Spatiotemporal changes of eutrophication and heavy metal pollution in the inflow river system of Baiyangdian after the establishment of Xiongan New Area.

PeerJ · 2022 · PMC9074874 · PMID 35529490

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At present, heavy metal pollution displayed an increasing trend in many lakes and reservoirs in China ( Huang et al., 2019 ), and a large number of heavy metals were still released from historical polluted sediments, causing a high risk of contamination to the aquatic ecosystem ( Ke et al., 2017 ; Vu et al., 2017 ; Zhang et al., 2018 ).

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