Ecological risk assessment and source identification of heavy metal pollution in vegetable bases of Urumqi, China, using the positive matrix factorization (PMF) method

• Mireadili Kuerban ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mireadili Kuerban, Balati Maihemuti

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations College of Resources and Environmental Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Balati Maihemuti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mireadili Kuerban, Balati Maihemuti

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bmaihemuti@xju.edu.cn

  Affiliations College of Resources and Environmental Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China, Key Laboratory of Xinjiang General Institutions of Higher Learning for Smart City and Environment Modeling, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3703-7742

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• Yizaitiguli Waili,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation College of Resources and Environmental Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China

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• Tuerxun Tuerhong

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation College of Grassland and Environmental Science, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, China

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