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    where A is the activity concentration (Bq kg−1) or (Bq l−1), Cn is the net counts under a given peak area, T the sample counting time, (varepsilon) is the detection efficiency at measured energy, P is the emission probability and V is the sample volume in liter, M is the sample mass in kilogram. Minimum detectable activity (MDA) was estimated according to Currie definition using Eq. 212 and the MDA values were 0.031, 0.035 and 1.94 Bq L−1 for 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K, respectively.$${text{MDA}} = frac{2.71 + 465sqrt B }{{T times varepsilon times P times V}}$$
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    where B is the background counts under a given peak area,T,ɛ, P, and V are defined above.Doses for aquatic organismsThe external and internal absorbed dose rate for aquatic organisms (Phytoplankton, Mollusca, and Crustacean) in the studied irrigation drains was calculated based on the measured activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K in environmental media (water and sediment) and using dose conversion coefficients of a given radionuclide for the reference organisms according to the method outlined by Brown et al. described below13,14.$$begin{aligned}& left( {Sediment,, conc. ,,wet} right)_{radionuclide} = (Sediment ,,conc. ,,dry)_{radionuclide} times left( {solids ,,fraction} right) \& qquad qquad + (water ,,conc.)_{radionuclide} times (1 – left( {solids ,,fraction} right). \ end{aligned}$$
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    $$begin{aligned}& left( {user2{External ,,dose ,,rate}} right)_{radionuclide,, organism} = DPUC_{radionuclide, ,organism}^{external} times left[ {Sediment ,conc. ,wet_{radionuclide} times left( {fsed_{organism} + fsedsur_{organism} /2} right)} right. \& quad quad left. { + left( {fwater_{organism} + fsedsur_{organism} /2} right) times water ,conc._{radionuclide } /1000} right] \ end{aligned}$$
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    where sediment conc. is the sediment activity concentration of a given radionuclide in Bq kg−1,water conc. is the water activity concentration of a given radionuclide in Bq m−3, CF is distribution coefficient factors for given radionuclide in freshwater sediment in m3 kg−1, DPUC is the dose rate per unit concentration coefficients (fresh weight) in μGy h−1 per Bq kg−1 weighted for radiation type (alpha = 10, low energy beta = 3, and high energy beta and gamma = 1), solids fraction of wet sediment (0.4), fsed organism is the time fraction spends by organism in sediment, fsedsur organism is the time fraction spends by organism at the sediment/water interface, fwater organism is the time fraction spends by organism in the water column. All parameters used in calculation are taken from Pröhl (2003)15 and Vives i Battle et al. (2004)16. The total dose is then calculated by summating the external and internal doses. More

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    Biomass yield and WUEBiomass increased with precipitation, as expected and reported in Lee3. There was less water uptake in intercropping compared to sole oat and pea. In general, intercropping represented the median of the two sole cropping treatments, where oat had the highest biomass and WUE while pea had the lowest, and where pea had the highest mineral content and oat had the lowest3. Intercropping resulted in advantages in forage yield stability and was not associated with changes to the AMF community.Alpha diversityWe found differences in AMF species richness estimates in the roots across treatment combinations (i.e., intercropping systems × N fertilizer rate) in 2019 (Chao1, p  More

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