Mercury is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant known to accumulate in, and negatively
affect, fish-eating and oceanic bird species, and recently demonstrated to impact some …

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 …

Methylmercury (MeHg) is a contaminant of global concern that bioaccumulates and
bioamagnifies in marine food webs. Lower trophic level fauna are important conduits of …

Environmental mercury (Hg) contamination of the global tropics outpaces our understanding
of its consequences for biodiversity. Knowledge gaps of pollution exposure could obscure …

Despite evidence of persistent methylmercury (MeHg) contamination in the South River
(Virginia, USA) ecosystem, there is little information concerning MeHg-associated …

Every year, thousands of seabirds are cast ashore and are found dead along the coasts of
North America and Western Europe. These massive mortality events called 'winter wrecks' …

This special issue examines bioaccumulation and risks of methylmercury in food webs, fish
and wildlife in the Laurentian Great Lakes region of North America, and explores mercury …

The current understanding of methylmercury (MeHg) toxicity to avian species has improved
considerably in recent years and indicates that exposure to environmentally relevant …

Birds are used as bioindicators of environmental mercury (Hg) contamination, and toxicity
reference values are needed for injury assessments. We conducted a comprehensive …

In the Amazon rainforest, methylmercury (MeHg) is easily biomagnified and bio-
accumulated in the aquatic food chain. This unique biome has been studied for occupational …