Global mercury concentrations in biota: Their use as a basis for a global biomonitoring framework

DC Evers, JT Ackerman, S Åkerblom, D Bally, N Basu… - Ecotoxicology, 2024 - Springer
An important provision of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is to monitor and evaluate
the effectiveness of the adopted measures and its implementation. Here, we describe for the …

Mercury in Neotropical birds: a synthesis and prospectus on 13 years of exposure data

CJ Sayers, DC Evers, V Ruiz-Gutierrez, E Adams… - Ecotoxicology, 2023 - Springer
Environmental mercury (Hg) contamination of the global tropics outpaces our understanding
of its consequences for biodiversity. Knowledge gaps of pollution exposure could obscure …

Mercury in western North America: A synthesis of environmental contamination, fluxes, bioaccumulation, and risk to fish and wildlife

CA Eagles-Smith, JG Wiener, CS Eckley… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Western North America is a region defined by extreme gradients in geomorphology
and climate, which support a diverse array of ecological communities and natural resources …

Spatial and temporal patterns of mercury concentrations in freshwater fish across the Western United States and Canada

CA Eagles-Smith, JT Ackerman, JJ Willacker… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Methylmercury contamination of fish is a global threat to environmental health. Mercury (Hg)
monitoring programs are valuable for generating data that can be compiled for spatially …

Evaluating the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention on Mercury: Principles and recommendations for next steps

DC Evers, SE Keane, N Basu, D Buck - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Minamata Convention on Mercury is a multilateral environmental agreement
that obligates Parties to reduce or control sources of mercury pollution in order to protect …

A national-scale assessment of mercury bioaccumulation in United States national parks using dragonfly larvae as biosentinels through a citizen-science framework

CA Eagles-Smith, JJ Willacker, SJ Nelson… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We conducted a national-scale assessment of mercury (Hg) bioaccumulation in aquatic
ecosystems, using dragonfly larvae as biosentinels, by develo** a citizen-science network …

Mercury exposure and toxicological consequences in fish and fish‐eating wildlife from anthropogenic activity in Latin America

R Canham, AM González‐Prieto… - Integrated …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Despite the risk of significant adverse toxicological effects of Hg to humans and wildlife, Hg
use in anthropogenic activities, and artisanal small‐scale gold mining (ASGM) in particular …

Mercury cycling in the US Rocky Mountains: a review of past research and future priorities

HR Miller, CT Driscoll, ELS Hinckley - Biogeochemistry, 2024 - Springer
Mercury cycles at levels three-to five-fold higher today than the pre-Industrial era, resulting in
global contamination of ecosystems. In the western United States (US), mercury mobilization …

Evidence-based logic chains demonstrate multiple impacts of trace metals on ecosystem services

F Hayes, DJ Spurgeon, S Lofts, L Jones - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Trace metals can have far-reaching ecosystem impacts. In this study, we develop consistent
and evidence-based logic chains to demonstrate the wider effects of trace metal …

Determinants of mercury contamination in viperine snakes, Natrix maura, in Western Europe

J Lemaire, P Bustamante, A Olivier, O Lourdais… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The effects of Hg contamination are presumably widespread across the components of
aquatic ecosystems, but investigations have been mainly focused on freshwater fish …