A Tropical rain forest
Subtitle: a study of irradiation and ecology at El Verde, Puerto Rico.
By: Howard T. Odum, editor and project director. Robert F. Pigeon, associate editor.
Contributors: Odum, Howard T., 1924- ed.; Pigeon, Robert F., ed.; U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Publisher: Division of Technical Information, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; [available from Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va.]
Published: 1970
Place of publication: [Oak Ridge, Tenn.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Radioecology -- Puerto Rico -- El Verde region.; Rain forests -- Puerto Rico -- El Verde region.; El Verde region, P.R.
Description: A 10,000-curie ¹³⁷Cs gamma source was placed by helicopter at the center of a selected site in the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico. The source was operated for three months after which it was retracted into its shield and eventually removed. Immediately upon termination of the irradiation, detailed effects studies began with quantitative comparisons of the status of the main site before irradiation with that developing subsequently. The studies described in this volume deal with the impact of gamma radiation on species and also with the more abstract phenomenology associated with the modification of ecological systems.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"Results of the Atomic Energy Commission Rain Forest Project, 1963-1967."