Vegetation uptake of mercury and impacts on global cycling

J Zhou, D Obrist, A Dastoor, M Jiskra… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant that emits in large quantities to the atmosphere (> 6,000–
8,000 Mg Hg per year) through anthropogenic activities, biomass burning, geogenic …

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

D Obrist, JL Kirk, L Zhang, EM Sunderland, M Jiskra… - Ambio, 2018 - Springer
We review recent progress in our understanding of the global cycling of mercury (Hg),
including best estimates of Hg concentrations and pool sizes in major environmental …

Tundra uptake of atmospheric elemental mercury drives Arctic mercury pollution

D Obrist, Y Agnan, M Jiskra, CL Olson, DP Colegrove… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Anthropogenic activities have led to large-scale mercury (Hg) pollution in the Arctic,,,,,. It has
been suggested that sea-salt-induced chemical cycling of Hg (through 'atmospheric mercury …

Mercury stable isotopes constrain atmospheric sources to the ocean

M Jiskra, LE Heimbürger-Boavida, MM Desgranges… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Human exposure to toxic mercury (Hg) is dominated by the consumption of seafood 1, 2.
Earth system models suggest that Hg in marine ecosystems is supplied by atmospheric wet …

A vegetation control on seasonal variations in global atmospheric mercury concentrations

M Jiskra, JE Sonke, D Obrist, J Bieser… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Anthropogenic mercury emissions are transported through the atmosphere as gaseous
elemental mercury (Hg (0)) before they are deposited to Earth's surface. Strong seasonality …

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

SY Kwon, JD Blum, R Yin, MTK Tsui, YH Yang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Minamata Convention on Mercury (MC) includes provisions for a global
monitoring program (GMP) and effectiveness evaluation (EE) to provide information on …

Atmospheric mercury transfer to peat bogs dominated by gaseous elemental mercury dry deposition

M Enrico, GL Roux, N Marusczak… - Environmental …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) is the dominant form of mercury in the atmosphere. Its
conversion into oxidized gaseous and particulate forms is thought to drive atmospheric …

An updated global mercury budget from a coupled atmosphere-land-ocean model: 40% more re-emissions buffer the effect of primary emission reductions

Y Zhang, P Zhang, Z Song, S Huang, T Yuan, P Wu… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
The effectiveness of reducing the environmental level of mercury (Hg) by controlling
anthropogenic emissions depends on the magnitude of re-emissions from the land and …

Potential impacts of mercury released from thawing permafrost

K Schaefer, Y Elshorbany, E Jafarov… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mercury (Hg) is a naturally occurring element that bonds with organic matter and, when
converted to methylmercury, is a potent neurotoxicant. Here we estimate potential future …

Isotopic signatures of mercury contamination in latest Permian oceans

SE Grasby, W Shen, R Yin, JD Gleason… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentary records from the northwest margin of Pangea and the Tethys show
anomalously high Hg levels at the latest Permian extinction boundary. Background δ202Hg …