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. 2017 Apr 14;24(16):14091–14103. doi: 10.1007/s11356-017-8944-2

Table 4.

Characteristics of bioaccumulaton (BAF) and translocation (TF) factors with characteristics of two correlations: amount of motor vehicles – concentration of REEs in soil and REEs concentration in soil to their content in plant, calculated based on all observations from all experimental areas (A1-A4)

Plant species Factor/
correlation
HREEs LREEs REEs
A1 A2 A3 A4 A1 A2 A3 A4 A1 A2 A3 A4
A. vulgaris BCF 1.90 1.01 0.87 0.63 2.12 1.19 0.94 0.68 1.00 0.55 0.45 0.33
TF 1.2 1.0 1.4 1.1 2.5 2.3 3.5 2.9 2.3 2.2 3.2 2.7
Plant - soil r = −0.245, p = 0.755 r = −0.408, p = 0.539 r = −0.415, p = 0.585
A. millefolium BCF 2.39 1.40 0.98 1.02 2.66 1.66 1.05 1.11 1.26 0.76 0.51 0.53
TF 1.6 1.8 0.5 0.8 4.1 4.5 1.0 1.3 3.7 4.1 1.0 1.2
Plant - soil r = 0.849, p = 0.151 r = −0.390, p = 0.610 r = −0.270, p = 0.730
T. inodorum BCF 2.32 1.72 1.15 1.21 2.49 2.03 1.24 1.32 1.19 0.93 0.60 0.63
TF 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.8 1.4 1.3 1.3 0.6 1.3 1.0 1.0
Plant - soil r = 0.275, p = 0.725 r = −0.612, p = 0.388 r = −0.525, p = 0.475
P. rhoeas BCF 3.40 2.40 1.17 0.47 3.79 2.83 1.25 0.52 1.79 1.30 0.60 0.25
TF 0.3 7.8 0.6 0.3 0.8 1.4 0.5 2.2 1.6 2.9 0.5 2.0
Plant - soil r = −0.889, p = 0.111 r = −0.056, p = 0.944 r = −0.348, p = 0.652
T. officinale BCF 2.06 1.07 1.63 1.26 2.30 1.26 1.75 1.38 1.09 0.58 0.84 0.66
TF 1.0 1.0 0.5 1.4 4.2 4.3 1.3 2.2 3.9 4.1 1.2 2.2
Plant - soil r = 0.898, p = 0.102 r = 0.753, p = 0.247 r = 0.774, p = 0.226
Motor vehicles amount - soil r = 0.992, p = 0.008 r = 0.996, p = 0.004 r = 0.995, p = 0.005