Sources of heavy metals in surface sediments and an ecological risk assessment from two adjacent Plateau reservoirs.

The concentrations of heavy metals (mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu) and arsenic (As)) in surface water and sediments were investigated in two adjacent drinking water reservoirs (Hongfeng and Baihua Reservoirs) on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in Southwest China. Possib...

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Main Authors: Binbin Wu, Guoqiang Wang, Jin Wu, Qing Fu, Changming Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4092113?pdf=render