Uncertainty Evaluation of Soil Heavy Metal(loid) Pollution and Health Risk in Hunan Province: A Geographic Detector with Monte Carlo Simulation
Baoyi Zhang, Yingcai Su, Syed Yasir Ali Shah, Lifang Wang, Jeongim Park · 2023
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Baoyi Zhang and co-authors map metal pollution in farm soils across Hunan Province, China, in a 2023 study that also grades its own doubt. Past work on soil metals and health risk rarely checks how much the answers wobble with sampling spots, model choices, and border lines between classes.
The team combined a pollution index, a health risk model, and a factor-hunting method, then re-ran the work many times with shuffled inputs to measure the wobble. Two cities stood out with high pollution and low doubt. Arsenic and chromium drove most of the health risk. Rock type played a strong role, often in nonlinear mixes with other factors. Some inputs, like temperature and river distance, carried high doubt of their own.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Baoyi Zhang, Yingcai Su, Syed Yasir Ali Shah, Lifang Wang, Jeongim Park |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |