Wild piscivorous fish, mammals, and birds may be at risk for elevated dietary methylmercury
intake and toxicity. In controlled feeding studies, the consumption of diets that contained Hg …

Anthropogenic inputs of mercury (Hg) into the environment have significantly increased in
the past century. Concurrently, the availability of methylmercury (MeHg) in aquatic systems …

Difficult to measure accurately and deal with effectively, organic pollutants continue to be a
major hazard in the environment. Significantly expanded, the second edition of Organic …

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 …

Recent evidence suggests that mercury exposure has negative effects on the health of
songbirds, and species that forage in wetlands may be at a greater risk of bioaccumulation …

Report on how mercury (Hg) was examined in top-predator fish, bed sediment, and water
from streams that spanned regional and national gradients of Hg source strength and other …

Bird eggs are commonly used in mercury monitoring programs to assess methylmercury
contamination and toxicity to birds. However, only 6% of> 200 studies investigating mercury …

We studied the biomagnification of total mercury and methylmercury in a subtropical
freshwater lake, Caddo Lake, Texas and Louisiana, USA. The present study is unique in that …

Rusty blackbirds are undergoing rapid population decline and have elevated Hg
concentrations while breeding in the Acadian ecoregion of North America. Factors …

Much of the research on mercury (Hg) in wild vertebrates has focused on piscivores and
other animals at high trophic levels. However, recent studies indicated that insectivorous …