| Literature DB >> 26307689 |
Md Saiful Islam1, Md Kawser Ahmed, Md Habibullah-Al-Mamun, Mohammad Raknuzzaman.
Abstract
Bogra city is highly susceptible to environmental pollution due to overpopulation, rapid industrialization, and urbanization during the last decades. The levels of six trace elements (chromium, nickel, copper, arsenic, cadmium, and lead) in seven different land use soils in Bangladesh were assessed. The ranges of Cr, Ni, Cu, As, Cd, and Pb in studied soils were 6.3-256, 8.3-271, 13-279, 7.5-87, 0.09-29, and 5.3-624 mg/kg, respectively. The pollution load index (PLI) values for all land uses were higher than 1, indicating the progressive deterioration of soil due to trace elements contamination. In view of the potential ecological risk (PER), soils from all land uses showed moderate to very high potential ecological risk. Among the elements, As and Cd showed a higher potential ecological risk than the others.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID： 26307689 DOI： 10.1007/s10661-015-4803-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Environ Monit Assess ISSN： 0167-6369 Impact factor: 2.513