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Biblioteca Response of dissolved trace metals to land use/land cover and their source apportionment using a receptor model in a subtropic river, China

Response of dissolved trace metals to land use/land cover and their source apportionment using a receptor model in a subtropic river, China

Response of dissolved trace metals to land use/land cover and their source apportionment using a receptor model in a subtropic river, China

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Date of publication
Diciembre 2011
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AGRIS:US201500191037
Pages
205-213

Water samples were collected for determination of dissolved trace metals in 56 sampling sites throughout the upper Han River, China. Multivariate statistical analyses including correlation analysis, stepwise multiple linear regression models, and principal component and factor analysis (PCA/FA) were employed to examine the land use influences on trace metals, and a receptor model of factor analysis-multiple linear regression (FA-MLR) was used for source identification/apportionment of anthropogenic heavy metals in the surface water of the River. Our results revealed that land use was an important factor in water metals in the snow melt flow period and land use in the riparian zone was not a better predictor of metals than land use away from the river. Urbanization in a watershed and vegetation along river networks could better explain metals, and agriculture, regardless of its relative location, however slightly explained metal variables in the upper Han River. FA-MLR analysis identified five source types of metals, and mining, fossil fuel combustion, and vehicle exhaust were the dominant pollutions in the surface waters. The results demonstrated great impacts of human activities on metal concentrations in the subtropical river of China.

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Li, Siyue
Zhang, Quanfa

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