| Titre : | A strategy for describing the biosphere at candidate sites for repositories of nuclear waste: Linking ecosystem and landscape modeling |
| Auteurs : | Tobias Lindborg, Auteur ; Regina Lindborg, Auteur ; Anders Lofgren, Auteur ; Bjorn Soderback, Auteur ; Clare Bradshaw, Auteur ; Ulrik Kautsky, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | AMBIO (35(8) DEC 2006) |
| Article en page(s) : | 418-424 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : | To provide information necessary for a license application for a deep repository for spent nuclear fuel, the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. has started site investigations at two sites in Sweden. In this paper, we present a strategy to integrate site-specific ecosystem data into spatially explicit models needed for safety assessment studies and the environmental impact assessment. The site-specific description of ecosystems is developed by building discipline-specific models from primary data and by identifying interactions and stocks and flows of matter among functional units at the sites. The conceptual model is a helpful initial tool for defining properties needed to quantify system processes, which may reveal new interfaces between disciplines, providing a variety of new opportunities to enhance the understanding of the linkages between ecosystem characteristics and the functional properties of landscapes. This type of integrated ecosystem - landscape characterization model has an important role in forming the implementation of a safety assessment for a deep repository. |



