Heavy metal signatures in urban and peri-urban agricultural soils across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India

Vazhacharickal, Prem Jose and Gurav, Trupti and Chandrasekharam, Dornadula (2018) Heavy metal signatures in urban and peri-urban agricultural soils across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. ISSN 1385-1314 (In Press)

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The authors are grateful for the cooperation of the UPA gardeners in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and for funding of this study by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) through the International Centre of Development and Decent Work (ICDD) at University of Kassel, Germany. We thank Fiat Panis Foundation (Ulm, Germany) for providing a scholarship and research funding to the first author. For technical analysis and support thanks go to the Department of Earth Sciences, IITB and the staff at the Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility (SAIF, IITB) and the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA, IITB) in Mumbai, India. The lab assistance of Mrs. Eva Wiegard and Claudia Thieme at Kassel University is gratefully acknowledged. The authors are also thankful for the comments and support from Prof. Dr. Andreas Buerkert, Dr. Martina Predotova, Dr. Alexandra zum Felde, Dr. Christoph Steiner, and Dr. Salini Sasidharan.

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