Research Article

The Interactions among the Heavy Metals in Soils and in Weeds and Their Antioxidant Capacity under the Mining Activities in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam

Table 3

The correlation coefficient of 5 environmental factors on the HMs in plant tissues, roots, shoots, and leaves was calculated by envfit function in vegan R-package.

All tissue n = 75Root n = 25Shoot n = 25Leave n = 25
r2r2r2r2

Cu0.400.650.550.59
Zn0.420.570.590.71
As0.180.0020.030.720.370.0080.340.009
Cd0.300.390.0070.440.0050.350.009
Pb0.100.0360.130.240.450.0030.120.244