Fig 1.
Hatched markings show Holocene loose mass deposits, orange hatched markings show anthropogenic deposits, blue show densely populated areas and for bedrock rusty is redrock, light chocolate is ankerite, green is søvite, and moccasin is fenite and other Fen bedrock. Generated in R using data from the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) and the Norwegian Mapping Authority (https://kartkatalog.geonorge.no). X and Y axis are eastern and northern UTM 32 GPS coordinates (WGS84).
Fig 2.
Boxplot of amount of dried litter filled in fine-meshed and coarser-meshed litterbags before one deployment.
Fig 3.
Boxplot of size fraction >2 mm of soil samples among localities within Mining hill.
Fig 4.
Boxplot of pH of soil samples among localities within Mining hill.
Fig 5.
Boxplot of organic matter (OM) fraction of soil samples among localities from Mining hill.
Fig 6.
Boxplot of moist fraction of soil samples among localities within Mining hill.
Fig 7.
Boxplot of 228Ra (Bq kg-1 d.w.) of soil samples among localities within Mining hill.
Fig 8.
Boxplot of 226Ra (Bq kg-1 d.w.) of soil samples among localities within Mining hill.
Fig 9.
Boxplot of 210Pb to 226Ra ratio of soil samples among localities within Mining hill.
Fig 10.
Boxplot of 137Cs (Bq kg-1 d.w.) of soil samples among localities within Mining hill.
Table 1.
Correlation strength and significance.
Table 2.
Spatial heterogeneity.
Fig 11.
Boxplot of external dose rate estimated with the ERICA tool for an annelid.
Fig 12.
Boxplots of the total dose rate among localities for the four organisms modelled in ERICA tool.
Table 3.
Radionuclide dose rates.
Fig 13.
During one year of exposure from litterbags with coarse (2 mm) and fine (0.1 mm) mesh size when litter was either dried in oven (60⁰C) or at room temperature (20 ⁰C).
Table 4.
Full versions of the two best statistical models.
Table 5.
Comparison of statistical null models (Null), activity concentration models (AC) and dose rate models (DR).
Table 6.
Parameter estimates (β±SE) with the two best simplified linear models of log10 litter loss, with log10 transformation of fraction of organic matter (OM), pH, fraction of soil particle size>2mm (>2mm), 226Ra and dose rate of organism (tube-shape DR), but not for litter drying regime (dried_oven).