Spatial patterns and temporal trends of heavy metal concentrations in moss and surface soil specimens collected in Norway between 1990 and 2010

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Table 5 Spearman correlations between measured and geostatistically estimated HM concentrations both in moss and soil

	Number	Cd	Hg	Pb
Moss data and estimated soil data
Moss 1995 - soil 1995	458	0.78		0.88
Moss 2005 - soil 2005	464	0.74	0.39	0.81
Soil data and estimated moss data
Soil 1995 - moss 1995	464	0.65		0.86
Moss 2005 - soil 2005	464	0.65		0.86