BaselineDistribution, source, contamination, and ecological risk status of heavy metals in the Red Sea-Gulf of Aqaba coastal sediments, Saudi Arabia
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CRediT authorship contribution statement
Abdelbaset El-Sorogy:Data curation, Investigation, Formal analysis, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing.Mohamed Youssef:Data curation, Investigation, Formal analysis.Khaled Al-Kahtany:Data curation, Investigation, Formal analysis.Mohsen M. Saleh:Investigation, Formal analysis.
Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgments
This project was funded by the National Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation (MAARIFAH), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Award Number (14-ENV183-02). Also, the authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions and constructive comments.
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