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Articles | Volume 7, issue 2
Articles | Volume 7, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-399-2021
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Articles | Volume 7, issue 2
Original research article
 | 
08 Jul 2021
Original research article |  | 08 Jul 2021

Assessing soil redistribution of forest and cropland sites in wet tropical Africa using 239+240Pu fallout radionuclides

Florian Wilken, Peter Fiener, Michael Ketterer, Katrin Meusburger, Daniel Iragi Muhindo, Kristof van Oost, and Sebastian Doetterl

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P. TropSOC Database. Version 1.0 Doetterl, S., Bukombe, B., Cooper, M., Kidinda, L., Muhindo, D., Reichenbach, M., Stegmann, A., Summerauer, L., Wilken, F., and Fiener, P. https://dataservices.gfz-potsdam.de/panmetaworks/review/efed3d5f6035ca261a95aaab45704c2d7d69ac1219d4abd3773d5f104a4900d3/

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This study demonstrates the usability of fallout radionuclides 239Pu and 240Pu as a tool to assess soil degradation processes in tropical Africa, which is particularly valuable in regions with limited infrastructure and challenging monitoring conditions for landscape-scale soil degradation monitoring. The study shows no indication of soil redistribution in forest sites but substantial soil redistribution in cropland (sedimentation >40 cm in 55 years) with high variability.
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