Fish biomarkers from a different perspective: evidence of adaptive strategy of Abramis brama (L.) to chemical stress

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 3 Chronic toxic pressure in the River Danube at sampling sites of interest

SUM TUch calculated on JDS3 data from Liška et al. [21]	Protected area	Urban area
SUM TUch calculated on JDS3 data from Liška et al. [21]	Bogojevo	Novi Sad 1	Novi Sad 2
SUM TUch	0.54	1.36	0.82
No. of compounds > LOQ used for SUM TUch calculation	144	145	141
SUM TUch org	0.41	1.21	0.65
No. of organic compounds > LOQ used for SUM TUch org calculation	136	137	131

SUM TUch calculated on data from König et al. [22]	Urban area
SUM TUch calculated on data from König et al. [22]	Upstream Novi Sad	City of Novi Sad	Downstream Novi Sad
SUM TUch org	0.14	0.82	0.15
No. of organic compounds > LOQ	74	119	87
No. of organic compounds > LOQ used for SUM TUch org calculation	68	100	77

SUM TUch the overall chronic toxic pressure calculated as arithmetic sum of chronic TUs, SUM TUch org chronic toxic pressure from organic compounds, LOQ limit of quantitation