Assessment of heavy metal (HM) contamination in agricultural soil lands in northern Telangana, India: an approach of spatial distribution and multivariate statistical analysis

• Published in: Environmental monitoring and assessment Vol. 191; no. 4; p. 246
• Main Authors: Adimalla, Narsimha, Qian, Hui, Wang, Haike
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abundance; Agricultural land; Agricultural pollution; agricultural soils; Agriculture; anthropogenic activities; Anthropogenic factors; Arsenic; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; barium; Chromium; Cobalt; Contamination; Copper; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecology; Ecotoxicology; Eigenvalues; Environment; Environmental Management; Environmental Monitoring - methods; Environmental Pollution - analysis; Fertilizers; Food chains; Food contamination & poisoning; guidelines; Heavy metals; India; Lead; Load distribution; Metals, Heavy - analysis; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Multivariate Analysis; Multivariate statistical analysis; Nickel; Pesticides; Pollutant load; Pollution; Pollution index; Pollution load; principal component analysis; Principal components analysis; Risk Assessment; Soil; Soil - chemistry; Soil contamination; Soil Pollutants - analysis; Soil pollution; Soil quality; soil sampling; Spatial analysis; Spatial distribution; Statistical analysis; Statistical methods; Statistics; Toxicity; vanadium; variance; Zinc; India; China; Spatial distribution; Statistical analysis; Geo-accumulation index; Heavy metal contamination; Ecological risk assessment

The contamination of heavy metals (HMs) in agricultural soil lands has attracted the environmental world due to their abundance, persistence, and toxicity. A study has been conducted to evaluate the degree of HM contamination in the agricultural soils of northern Telangana, using geo-accumulation in...