[HTML][HTML] Vegetation uptake of mercury and impacts on global cycling

J Zhou, D Obrist, A Dastoor, M Jiskra… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant that emits in large quantities to the atmosphere (> 6,000–
8,000 Mg Hg per year) through anthropogenic activities, biomass burning, geogenic …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

A review of global environmental mercury processes in response to human and natural perturbations: Changes of emissions, climate, and land use

D Obrist, JL Kirk, L Zhang, EM Sunderland, M Jiskra… - Ambio, 2018 - Springer
We review recent progress in our understanding of the global cycling of mercury (Hg),
including best estimates of Hg concentrations and pool sizes in major environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: Abiotic interactions

J Chételat, MA McKinney, M Amyot, A Dastoor… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dramatic environmental shifts are occuring throughout the Arctic from climate change, with
consequences for the cycling of mercury (Hg). This review summarizes the latest science on …

An updated review of atmospheric mercury

SN Lyman, I Cheng, LE Gratz, P Weiss-Penzias… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The atmosphere is a key component of the biogeochemical cycle of mercury, acting as a
reservoir, transport mechanism, and facilitator of chemical reactions. The chemical and …

Current and future levels of mercury atmospheric pollution on a global scale

JM Pacyna, O Travnikov, F De Simone… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
An assessment of current and future emissions, air concentrations, and atmospheric
deposition of mercury worldwide is presented on the basis of results obtained during the …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic atmospheric mercury: Sources and changes

A Dastoor, SJ Wilson, O Travnikov, A Ryjkov… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global anthropogenic and legacy mercury (Hg) emissions are the main sources of Arctic Hg
contamination, primarily transported there via the atmosphere. This review summarizes the …

A mass budget for mercury and methylmercury in the Arctic Ocean

AL Soerensen, DJ Jacob, AT Schartup… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Elevated biological concentrations of methylmercury (MeHg), a bioaccumulative neurotoxin,
are observed throughout the Arctic Ocean, but major sources and degradation pathways in …

Improved mechanistic model of the atmospheric redox chemistry of mercury

V Shah, DJ Jacob, CP Thackray, X Wang… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present a new chemical mechanism for Hg0/HgI/HgII atmospheric cycling, including
recent laboratory and computational data, and implement it in the GEOS-Chem global …

Overview of mercury dry deposition, litterfall, and throughfall studies

LP Wright, L Zhang, FJ Marsik - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
The current knowledge concerning mercury dry deposition is reviewed, including dry-
deposition algorithms used in chemical transport models (CTMs) and at monitoring sites and …