Current ionising radiation doses in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone do not directly impact on soil biological activity

• 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

  * E-mail: 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-0238

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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