Research Article

Migration and Transformation of Heavy Metals in the Soil of the Water-Level Fluctuation Zone in the Three Gorges Reservoir under Simulated Nitrogen Deposition

Table 1

Physicochemical properties of the original WFLZ soil in the TGR area.

Soil indexesContentBackground values of WFLZ in the TGRaPollution degreeb

pH8.16 ± 0.137.84n.d
OM (g/kg)13.92 ± 0.47n.dn.d
Bulk density (g/cm3)1.4 ± 0.14n.dn.d
NO3-N (mg/kg)2.13 ± 0.007n.dn.d
NH4+-N (mg/kg)179.49 ± 6.47n.dn.d
Al (%)3.98 ± 0.38n.dn.d
Fe (%)4.88 ± 0.49n.dn.d
Mn (mg/kg)1018.66 ± 149.05n.dn.d
Cd (mg/kg)2.63 ± 0.670.321High
Cr (mg/kg)76.82 ± 5.8955.5Clean
Cu (mg/kg)37.17 ± 5.1337Clean
Ni (mg/kg)48.46 ± 0.9529.5Clean
Pb (mg/kg)65.80 ± 7.6429.3Clean
Zn (mg/kg)166.82 ± 21.8972.7Clean

aBackground values of WFLZ in the TGR [13]. bEvaluation by single factor index method [12]. n.d. means no data.