The effect of heavy metal contamination on humans and animals in the vicinity of a zinc smelting facility

• Xiaoyun Shen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China, State Engineering Technology Institute for Karst Desertification Control, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China, World Bank Poverty Alleviation Project Office in Guizhou, Southwest China, Guiyang, China

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• Yongkuan Chi ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation State Engineering Technology Institute for Karst Desertification Control, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China

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• Kangning Xiong

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xiongkn@163.com

  Affiliation State Engineering Technology Institute for Karst Desertification Control, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4375-0157

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