Effects of environmental methylmercury on the health of wild birds, mammals, and fish

AM Scheuhammer, MW Meyer… - AMBIO: a Journal of the …, 2007 - BioOne
Wild piscivorous fish, mammals, and birds may be at risk for elevated dietary methylmercury
intake and toxicity. In controlled feeding studies, the consumption of diets that contained Hg …

Climate change–contaminant interactions in marine food webs: Toward a conceptual framework

JJ Alava, WWL Cheung, PS Ross… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is reshaping the way in which contaminants move through the global
environment, in large part by changing the chemistry of the oceans and affecting the …

Mercury cycling in stream ecosystems. 3. Trophic dynamics and methylmercury bioaccumulation

LC Chasar, BC Scudder, AR Stewart… - … science & technology, 2009 - ACS Publications
Trophic dynamics (community composition and feeding relationships) have been identified
as important drivers of methylmercury (MeHg) bioaccumulation in lakes, reservoirs, and …

How closely do mercury trends in fish and other aquatic wildlife track those in the atmosphere?–Implications for evaluating the effectiveness of the Minamata …

F Wang, PM Outridge, X Feng, B Meng… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Minamata Convention to reduce anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions
entered into force in 2017, and attention is now focused on how to best monitor its …

Methylmercury in freshwater fish: recent advances in assessing toxicity of environmentally relevant exposures

MB Sandheinrich, JG Wiener - Environmental contaminants in …, 2011 - taylorfrancis.com
Sublethal and reproductive effects of methylmercury in freshwater fish have been observed
at environmentally relevant exposure levels in a number of recent field and laboratory …

Mercury in soils, lakes, and fish in Voyageurs National Park (Minnesota): importance of atmospheric deposition and ecosystem factors

JG Wiener, BC Knights, MB Sandheinrich… - … science & technology, 2006 - ACS Publications
Concentrations of methylmercury in game fish from many interior lakes in Voyageurs
National Park (MN, USA) substantially exceed criteria for the protection of human health. We …

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 …

Mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), selenium (Se), and arsenic (As) in liver, kidney, and feathers of gulls: a review

J Vizuete, M Pérez-López, MP Míguez-Santiyán… - … and Toxicology Volume …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), selenium (Se), and arsenic (As) are metals
or metalloids of high concern because of their effects on the environment and, specially …

Mercury biomagnification in an Antarctic food web of the Antarctic Peninsula

RS Matias, HR Guímaro, P Bustamante, J Seco… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Under the climate change context, warming Southern Ocean waters may allow mercury (Hg)
to become more bioavailable to the Antarctic marine food web (ie, ice-stored Hg release and …

Mercury speciation and biomagnification in the food web of Caddo Lake, Texas and Louisiana, USA, a subtropical freshwater ecosystem

MM Chumchal, TR Rainwater… - Environmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the biomagnification of total mercury and methylmercury in a subtropical
freshwater lake, Caddo Lake, Texas and Louisiana, USA. The present study is unique in that …