Further investigation of risk elements content in the bones of wild rodents from a polluted area in Slovakia

Table 2 Comparison of risk elements content with data obtained by Martiniaková et al. [18, 19]

Species/study	Fe (mg kg⁻¹)	Cu (mg kg⁻¹)	Zn (mg kg⁻¹)	Ni (mg kg⁻¹)
Myodes glareolus—present study
x	197.26	62.63	241.73	26.94
sd	67.36	19.45	19.28	5.59
Myodes glareolus—study of Martiniaková et al. [18]
x	212.99	4.16	188.55	9.52
sd	52.27	2.1	21.61	2.8
T-test	NS	+	+	+
Apodemus flavicollis—present study
x	240.28	69.94	239.94	29.58
sd	75.14	20.03	52.61	9.87
Apodemus flavicollis—study of Martiniaková et al. [19]
x	163.27	4.43	143.84	9.16
sd	73.91	1.19	16.52	1.89
T-test	+	+	+	+
Apodemus sylvaticus—present study
x	215.46	68.79	244.74	30.79
sd	44.78	13.58	46.58	20.21
Apodemus sylvaticus—study of Martiniaková et al. [19]
x	109.1	3.33	147.55	7.8
sd	35.61	1.06	13.35	0.84
T-test	+	+	+	+

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