Challenges and opportunities for managing aquatic mercury pollution in altered landscapes

H Hsu-Kim, CS Eckley, D Achá, X Feng, CC Gilmour… - Ambio, 2018 - Springer
The environmental cycling of mercury (Hg) can be affected by natural and anthropogenic
perturbations. Of particular concern is how these disruptions increase mobilization of Hg …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in understanding and measurement of mercury in the environment: Terrestrial Hg cycling

K Bishop, JB Shanley, A Riscassi, HA de Wit… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This review documents recent advances in terrestrial mercury cycling. Terrestrial mercury
(Hg) research has matured in some areas, and is developing rapidly in others. We …

Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations

PJ Blanchfield, JWM Rudd, LE Hrenchuk, M Amyot… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic releases of mercury (Hg),–are a human health issue because the potent
toxicant methylmercury (MeHg), formed primarily by microbial methylation of inorganic Hg in …

[HTML][HTML] Decreasing mercury levels in consumer fish over the three decades of increasing mercury emissions in China

H Zhang, W Wang, C Lin, X Feng, J Shi, G Jiang… - Eco-Environment & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fish consumption is the primary dietary route of human exposure to methylmercury. It has
been well documented that elevated mercury concentration in fish in North America and …

Biogeochemical drivers of the fate of riverine mercury discharged to the global and Arctic oceans

Y Zhang, DJ Jacob, S Dutkiewicz… - Global …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rivers discharge 28±13 Mmol yr− 1 of mercury (Hg) to ocean margins, an amount
comparable to atmospheric deposition to the global oceans. Most of the Hg discharged by …

Source tracing of natural organic matter bound mercury in boreal forest runoff with mercury stable isotopes

M Jiskra, JG Wiederhold, U Skyllberg… - … Science: Processes & …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Terrestrial runoff represents a major source of mercury (Hg) to aquatic ecosystems. In boreal
forest catchments, such as the one in northern Sweden studied here, mercury bound to …

Recent advances in understanding and measurement of Hg in the environment: Surface-atmosphere exchange of gaseous elemental mercury (Hg0)

J Sommar, S Osterwalder, W Zhu - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The atmosphere is the major transport pathway for distribution of mercury (Hg) globally.
Gaseous elemental mercury (GEM, hereafter Hg 0) is the predominant form in both …

An improved dual-stage protocol to pre-concentrate mercury from airborne particles for precise isotopic measurement

Q Huang, YL Liu, JB Chen, XB Feng… - Journal of Analytical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The Hg isotopic signature may provide insight into tracking the sources and pathways of
both airborne particulate matter (PM) and particle-bound Hg (PHg) in the atmosphere …

New insights on ecosystem mercury cycling revealed by stable isotopes of mercury in water flowing from a headwater peatland catchment

GE Woerndle, M Tsz-Ki Tsui… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Stable isotope compositions of mercury (Hg) were measured in the outlet stream and in soil
cores at different landscape positions in a 9.7-ha boreal upland-peatland catchment. An …

Isotope exchange between mercuric [Hg (II)] chloride and Hg (II) bound to minerals and thiolate ligands: Implications for enriched isotope tracer studies

L Zhang, X Liang, Q Wang, Y Zhang, X Yin, X Lu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Enriched mercury (Hg) stable isotopes have been widely used as tracers in field and
laboratory investigations of Hg (II) biogeochemical transformations such as methylation and …