Internal dynamics and metabolism of mercury in biota: A review of insights from mercury stable isotopes

ML Li, SY Kwon, BA Poulin, MTK Tsui… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Monitoring mercury (Hg) levels in biota is considered an important objective for the
effectiveness evaluation of the Minamata Convention. While many studies have …

How closely do mercury trends in fish and other aquatic wildlife track those in the atmosphere?–Implications for evaluating the effectiveness of the Minamata …

F Wang, PM Outridge, X Feng, B Meng… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Minamata Convention to reduce anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions
entered into force in 2017, and attention is now focused on how to best monitor its …

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 …

Enhanced susceptibility of methylmercury bioaccumulation into seston of the Laurentian Great Lakes

JM Ogorek, RF Lepak, JC Hoffman… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mercury concentrations in the Laurentian Great Lakes waters are among the lowest reported
in the literature, while game fish concentrations approach consumption advisory limits …

Bioaccumulation and spatiotemporal trends of polyhalogenated carbazoles in Great Lakes fish from 2004 to 2016

Y Wu, H Tan, C Zhou, BS Crimmins… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Polyhalogenated carbazoles (PHCZs) were recently discovered in Great Lakes sediment
and other aquatic systems. However, knowledge about their bioaccumulation and potential …

Geographic drivers of mercury entry into aquatic food webs revealed by mercury stable isotopes in dragonfly larvae

SE Janssen, CJ Kotalik, JJ Willacker… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Atmospheric mercury (Hg) emissions and subsequent transport and deposition are major
concerns within protected lands, including national parks, where Hg can bioaccumulate to …

[HTML][HTML] Connecting tributary mercury loads to nearshore and offshore sediments in Lake Superior

SE Janssen, MT Tate, ED Dantoin, CT Filstrup… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lake Superior has a vast and largely undeveloped watershed in comparison to the other
Great Lakes, which makes it challenging to study mercury (Hg) sources and cycling. To …

Impact of dissolved organic matter and environmental factors on methylmercury concentrations across aquatic ecosystems inferred from a global dataset

Z Wu, Z Li, B Shao, Y Zhang, W He, Y Lu, K Gusvitskii… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) input into ecosystems is estimated to have increased by twofold to fivefold
since the industrial revolution. In aquatic ecosystems, methylmercury (MeHg) receives the …

Mercury source changes and food web shifts alter contamination signatures of predatory fish from Lake Michigan

RF Lepak, JC Hoffman, SE Janssen… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
To understand the impact reduced mercury (Hg) loading and invasive species have had on
methylmercury bioaccumulation in predator fish of Lake Michigan, we reconstructed …

Bioaccumulation of perfluoroalkyl substances in a Lake Ontario food web

J Ren, A Point, SF Baygi, S Fernando, PK Hopke… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2022 - Elsevier
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of synthetic chemicals detected
throughout the environment. To better understand the distribution of PFAS in an aquatic …