Health risk assessment of heavy metals in arid soils of the Nile Delta, Egypt using GIS and multivariate statistical analyses

• Ehab Hendawy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt, Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Agricultural Research in Arid Regions, Ain shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Abdel-Aziz Belal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt

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• Nazih Y. Rebouh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Environmental Engineering, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia

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• Mohamed S. Shokr ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mohamed_shokr@agr.tanta.edu.eg

  Affiliation Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0328-7679

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• Abd El Aziz S. Sheta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Soil Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Ahmed M. Saleh,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt

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• Ayman F. Abou-Hadid

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain shams University, Cairo, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0548-7447

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