Source identification of potentially hazardous elements and their relationships with soil properties in agricultural soil of the Pinggu district of Beijing, China: Multivariate statistical analysis and redundancy analysis
The spatial distributions of 8 potentially hazardous elements were determined in 370 soil samples. The sources of the elements were identified by multivariate statistical analyses. The influence of soil properties on elements was addressed by using RDA. Ecological risks were assessed for the evaluated elements in soils.