Mercury in the anthropocene ocean
Mercury in the anthropocene ocean
dc.contributor.author | Lamborg, Carl H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bowman, Katlin | |
dc.contributor.author | Hammerschmidt, Chad R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gilmour, Cindy | |
dc.contributor.author | Munson, Kathleen M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Selin, Noelle | |
dc.contributor.author | Tseng, Chun-Mao | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-24T15:03:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-04-24T15:03:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-03 | |
dc.description | Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2014. This article is posted here by permission of The Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 27, no. 1 (2014): 76–87, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2014.11. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The toxic metal mercury is present only at trace levels in the ocean, but it accumulates in fish at concentrations high enough to pose a threat to human and environmental health. Human activity has dramatically altered the global mercury cycle, resulting in loadings to the ocean that have increased by at least a factor of three from pre-anthropogenic levels. Loadings are likely to continue to increase as a result of higher atmospheric emissions and other factors related to global environmental change. The impact that these loadings will have on the production of methylated mercury (the form that accumulates in fish) is unclear. In this article, we summarize the biogeochemistry of mercury in the ocean and use this information to examine past impacts that human activity has had on the cycling of this toxic metal. We also highlight ways in which the mercury cycle may continue to be affected and its potential impact on mercury in fish. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The US GEOTRACES research reported herein was supported by the US National Science Foundation Chemical Oceanography program. National Taiwan University also supported this work through the Drunken Moon Lake Scientific Integrated Scientific Research Platform grant, NTU#102R3252. | en_US |
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dc.identifier.citation | Oceanography 27, no. 1 (2014): 76–87 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5670/oceanog.2014.11 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6588 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | The Oceanography Society | en_US |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.11 | |
dc.title | Mercury in the anthropocene ocean | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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