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. 2024 May 10;24:162. doi: 10.1186/s12866-024-03295-4

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Sampling sites show precipitation in the year 2017. It was recorded that the east coast (approximately 75–100 percent) received more rainfall than the west coast (approximately 100–200 percent) of India. Samples collected from a) Andhra Pradesh’s coastal area were mostly sandy agricultural land, lagoons, and salterns; b) Goa’s coastal area was mostly hilly, and beaches possessed soil, rocks, and sand; and c) the tropical deciduous forest hilly area possessed black soil and Rocky Mountains (Adopted and modified from Source: National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/ and Google Earth (https://earth.google.com/))