Heavy metal gradients from rural to urban lakes in central China

Abstract Background Limited information is available on heavy metal patterns in lakes under rapid watershed urbanization, especially considering a large spatial gradient with a long linear distance and great variations in topographic relief. To fill this gap, we studied concentrations of a series of...

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Main Authors: Wentong Xia, Rui Wang, Bin Zhu, Lars G. Rudstam, Yinglong Liu, Yanxue Xu, Wei Xin, Yushun Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-09-01
Series:Ecological Processes
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13717-020-00251-8