Long description
Figure 1 shows a flow diagram which begins ‘plant emissions’ from a power plant that flow to two boxes via an arrow labelled ‘air dispersion’.
The 2 boxes are labelled, ‘wet and dry deposition’, and ‘air concentration’.
From air concentration, there are 3 arrows, one that is labelled ‘inhalation’ and leads to the end of the diagram, to a box labelled ‘receptor – mother’s milk, ingestion’; one that is labelled ‘diffusion’ and is pointed to a depiction of a field; and one arrow is leads to a box labelled ‘water concentration’. From ‘water concentration’, there are two arrows, one labelled ‘water consumption’ and leading to end of the diagram, and the other labelled ‘bioconcentration’ and leading to a box labelled ‘fish concentration’. From there is an arrow labelled ‘fish consumption’ and leading to the end of the diagram.
Back to the box labelled ‘wet and dry deposition, there are two arrows, one leading to ‘water concentration’, from where it follows the same path as previously described from there, and one arrow labelled ‘deposition’ that leads to a box labelled ‘plant concentration’. From this box there are 3 arrows leading from it and one to it:
- The arrow leading to it is labelled ‘root uptake’ and is from a box labelled ‘soil concentration’.
- The first arrow leading from it is labelled ‘plant consumption’ and leads to a box labelled ‘animal concentration’, which then leads to the end of the diagram via an arrow labelled ‘meat and dairy consumption’.
- The other two arrows leading from it lead to the end of the diagram, one is labelled ‘above ground vegetable ingestion’, and the other ‘below ground vegetable ingestion’.
Back to the box labelled ‘soil concentration’, there are three other arrows from it as well as the one previously described to ‘plant concentration’:
- The first arrow is labelled ‘erosion, leaching and runoff’ and leads to ‘water concentration’, from where the flow chart follows the same path as previously described from there.
- The second arrow is labelled ‘soil ingestion’ and leads to the end of the diagram.
- The third arrow leads to ‘animal concentration’, and follows the same path as previously described from there.