Table 2.

Characteristic parameters of the generalized peak-fitting functions of insoluble dead cell walls (CW), spore mixtures (Sp) and cultivated fungal microbiomes (biofilms, Mb) describing highly efficient metal elimination by a combination of EH8, EH10 and EH11.

Metal	CW			Sp			Mb
	Parameter	p≤	r2	Parameters	p≤	r2	Parameters	p≤	r2
Al	a = 1008.4159 b = −3.2817 c = 0.5618	0.0001 0.6744 0.0001	0.99	a = 1011.2979 b = −5.2787 c = 0.5561	0.0001 0.5797 0.0001	0.98*	a = 1011.5696 b = −5.5922 c = 0.5520	0.0001 0.5430 0.0001	0.98*
Cd	a = 991.8978 b = −15.4006 c = 0.2119	0.0001 0.0045 0.0001	0.98*	a = 994.2403 b = −7.9289 c = 0.2689	0.0001 0.0769 0.0001	0.99	a = 997.5382 b = 581.3458 c = 1.1636	0.0001 0.0004 0.0002	0.97
Co	a = 947.0998 b = 1.0934 c = 0.1012	0.0001 0.8530 0.0009	0.96*	a = 968.7509 b = 5.3617 c = 0.1183	0.0001 0.3410 0.0001	0.97	a = 944.6699 b = 0.1006 c = 0.0920	0.0001 0.9848 0.0007	0.96
Cu	a = 947.9398 b = -1.6486 c = 0.1453	0.0001 0.7235 0.0001	0.98	a = 938.9100 b = −0.0537 c = 0.1229	0.0001 0.9910 0.0001	0.99	a = 945.6613 b = −3.9292 c = 0.1349	0.0001 0.3609 0.0001	0.99*
Cr	a = 1007.0131 b = −12.5902 c = 0.4115	0.0001 0.0040 0.0001	0.99	a = 1006.7962 b = −15.4942 c = 0.3879	0.0001 0.0001 0.0001	1.00*	a = 1008.5005 b = −12.7635 c = 0.4033	0.0001 0.0093 0.0001	0.99*
Ni	a = 945.3009 b = 2.8120 c = 0.0958	0.0001 0.4924 0.0001	0.98	a = 947.2866 b = 0.7131 c = 0.1030	0.0001 0.8747 0.0001	0.98*	a = 951.5460 b = 2.0655 c = 0.1068	0.0001 0.6501 0.0001	0.98
Pb	a = 959.8348 b = 9.0128 c = 0.2611	0.0001 0.5030 0.0029	0.93*	a = 959.4407 b = 10.7195 c = 0.2548	0.0001 0.4267 0.0026	0.93	a = 959.8426 b = 10.8841 c = 0.2584	0.0001 0.4163 0.0023	0.93*
Zn	a = 1001.0351 b = 301.2079 c = 1.1359	0.0001 0.0001 0.0001	0.99	a = 1001.7014 b = 336.9611 c = 1.2772	0.0001 0.0026 0.0008	0.97	a = 1000.6658 b = 246.0606 c = 0.9843	0.0001 0.0001 0.0001	0.99*
Ag	a = 906.8907 b = −9.8880 c = 0.0487	0.0001 0.0053 0.0035	0.96	a = 913.6193 b = −5.8345 c = 0.0575	0.0001 0.1504 0.0029	0.96*	a = 907.2963 b = −7.9693 c = 0.0534	0.0001 0.0344 0.0033	0.96
Au	a = 906.4437 b = 9.8921 c = 0.0590	0.0001 0.2331 0.0104	0.94*	a = 924.8630 b = 23.8750 c = 0.0821	0.0001 0.0516 0.0052	0.94	a = 913.7804 b = 18.5878 c = 0.0756	0.0001 0.1083 0.0102	0.93
U	a = 1005.4774 b = 20.8824 c = 0.4439	0.0001 0.0033 0.0001	0.99*	a = 1006.6880 b = 34.1183 c = 0.4597	0.0001 0.0007 0.0001	0.99	a = 1004.7509 b = 19.2967 c = 0.3862	0.0001 0.1022 0.0001	0.97
Ti	a = 922.5146 b = 4.1861 c = 0.0788	0.0001 0.4496 0.0008	0.97*	a = 936.1490 b = 14.6439 c = 0.0994	0.0001 0.0531 0.0003	0.97	a = 942.3917 b = 15.7809 c = 0.1026	0.0001 0.0329 0.0002	0.97

Each row in the table represents an experimental subgroup, whereby a single ionic metal per subgroup was applied. The three parameters (a, b, c), the significance levels (p-values) by Student’s t-tests and the correlation coefficients (r²-values) are given for each ionic metal applied in a mixture (1,000 µg/l per metal) after fitting the residual concentrations (y) of each metal ion in water by the generalized function y = (a + b*x)/(1 + c*x) depending on incubation duration (x, 0–48 h). Standard deviations of measurements at each data point were less than 5%. The asterisk mark (*) indicates the highest elimination of the respective metal ion from the aqueous phase.