Fig 1.
Plant and soil sampling area at Zaida abandoned mine.
Fig 2.
Metal(loid)s concentrations (mg kg−1 DW) in soil sampled from Zaida mine.
Table 1.
The potential ecological risk coefficient (Ei) and the potential ecological risk index (ERI) of soil in Zaida abandoned mining site.
Fig 3.
Metal Enrichment Factor in soils sampled from the Zaida mine.
Table 2.
List of dominant plant species in the vicinity of the studied site.
Table 3.
Results of variance analysis (One-way ANOVA) comparing the difference in metal concentration among species (dF = 6).
Table 4.
Potentially toxic elements concentrations in shoots and roots (data in mg kg−1 DW) of dominant plant species collected from the studied site.
Table 5.
Bioconcentration factor (BCF), Translocation factor (TF) and Biological accumulation coefficient (BAC) for the studied plants species.
Fig 4.
Principal Components Analysis (PCA) on the means of the metal(loid)s concentrations separately in the shoots (A) and the roots (B) for the studied species: Artemisia herba alba, Stipa tenacissima, Astragalus armatus, Noaea mucronata, Salsola vermiculata, and Retama sphercarpa.