Heavy-metal accumulation trends in Yixing, China: An area of rapid economic development

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-86

  Wu, Shaohua ^a,b   Zhou, Shenglu ^a   Li, Xingong ^b   Johnson, William C ^b   Zhang, Hongfu ^a   Shi, Jiangfeng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Dendrochemistry; Geochemistry; Heavy metals; Urban covered soils

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; CHINA; DENDROCHEMISTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HIGH RATE; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; METAL ACCUMULATION; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL ELEMENTS; TIME PERIODS; TREE-CORE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; GEOCHEMISTRY; LEAD; METALS; SOILS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HEAVY METAL; RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL COVER; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; JIANGSU; YIXING;

EID: 77953887261     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0321-0     Document Type: Article

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