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Forty-six trace elements in coastal Casuarina equisetifolia plant–soil systems at nine sampling sites on Hainan Island were analyzed using ICP-MS. The relationships among the trace elements of the same group or the same periodicity of the Periodic Table in the plants and soils were complex and no consistent patterns were found. More combinations of elements occurred with high positive correlation coefficients within the same periodicity than within the same group of the Periodic Table, and there were more high positive correlations in soils than in plants. However, there were many element combinations in Block d (transition elements) with high positive correlation coefficients in plants. Markedly high positive correlation coefficients between individual rare earth elements and Y and among Zr, Nb, Cd existed in both plants and soils. The dendrograms obtained by cluster analysis show that rare earth elements had very similar occurrence and distribution in both soils and plants. Thus, they behaved as a coherent group of elements both geochemically and biogeochemically. The transition elements were more coherent in plants than in soils.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40061003) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (Grant Nos 30002 and 49901).
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Liu, Q., Bi, H., Hung, L. et al. Relationships among multiple trace elements in coastal Casuarina equisetifolia ecosystems on Hainan Island, South China. Environ Geochem Health 28, 3–9 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-005-9005-1
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