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 …

Review on rewiring of microalgal strategies for the heavy metal remediation-a metal specific logistics and tactics

MK Aravind, NS Vignesh, S Gayathri, N Anjitha… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Phycoremediation of heavy metals are gaining much attention and becoming an emerging
practice for the metal removal in diverse environmental matrices. Still, the physicochemical …

Dissolved organic matter thiol concentrations determine methylmercury bioavailability across the terrestrial-marine aquatic continuum

E Seelen, V Liem-Nguyen, U Wünsch… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The most critical step for methylmercury (MeHg) bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs is
phytoplankton uptake of dissolved MeHg. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) has been known …

Climate-driven changes of global marine mercury cycles in 2100

Y Wang, P Wu, Y Zhang - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Human exposure to monomethylmercury (CH3Hg), a potent neurotoxin, is principally
through the consumption of seafood. The formation of CH3Hg and its bioaccumulation in …

A global model for methylmercury formation and uptake at the base of marine food webs

Y Zhang, AL Soerensen, AT Schartup… - Global …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Monomethylmercury (CH3Hg) is the only form of mercury (Hg) known to biomagnify in food
webs. Here we investigate factors driving methylated mercury [MeHg= CH3Hg+(CH3) 2Hg)] …

Bioaccumulation of methylmercury within the marine food web of the outer Bay of Fundy, Gulf of Maine

G Harding, J Dalziel, P Vass - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Mercury and methylmercury were measured in seawater and biota collected from the outer
Bay of Fundy to better document mercury bioaccumulation in a temperate marine food web …

Bioconcentration, bioaccumulation and biomagnification of mercury in plankton of the Mediterranean Sea

JA Tesán-Onrubia, LE Heimbürger-Boavida… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plankton plays a prominent role in the bioaccumulation of mercury (Hg). The MERITE-
HIPPOCAMPE campaign was carried out in spring 2019 along a north-south transect …

A model for methylmercury uptake and trophic transfer by marine plankton

AT Schartup, A Qureshi, C Dassuncao… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Methylmercury (MeHg) concentrations can increase by 100 000 times between seawater
and marine phytoplankton, but levels vary across sites. To better understand how ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of cyanobacteria and microalgae present in aerosols to human health and the environment–Review study

K Wiśniewska, AU Lewandowska… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Airborne microalgae and cyanobacteria are among the least studied organisms in
aerobiology. While those of them living in freshwater and seawater are well recognized …

The potential of mercury methylation and demethylation by 15 species of marine microalgae

Y Li, D Li, B Song, Y Li - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) and its compounds are a kind of worldwide concerned persistent toxic
pollutants. As the major primary producer in the ocean, microalgae are expected to play an …