Environmental Monitoring of Heavy Metal Status and Human Health Risk Assessment in the Agricultural Soils of the Jinxi River Area, China

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 952-971

  Abdelhafez, Ahmed A ^a,b   Li, Jianhua ^a  

^a Tongji University ^*  (China)

^b Agriculture Research Center   (Egypt)

Author keywords

heavy metals; Jinxi River; plants; risk assessment; soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919841400     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2014.947851     Document Type: Article

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