Assessment and source apportionment of toxic metal in soils using integrated positive matrix factorization and Bayesian maximum entropy: A case study in Z county, southeastern China

Soil pollution by toxic metals has become an important environmental problem over the last several decades. Because of environmental factor variation, specific spatial patterns of pollution and sources exist. However, commonly used methods rarely take natural spatial heterogeneity into account. Posi...

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Main Authors: Xufeng Fei, George Christakos, Zhaohan Lou, Rui Xiao, Xiaonan Lv, Zhouqiao Ren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-12-01
Series:Ecological Indicators
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X22011207

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