Application of a combined approach including contamination indexes, geographic information system and multivariate statistical models in levels, distribution and sources study of metals in soils in Northern China

• Kuixian Huang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Xingzhang Luo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Zheng Zheng

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources

  * E-mail: zzhenghj@fudan.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3255-3040

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