The Risk Assessment of Sediment Heavy Metal Pollution in the East Dongting Lake Wetland

Table 3

Pearson’s correlation analysis between sediment properties and heavy metal contents ().

	Moisture	Bulk density	pH	SOC	TN	TP	Cd	Cr	Ni	Pb
Moisture	1
Bulk density	−.752	1
pH	−.062	.226	1
SOC	.528	−.248	−.096	1
TN	.544	−.294	−.271	.945	1
TP	.055	−.026	.161	−.104	−.169	1
Cd	.001	−.259	−.354	−.181	−.127	−.033	1
Cr	.178	−.185	−.143	.249	.285	.024	.100	1
Ni	.358	−.196	−.140	.347	.408	−.095	.026	.749	1
Pb	−.014	−.195	−.459	−.164	−.076	−.103	.593	.095	.140	1

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