Assessing the spatial distribution and sources of heavy metal pollution in the snow cover: A case study from Pavlodar, Northeastern Kazakhstan

• Alina Faurat ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: faurat.aa@teachers.tou.edu.kz

  Affiliation Department of Geography and Tourism, Toraighyrov University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9878-8224

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• Dinara Yessimova,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Geography and Tourism, Toraighyrov University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan

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• Gulmira Satybaldiyeva,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Astana, Kazakhstan

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• Askhat Kuatbayev,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Astana, Kazakhstan

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• Aizhan Utarbayeva,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Astana, Kazakhstan

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• Ainagul Kaliyeva,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Ecology, Toraighyrov University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan

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• Kairat Akhmetov,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Ecology, Toraighyrov University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan

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• Shujaul Mulk Khan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Zeeshan Ahmad,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China

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• Seilkhan Rakhmanov

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Astana, Kazakhstan

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