Mercury speciation, transformation, and transportation in soils, atmospheric flux, and implications for risk management: A critical review

D O'Connor, D Hou, YS Ok, J Mulder, L Duan… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is a potentially harmful trace element in the environment and one of the World
Health Organization's foremost chemicals of concern. The threat posed by Hg contaminated …

Alternate wetting and drying: A water-saving and ecofriendly rice production system

M Ishfaq, M Farooq, U Zulfiqar, S Hussain… - Agricultural Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Global warming and declining water resources are threatening the sustainability of rice
production and global food security. Conventional continuously flooded system (CF) of rice …

Assessment of heavy metal pollution, spatial distribution and origin in agricultural soils along the Sinú River Basin, Colombia

J Marrugo-Negrete, J Pinedo-Hernández, S Díez - Environmental research, 2017 - Elsevier
The presence of metals in agricultural soils from anthropogenic activities such as mining and
agricultural use of metals and metal-containing compounds is a potential threat for human …

Globally distributed mining-impacted environments are underexplored hotspots of multidrug resistance genes

X Yi, JL Liang, JQ Su, P Jia, J Lu, J Zheng… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Mining is among the human activities with widest environmental impacts, and mining-
impacted environments are characterized by high levels of metals that can co-select for …

[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 develo** rapidly in others. We …

Mercury and sulfur redox cycling affect methylmercury levels in rice paddy soils across a contamination gradient

J Liu, J Chen, AJ Poulain, Q Pu, Z Hao… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Methylmercury (MeHg) contamination in rice via paddy soils is an emerging global
environmental issue. An understanding of mercury (Hg) transformation processes in paddy …

The divergent effects of nitrate and ammonium application on mercury methylation, demethylation, and reduction in flooded paddy slurries

J Chen, G Hu, J Liu, AJ Poulain, Q Pu, R Huang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The production of methylmercury (MeHg) in flooded paddy fields determines its
accumulation in rice grains; this, in turn, results in MeHg exposure risks for not only rice …

Mercury drives microbial community assembly and ecosystem multifunctionality across a Hg contamination gradient in rice paddies

Q Pu, K Zhang, AJ Poulain, J Liu, R Zhang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil microbial communities are critical for maintaining terrestrial ecosystems and
fundamental ecological processes. Mercury (Hg) is a heavy metal that is toxic to …

Mercury in rice paddy fields and how does some agricultural activities affect the translocation and transformation of mercury-A critical review

Z Tang, F Fan, S Deng, D Wang - Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 2020 - Elsevier
Human exposure to methylmercury (MeHg) through rice consumption is raising health
concerns. It has long been recognized that MeHg found in rice grain predominately …

Mercury methylation in rice paddy and accumulation in rice plant: a review

L Zhao, B Meng, X Feng - Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 2020 - Elsevier
The bioavailability and toxicity of mercury (Hg) are dependent on its chemical speciation, in
which methylmercury (MeHg) is the most toxic compound. Inorganic Hg can be transformed …