Assessment of Anthropogenic Sources of Potentially Toxic Elements in Soil from Arable Land Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Random Forest Analysis

In order to study the spatial distribution and anthropogenic sources of potentially toxic elements in Xiangzhou, soil samples were collected from arable land and were analyzed for five different potentially toxic elements: Cd, Hg, As, Pb, and Cr. Inverse distance weighting (IDW) was used to study th...

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Main Authors: He Huang, Yong Zhou, Yujie Liu, Ke Li, Liang Xiao, Mengyao Li, Yang Tian, Fei Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/20/8538