About the Authors

Nicholas A. Beresford

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas A. Beresford, Michael D. Wood, Sergey Gashchak, Catherine L. Barnett

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nab@ceh.ac.uk

Affiliations UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom, School of Science, Engineering & Environment, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Michael D. Wood

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas A. Beresford, Michael D. Wood, Sergey Gashchak, Catherine L. Barnett

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Science, Engineering & Environment, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Sergey Gashchak

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas A. Beresford, Michael D. Wood, Sergey Gashchak, Catherine L. Barnett

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Radioecology Laboratory, Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste & Radioecology, Slavutych, Kyiv Region, Ukraine

Catherine L. Barnett

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas A. Beresford, Michael D. Wood, Sergey Gashchak, Catherine L. Barnett

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.