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- Title
Ecological risk assessment of heavy metal chromium in a contaminated pastureland area in the Central Punjab, Pakistan: soils vs plants vs ruminants.
- Authors
Chen, Fu; Muhammad, Fatima Ghulam; Khan, Zafar Iqbal; Ahmad, Kafeel; Nadeem, Muhammad; Mahmood, Shahid; Awan, Muhammad Umar Farooq; Munir, Mudasra; Malik, Ifra Saleem; Ashfaq, Asma; Sultana, Razia; Maqsood, Ayesha; Saqlain, Laraib; Naeem, Majida; Ma, Jing
- Abstract
Grazing animals act as a bioindicator to study the heavy metal status in the pasture lands because excessive amount of toxic metals in the animal diet either disturb their normal activity or deposit the contaminants into their tissues. The aim of this study was to appraise the chromium status in soil and pasture crops with respect to the nutritional requirement of grazing animals. Three different sites were selected to collect soil, forages, and animal samples from District Jhang. All the samples were processed through atomic absorption spectrophotometer to analyze the chromium concentration in them. Chromium concentration was varied as 0.703–4.20 mg/kg in soil, 0.45–2.85 mg/kg in forages, and 0.588–2.37 mg/kg in all collected animal samples. Both the soil and forage samples displayed the maximum chromium concentration in the Capparis decidua, whereas animal samples revealed maximum concentration in animal blood. Results of pollution load index (0.078 to 0.463 mg/kg) exhibited that all the sample values are less than unity while enrichment factor (1.57–8.25mg/kg) showed that significant level of chromium is enriched in these sites. The maximum value of daily intake (0.0007–0.0055mg/kg/day) and health risk index (0.0004–0.00370055mg/kg/day) was observed in the buffalo that feed on the Capparis decidua. Bio-concentration factor (0.398–2.09mg/kg) value was the maximum in the Medicago sativa. It is concluded that all the animal samples showed chromium concentration beyond their standards. Thus, proper measures should be taken to reduce the metal contamination in these areas that ultimately lessen the availability of toxic metals to grazing animals.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; PUNJAB; ECOLOGICAL risk assessment; HEAVY metals; GRASSLAND soils; CHROMIUM; ANIMAL feeding behavior; BIOINDICATORS; ALFALFA; PLANT-soil relationships
- Publication
Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 3, p4170
- ISSN
0944-1344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11356-021-15904-0