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Published in final edited form as: Environ Pollut. 2013 Apr 10;178:211–219. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.03.005

Table 4.

The five samples with highest cadmium concentration out of the entire dataset (1733 samples). Three were from the Shallow Lakes group and two were from the Potholes group, n = number of replicates.

Wetland description	Cd concentration in sample, μmol g⁻¹	Average for the same wetland, μmol g⁻¹
Shallow lake in Windom region, MN	0.013 (1.46 mg kg⁻¹)	0.006 (0.67 mg kg⁻¹), n = 5
Shallow lake in Red Lake region, MN	0.013 (1.46 mg kg⁻¹)	0.006 (0.67 mg kg⁻¹), n = 5
Shallow lake in Red Lake region, MN	0.013 (1.46 mg kg⁻¹)	0.005 (0.56 mg kg⁻¹), n = 8
Pothole in central ND	0.012 (1.35 mg kg⁻¹)	0.005 (0.56 mg kg⁻¹), n = 5
Pothole in northeast ND below the Pembina escarpment	0.011(1.24 mg kg⁻¹)	0.005 (0.56 mg kg⁻¹), n = 5