Smith, J.T., Voigt, G. (2016). Thirty years after the Chernobyl accident: What lessons have we learnt? J. Environ. Radioact., 157, 77-89. (OPEN ACCESS)
Gashchak, S., Gulyaichenko, Y., Beresford, N.A., Wood, M.D. (2016). Brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Proceedings of the Theriological School, 14, 71-84. (OPEN ACCESS)
Howard, B.J., Wells, C., Barnett, C.L., Sheppard, S.C. (2016). How knowledge of the gastrointestinal absorption of elements could be used to predict transfer to milk. Sci. Rep., 6, 37041 1-7. (OPEN ACCESS)
Wood, M., Beresford, N.A. (2016). The wildlife of Chernobyl: 30 years without man. The Biologist, 63, 16-19
2015
Deryabina, T.G., Kuchmel, S.V., Nagorskaya, L.L., Hinton, T.G., Beasley, J.C., Lerebours, A., Smith, J.T. (2015). Long term census data reveal abundant wildlife populations at Chernobyl. Current Biology Magazine, 25, R824-R826. (OPEN ACCESS)
Fuller, N., Lerebours, A., Smith, J.T., Ford, A.T. (2015). The biological effects of ionising radiation on Crustaceans: A review. Aquatic. Toxic., 167, 55-67. (OPEN ACCESS)
Siasou, E., Willey, N. (2015). Inter-Taxa differences in iodine uptake by plants: implications for food quality and contamination. Agronomy, 5, 537-554. (OPEN ACCESS)
Wood., M.D., Beresford, N.A. (2015). Wolves, boar and other wildlife defy contamination to make a comeback at Chernobyl. The Conversation