Urban Sediment Contamination with Heavy Metals in Southern China

With the rapid economic development for the last 4 decades, wetland sediments in most cities in China have been polluted at different levels by heavy metals (Zhu et al. in Beijing Env Monit Assess 185:6049–6062, 2013; Bai et al. in China Ecol Model 222:301–306, 2011)