Arctic mercury cycling

A Dastoor, H Angot, J Bieser, JH Christensen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in Arctic Hg levels,
which are now being impacted by regional warming, with uncertain ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Mercury in the terrestrial environment: a review

B Gworek, W Dmuchowski… - Environmental Sciences …, 2020 - Springer
Background Environmental contamination by mercury is and will continue to be a serious
risk for human health. Pollution of the terrestrial environment is particularly important as it is …

[HTML][HTML] Mercury deposition and redox transformation processes in peatland constrained by mercury stable isotopes

C Li, M Jiskra, MB Nilsson, S Osterwalder… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Peatland vegetation takes up mercury (Hg) from the atmosphere, typically contributing to net
production and export of neurotoxic methyl-Hg to downstream ecosystems. Chemical …

Mercury cycling and isotopic fractionation in global forests

X Wang, W Yuan, CJ Lin, X Feng - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Forest ecosystem accounts for 31% of global land areas and plays a key role in the global
biogeochemical cycling of mercury (Hg). In this critical review, datasets of Hg flux …

[HTML][HTML] A retrospection on mercury contamination, bioaccumulation, and toxicity in diverse environments: current insights and future prospects

V Kumar, M Umesh, MK Shanmugam, P Chakraborty… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Owing to various industrial applications of mercury (Hg), its release into the environment at
high concentration is becoming a great threat to living organisms on a global scale. Human …

Mercury cycling in freshwater systems-An updated conceptual model

BA Branfireun, C Cosio, AJ Poulain, G Riise… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The widely accepted conceptual model of mercury (Hg) cycling in freshwater lakes
(atmospheric deposition and runoff of inorganic Hg, methylation in bottom sediments and …

[HTML][HTML] Phytoremediation and microorganisms-assisted phytoremediation of mercury-contaminated soils: challenges and perspectives

ED Tiodar, CL Văcar, D Podar - International Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mercury (Hg) pollution is a global threat to human and environmental health because of its
toxicity, mobility and long-term persistence. Although costly engineering-based technologies …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular and molecular mechanisms mediating methylmercury neurotoxicity and neuroinflammation

JP Novo, B Martins, RS Raposo, FC Pereira… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Methylmercury (MeHg) toxicity is a major environmental concern. In the aquatic reservoir,
MeHg bioaccumulates along the food chain until it is consumed by riverine populations …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying soil accumulation of atmospheric mercury using fallout radionuclide chronometry

JD Landis, D Obrist, J Zhou, CE Renshaw… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Soils are a principal global reservoir of mercury (Hg), a neurotoxic pollutant that is
accumulating through anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere and subsequent …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of forest management on water quality

NW Shah, BR Baillie, K Bishop, S Ferraz… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water quality is generally high in watercourses draining forested areas. However, forest
management can lead to detrimental effects on water quality and the aquatic environment …