Table 4.

Comparison of concentration ratios observed in this study to those published elsewhere

Element	Present study	Other studies	IAEA generic values
Earthworms
As	0.28	0.11–0.131; 0.39–1.712	0.35–4.64a
Cd	40.0	25.5–26.41; 1.61–19.52; 10.6–18.83; 0.604	2.29–123a
Cu	0.74	0.55–5.732; 1.01–1.353
Fe	0.07	0.804
Mn	0.34		0.006–0.12a
Mo	0.41	0.42–2.212
Ni	0.21		0.04–2.84a
Pb	0.21	22.0–65.03	0.01–16.4a
Se	6.77	23.5–2712; 1.09–1.495
U	0.32	0.08–0.316; 0.09–0.527; 0.22–0.428; 0.09–0.259
Zn	15.6	2.40–2.701; 2.90–19.32; 1.15–1.753; 0.774	11.2–41.2a
Ground beetles
Ba	0.04	0.002–0.00610
Ca	0.15	0.04–0.4810
Cd	1.51	0.2611; 20.812	0.84–160b
Co	0.03	0.003–0.01210	0.01–0.02b
Cu	0.63	0.8711; 2.13–5.4710
Fe	0.005	0.002–0.00710
Li	0.02	0.0006–0.00210
Mg	0.24	0.29–1.4110
Mn	0.21	0.02–0.0510
Na	29.1	0.12–0.2010
Ni	0.05	0.0111; 15.012	0.04–2.84b
Rb	0.15	0.05–0.3310
Sr	0.11	0.03–0.1210	0.24–7.60b
Ti	0.001	1.7011
U	0.001	0.0110; 0.00411	0.04–0.08b
Zn	2.81	1.17–3.6710	1.20–14.4b

¹Nannoni et al. (2011), ²Chen et al. (2014), ³Wang et al. (2018), ⁴Latifi et al. (2020), ⁵Yue et al. (2021), ⁶Oliver et al. (2008), ⁷Giovanetti et al. (2010), ⁸Lourenço et al. (2011), ⁹Mrdakovic Popic et al. (2012), ¹⁰Naccarato et al. (2020), ¹¹O'Quinn (2005), ¹²Bednarska et al. (2016)

^aGeneric values for annelids (IAEA 2014)

^bGeneric values for arthropods (IAEA 2014)