Why is the multiple stressor concept of relevance to radioecology?

Conclusions: Following severe nuclear events, releases can be described as a massive multiple stressor exposure containing radionuclides combined with other stressors. Thus, advanced characterization technologies are needed for parameterization of the mixed stressor source term as input to ecosystem transport, dose and impact models. To reduce uncertainties in assessments of these complex exposures, advanced technologies and computational efforts to link internal distributions to responses are also needed to understand how multiple stressor exposure could affect toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics, and why combined exposures could depart from additivity along the source - adverse outcome continuum. PMID: 30971149 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: International Journal of Radiation Biology - Category: Radiology Tags: Int J Radiat Biol Source Type: research