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 …

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 …

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,. Earth
system models suggest that Hg in marine ecosystems is supplied by atmospheric wet and …

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 …

Mercury isotope compositions across North American forests

W Zheng, D Obrist, D Weis… - Global Biogeochemical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Forest biomass and soils represent some of the largest reservoirs of actively cycling mercury
(Hg) on Earth, but many uncertainties exist regarding the source and fate of Hg in forest …

Recent developments in mercury stable isotope analysis

JD Blum, MW Johnson - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Isotopes was compiled before it was appropriate to include a chapter on mercury (Hg) stable
isotope geochemistry. At that time there were only a few papers on this new topic (Jackson …

Review of stable mercury isotopes in ecology and biogeochemistry

MTK Tsui, JD Blum, SY Kwon - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the advent of cold vapor-multicollector-inductively coupled plasma mass
spectrometry (CV-MC-ICP-MS) in the past two decades, many research groups studying …

Mass-dependent and-independent fractionation of mercury isotope during gas-phase oxidation of elemental mercury vapor by atomic Cl and Br

G Sun, J Sommar, X Feng, CJ Lin, M Ge… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
This study presents the first measurement of Hg stable isotope fractionation during gas-
phase oxidation of Hg0 vapor by halogen atoms (Cl•, Br•) in the laboratory at 750±1 Torr and …

Isotopic composition of atmospheric mercury in China: new evidence for sources and transformation processes in air and in vegetation

B Yu, X Fu, R Yin, H Zhang, X Wang… - Environmental …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The isotopic composition of atmospheric total gaseous mercury (TGM) and particle-bound
mercury (PBM) and mercury (Hg) in litterfall samples have been determined at …