Assessment of soil heavy metal pollution and associated ecological risk of agriculture dominated mid-channel bars in a subtropical river basin

Abstract The elevated concentrations of heavy metals in soil considerably threaten ecological and human health. To this end, the present study assesses metals pollution and its threat to ecology from the mid-channel bar’s (char) agricultural soil in the Damodar River basin, India. For this, the cont...

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Main Authors: Md. Mofizul Hoque, Aznarul Islam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Subodh Chandra Pal, Sadik Mahammad, Edris Alam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38058-0