Blackwell Publishing Ltd Determinants of interspecific variation in population declines of birds after exposure to radiation at Chernobyl-PDF

World-wide, thousands of square kilometres of land are radioactively contaminated, mainly as a result of the Chernobyl disaster but also as a result of tests with nuclear bombs. Furthermore, there is considerable natural variation in background radiation, with many areas reaching non-negligible levels. Yet the ecological and evolutionary consequences of human-induced and natural variation in radiation remain poorly known.