Prediction of soil cadmium distribution across a typical area of Chengdu Plain, China

Abstract A suitable method and appropriate environmental variables are important for accurately predicting heavy metal distribution in soils. However, the classical methods (e.g., ordinary kriging (OK)) have a smoothing effect that results in a tendency to neglect local variability, and the commonly...

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Main Authors: Qiquan Li, Changquan Wang, Tianfei Dai, Wenjiao Shi, Xin Zhang, Yi Xiao, Weiping Song, Bing Li, Yongdong Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07690-y