| 摘 要: |
Cadmium (Cd) poses major human health problems due to its high toxicity and organ bioaccumulation potential. This study collected and analysed 130 pairs of representative soil-highland barley samples on the Tibetan Plateau. The total soil Cd content (Cd-soil), available soil Cd (Cd-ava), and highland barley Cd contents (Cd-barley) ranged from 0.03 to 0.46 mg kg -1, 0.006-0.185 mg kg -1, and 0.57-13.62 mu g kg-1, with mean values of 0.19 +/- 0.01 mg kg -1, 0.045 +/- 0.003 mg kg-1, and 4.57 +/- 0.17 mu g kg-1, respectively. Redundancy analysis (RDA) demonstrated that geographic factors and soil properties explained 28.46% of the variation in Cd-soil and Cd-ava, and precipitation (14.6%) and pH (9.1%) were the dominant factors. The structural equation model (SEM) indicated that Cd-soil and Cd-ava were predominantly controlled by pH. Furthermore, the Cd-soil, Cd-ava, and Cd-barley with significantly different environmental conditions were more accurately predicted by condi-tional inference trees-multiple linear regression (CITs-MLR). When Cd-soil is more than 0.376 mg kg -1, Cd-ava obtains the most accurate predictor (R2 =0.64, P < 0.01). This study provides new scientific insight into un-derstanding the environmental biogeochemical nexus of Cd in the complex and fragile plateau environment and evaluating food security on the Tibetan Plateau under the self-sufficiency model of highland barley. |