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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 672, Issue -, Pages 604-617Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.401
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Methyl- and ethylmercury; Agro-environmental management; Soil additives; Redox processes; Wetlands
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Mercury and its species are toxic and therefore strategies to immobilize them or to impede the formation of bioaccumulative MeHg are a hot topic of ongoing research. Biochar (BC) and sugar beet factory lime (SBFL) are suggested to have the potential to meet these goals. However, their ability to restrain the mobilization of total Hg (Hg-t), methyl mercury (MeHg), and ethylmercury (EtHg) or the formation of MeHg and EtHg has not been examined to date. Moreover, the effect of systematically altered redox conditions on the release dynamics of Hg-t. MeHg, and EtHg in a contaminated floodplain soil as affected by these soil amendments has not been studied. Therefore, we investigated the impact of pre-defined redox conditions on the release dynamics of Hg-t, MeHg, and EtHg in a contaminated floodplain soil (CS) and the soil amended with either BC (CS+BC) or SOIL (CS+SBFL). The mobilization of Hgt, MeHg, and EtHg was generally higher at low redox potential (E-H) and decreased with increasing E-H, irrespective of soil treatment. Both BC and SOIL diminished the release of Hg-t from soil but not the methylation and methylation of Hg. In CS+SBFL approximately half of Hg, was found in solution compared to CS. However, higher methylation efficiency (MeHg/Hg-t ratio) was found in CS+SBFL counterbalancing this benefit. Abundances of specific phospholipid fatty acids suggest the presence of sulfate-reducing bacteria, which are considered as primary Hg methylators. The results indicate that both BC and SBFL have the potential to curtail the release of Fig, from inundated soils, while SBFL was more efficient. However, these amendments had no marked effect on the meHg and EtHg concentrations.Therefore, further research should be conducted to identify soil additives that are capable to reduce the release and formation of these Hg species. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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