Source identification of eight hazardous heavy metals in agricultural soils of Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 78, Issue , 2012, Pages 2-8

  Cai, Limei ^a,b,c   Xu, Zhencheng ^a,c   Ren, Mingzhong ^a   Guo, Qingwei ^a   Hu, Xibang ^a,c   Hu, Guocheng ^a   Wan, Hongfu ^d   Peng, Pingan ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d GUANGDONG INSTITUTE OF ECO ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOIL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural soils; Heavy metals; Huizhou; Multivariate statistics; Source

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; ZINC;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; HEAVY METAL; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENRICHMENT FACTOR ANALYSIS; INDUSTRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS, HEAVY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; HUIZHOU;

EID: 84862794057     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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