Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling

Climate-driven changes of global marine mercury cycles in 2100

(2023) Yujuan Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Utility of Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Passive Samplers for Predicting Mercury Methylation Potential and Bioaccumulation in Freshwater Wetlands

(2022) Natalia Neal-Walthall et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Evidence that Pacific tuna mercury levels are driven by marine methylmercury production and anthropogenic inputs

(2022) Anaïs Médieu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: Abiotic interactions

(2022) John Chételat et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Mercury concentrations in tuna blood and muscle mirror seawater methylmercury in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

(2022) Romina V. Barbosa et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

What are the likely changes in mercury concentration in the Arctic atmosphere and ocean under future emissions scenarios?

(2022) Amina T. Schartup et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Expression Levels of hgcAB Genes and Mercury Availability Jointly Explain Methylmercury Formation in Stratified Brackish Waters

(2022) Eric Capo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Updated trends for atmospheric mercury in the Arctic: 1995–2018

(2022) Katrina MacSween et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Temporal trends of mercury in Arctic biota: 10 more years of progress in Arctic monitoring

(2022) Adam D. Morris et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Mercury isotope evidence for Arctic summertime re-emission of mercury from the cryosphere

(2022) Beatriz Ferreira Araujo et al.   Nature Communications

Analysis of narwhal tusks reveals lifelong feeding ecology and mercury exposure

(2021) Rune Dietz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mercury methylation by metabolically versatile and cosmopolitan marine bacteria

(2021) Heyu Lin et al.   ISME Journal

Mercury biomagnification in a Southern Ocean food web

(2021) José Seco et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Permafrost Thaw Increases Methylmercury Formation in Subarctic Fennoscandia

(2021) Brittany Tarbier et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea

(2021) Christopher T. Hayes et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Microbial methylation potential of mercury sulfide particles dictated by surface structure

(2021) Li Tian et al.   Nature Geoscience

Biomagnification and trophic transfer of total mercury and methylmercury in a sub-tropical montane forest food web, southwest China

(2021) Chan Li et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Improved Mechanistic Model of the Atmospheric Redox Chemistry of Mercury

(2021) Viral Shah et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide

(2021) Maodian Liu et al.   Nature Geoscience

Bluefin tuna reveal global patterns of mercury pollution and bioavailability in the world's oceans

(2021) Chun-Mao Tseng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Previously unaccounted atmospheric mercury deposition in a midlatitude deciduous forest

(2021) Daniel Obrist et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global health effects of future atmospheric mercury emissions

(2021) Yanxu Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Possible pathways for mercury methylation in oxic marine waters

(2021) Kang Wang et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Bottom-Heavy Trophic Pyramids Impair Methylmercury Biomagnification in the Marine Plankton Ecosystems

(2021) Peipei Wu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Global Mercury Assimilation by Vegetation

(2021) Jun Zhou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations

(2021) Paul J. Blanchfield et al.   NATURE

Mercury stable isotopes constrain atmospheric sources to the ocean

(2021) Martin Jiskra et al.   NATURE

Mercury Benefits of Climate Policy in China: Addressing the Paris Agreement and the Minamata Convention Simultaneously

(2020) Kathleen M. Mulvaney et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A Global Model for Methylmercury Formation and Uptake at the Base of Marine Food Webs

(2020) Yanxu Zhang et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Widespread microbial mercury methylation genes in the global ocean

(2020) Emilie Villar et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Mercury stable isotopes for monitoring the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

(2020) Sae Yun Kwon et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Food web controls on mercury fluxes and fate in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon

(2020) D. M. Walters et al.   Science Advances

Nitrospina-Like Bacteria Are Potential Mercury Methylators in the Mesopelagic Zone in the East China Sea

(2020) Yuya Tada et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Structure determination of the HgcAB complex using metagenome sequence data: insights into microbial mercury methylation

(2020) Connor J. Cooper et al.   Communications Biology

Mercury species export from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean

(2020) Mariia V. Petrova et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY

Potential impacts of mercury released from thawing permafrost

(2020) Kevin Schaefer et al.   Nature Communications

From forests to fish: Mercury in mountain lake food webs influenced by factors at multiple scales

(2020) Ariana M. Chiapella et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Patterns in forage fish mercury concentrations across Northeast US estuaries

(2020) Kate L. Buckman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Methylmercury formation in boreal wetlands in relation to chemical speciation of mercury(II) and concentration of low molecular mass thiols

(2020) Van Liem-Nguyen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Molecular evidence for novel mercury methylating microorganisms in sulfate-impacted lakes

(2019) Daniel S. Jones et al.   ISME Journal

Five hundred years of anthropogenic mercury: spatial and temporal release profiles

(2019) David G Streets et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Microbial Biosynthesis of Thiol Compounds: Implications for Speciation, Cellular Uptake, and Methylation of Hg(II)

(2019) Gbotemi A. Adediran et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

(2019) Ricardo Cavicchioli et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2019) Feiyue Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Long-Term Observation of Atmospheric Speciated Mercury during 2007–2018 at Cape Hedo, Okinawa, Japan

(2019) Kohji Marumoto et al.   Atmosphere

Climate and Vegetation As Primary Drivers for Global Mercury Storage in Surface Soil

(2019) Xun Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Insect Life Traits Are Key Factors in Mercury Accumulation and Transfer within the Terrestrial Food Web

(2019) Loïc Yung et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tracking legacy mercury in the Hackensack River estuary using mercury stable isotopes

(2019) John R. Reinfelder et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Distribution of mercury‐cycling genes in the Arctic and equatorial Pacific Oceans and their relationship to mercury speciation

(2019) Katlin L. Bowman et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Climate change and overfishing increase neurotoxicant in marine predators

(2019) Amina T. Schartup et al.   NATURE

Mercury Bioaccumulation in Lacustrine Fish Populations Along a Climatic Gradient in Northern Ontario, Canada

(2019) A. W. Sumner et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

An assessment of temporal trends in mercury concentrations in fish

(2019) Thomas M. Grieb et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Overlooked Role of Putative Non-Hg Methylators in Predicting Methylmercury Production in Paddy Soils

(2019) Yu-Rong Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Biotic formation of methylmercury: A bio–physico–chemical conundrum

(2019) Andrea G. Bravo et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Mercury source changes and food web shifts alter contamination signatures of predatory fish from Lake Michigan

(2019) Ryan F. Lepak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An updated review of atmospheric mercury

(2019) Seth N. Lyman et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Challenges and opportunities for managing aquatic mercury pollution in altered landscapes

(2018) Heileen Hsu-Kim et al.   AMBIO

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

(2018) Daniel Obrist et al.   AMBIO

Modulators of mercury risk to wildlife and humans in the context of rapid global change

(2018) Collin A. Eagles-Smith et al.   AMBIO

Mercury from wildfires: Global emission inventories and sensitivity to 2000–2050 global change

(2018) Aditya Kumar et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Evaluating EDGARv4.tox2 speciated mercury emissions ex-post scenarios and their impacts on modelled global and regional wet deposition patterns

(2018) Marilena Muntean et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Quantification of Mercury Bioavailability for Methylation Using Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Samplers

(2018) Udonna Ndu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mercury transformations in resuspended contaminated sediment controlled by redox conditions, chemical speciation and sources of organic matter

(2018) Wei Zhu et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury

(2018) Paul F. Schuster et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Mercury in Active-Layer Tundra Soils of Alaska: Concentrations, Pools, Origins, and Spatial Distribution

(2018) C. Olson et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

A vegetation control on seasonal variations in global atmospheric mercury concentrations

(2018) Martin Jiskra et al.   Nature Geoscience

Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters

(2018) Denise Breitburg et al.   SCIENCE

Climate and productivity affect total mercury concentration and bioaccumulation rate of fish along a spatial gradient of subarctic lakes

(2018) Salla A. Ahonen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Mercury transport and human exposure from global marine fisheries

(2018) Raphael A. Lavoie et al.   Scientific Reports

Deciphering the role of water column redoxclines on methylmercury cycling using speciation modeling and observations from the Baltic Sea

(2018) A. L. Soerensen et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation

(2018) D. Coumou et al.   Nature Communications

Projected amplification of food web bioaccumulation of MeHg and PCBs under climate change in the Northeastern Pacific

(2018) Juan José Alava et al.   Scientific Reports

Global And Regional Trends In Mercury Emissions And Concentrations, 2010–2015

(2018) David G. Streets et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Microbial Mercury Methylation in Aquatic Environments: A Critical Review of Published Field and Laboratory Studies

(2018) Olof Regnell et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Eurasian river spring flood observations support net Arctic Ocean mercury export to the atmosphere and Atlantic Ocean

(2018) Jeroen E. Sonke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling of the Passive Permeation of Mercury and Methylmercury Complexes Through a Bacterial Cytoplasmic Membrane

(2017) Jing Zhou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Total Mercury Released to the Environment by Human Activities

(2017) David G. Streets et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tundra uptake of atmospheric elemental mercury drives Arctic mercury pollution

(2017) Daniel Obrist et al.   NATURE

Atmospheric Mercury Temporal Trends in the Northeastern United States from 1992 to 2014: Are Measured Concentrations Responding to Decreasing Regional Emissions?

(2017) Hao Zhou et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Terrestrial discharges mediate trophic shifts and enhance methylmercury accumulation in estuarine biota

(2017) Sofi Jonsson et al.   Science Advances

Methylmercury uptake and degradation by methanotrophs

(2017) Xia Lu et al.   Science Advances

Impacts of changes in climate, land use and land cover on atmospheric mercury

(2016) H. Zhang et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

When are metal complexes bioavailable?

(2016) Chun-Mei Zhao et al.   Environmental Chemistry

Temporal trends of mercury in eggs of five sympatrically breeding seabird species in the Canadian Arctic

(2016) Birgit M. Braune et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Future Impacts of Hydroelectric Power Development on Methylmercury Exposures of Canadian Indigenous Communities

(2016) Ryan S. D. Calder et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Atmospheric Mercury Transfer to Peat Bogs Dominated by Gaseous Elemental Mercury Dry Deposition

(2016) Maxime Enrico et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Role of Settling Particles on Mercury Methylation in the Oxic Water Column of Freshwater Systems

(2016) Elena Gascón Díez et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mercury isotope compositions across North American forests

(2016) Wang Zheng et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

A mass budget for mercury and methylmercury in the Arctic Ocean

(2016) Anne L. Soerensen et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Observed decrease in atmospheric mercury explained by global decline in anthropogenic emissions

(2016) Yanxu Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial mercury methylation in Antarctic sea ice

(2016) Caitlin M. Gionfriddo et al.   Nature Microbiology

Influence of reservoir water level fluctuations on sediment methylmercury concentrations downstream of the historical Black Butte mercury mine, OR

(2015) C.S. Eckley et al.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY

Analysis and interpretation of 18 years of mercury observations since 1996 at Mace Head, Ireland

(2015) A. Weigelt et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

New Constraints on Terrestrial Surface–Atmosphere Fluxes of Gaseous Elemental Mercury Using a Global Database

(2015) Yannick Agnan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Decadal Declines of Mercury in Adult Bluefish (1972–2011) from the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the U.S.A.

(2015) Ford A Cross et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Observational and Modeling Constraints on Global Anthropogenic Enrichment of Mercury

(2015) Helen M. Amos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

(2015) Yanxu Zhang et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Total- and methyl-mercury concentrations and methylation rates across the freshwater to hypersaline continuum of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA

(2015) William P. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Dissolved Organic Matter Kinetically Controls Mercury Bioavailability to Bacteria

(2014) Sophie A. Chiasson-Gould et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Historical Mercury Releases from Commercial Products: Global Environmental Implications

(2014) Hannah M. Horowitz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Six centuries of changing oceanic mercury

(2014) Yanxu Zhang et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins

(2014) Christopher K. Pham et al.   PLoS One

Differentiated availability of geochemical mercury pools controls methylmercury levels in estuarine sediment and biota

(2014) Sofi Jonsson et al.   Nature Communications

Anaerobic oxidation of Hg(0) and methylmercury formation by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ND132

(2013) Matthew J. Colombo et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Future Arctic Ocean primary productivity from CMIP5 simulations: Uncertain outcome, but consistent mechanisms

(2013) Martin Vancoppenolle et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Legacy impacts of all-time anthropogenic emissions on the global mercury cycle

(2013) Helen M. Amos et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Mercury isotopes in a forested ecosystem: Implications for air-surface exchange dynamics and the global mercury cycle

(2013) Jason D. Demers et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Nitrate-based niche differentiation by distinct sulfate-reducing bacteria involved in the anaerobic oxidation of methane

(2013) A Green-Saxena et al.   ISME Journal

Oxidation and methylation of dissolved elemental mercury by anaerobic bacteria

(2013) Haiyan Hu et al.   Nature Geoscience

Global Change and Mercury

(2013) D. P. Krabbenhoft et al.   SCIENCE

The Genetic Basis for Bacterial Mercury Methylation

(2013) J. M. Parks et al.   SCIENCE

Methylmercury production in sediment from agricultural and non-agricultural wetlands in the Yolo Bypass, California, USA

(2013) Mark Marvin-DiPasquale et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Mercury Methylation Rates for Geochemically Relevant HgII Species in Sediments

(2012) Sofi Jonsson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Dissolved Organic Matter Enhances Microbial Mercury Methylation Under Sulfidic Conditions

(2012) Andrew M. Graham et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Riverine source of Arctic Ocean mercury inferred from atmospheric observations

(2012) Jenny A. Fisher et al.   Nature Geoscience

Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ND132 as a Model for Understanding Bacterial Mercury Methylation

(2011) Cynthia C. Gilmour et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluation of the Cardiovascular Effects of Methylmercury Exposures: Current Evidence Supports Development of a Dose–Response Function for Regulatory Benefits Analysis

(2011) Henry A. Roman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Methylation of Mercury by Bacteria Exposed to Dissolved, Nanoparticulate, and Microparticulate Mercuric Sulfides

(2011) Tong Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Temporal trend of mercury in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard using teeth as a biomonitoring tissue

(2011) Aurore Aubail et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

The origin of methylmercury in open Mediterranean waters

(2011) Daniel Cossa et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Active transport, substrate specificity, and methylation of Hg(II) in anaerobic bacteria

(2011) J. K. Schaefer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury: A Review

(2009) Noelle E. Selin   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Evidence for Regulation of Monomethyl Mercury by Nitrate in a Seasonally Stratified, Eutrophic Lake

(2009) Svetoslava G. Todorova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mercury sources, distribution, and bioavailability in the North Pacific Ocean: Insights from data and models

(2009) Elsie M. Sunderland et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Resolving the effect of climate change on fish populations

(2009) A. D. Rijnsdorp et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Polar firn air reveals large-scale impact of anthropogenic mercury emissions during the 1970s

(2009) X. Fain et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Importance of elemental mercury in lake sediments

(2008) Ariane Bouffard et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Factors controlling temporal and spatial distribution of total mercury and methylmercury in hyporheic sediments of the Allequash Creek wetland, northern Wisconsin

(2008) Joel E. Creswell et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

OCEANS: Elements and Evolution

(2008) A. D. Anbar   SCIENCE