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Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury in Aquatic Environments

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Cited by6 pages
Metals measured3
Evidence tierB
Year2023

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  • areas to alarming levels, reaching concentrations up to 27 µg/L in coastal waters (13).
  • Elemental Hg0 allows for long-range transport (1), but only 10 to 30% of the total
  • food webs, reaching up to 80–100% of the total Hg (THg) measured in fish muscle (1). The
  • in which it remains relatively stable and does not present significant risks (23,24). The
  • that 24% of anthropogenic mercury emissions are from coal combustion and thermal
  • makes up approximately 18% of the total atmospheric Hg pool (28).
  • have demonstrated that approximately 20–40% of the MeHg measured below the surface
  • thrive in environmental conditions where Hg methylation occurs with pH in the 5 to 10 range. Re-
  • dox potential from slightly negative (—0.4 mV) to zero, and dissolved oxygen of less than 0.2 mg/L.
  • Adapted from (37–40). conditions where Hg methylation occurs with pH in the 5 to 10 range. Redox
  • potential from slightly negative (−0.4 mV) to zero, and dissolved oxygen of less than 0.2 mg/L.
  • The data listed in Table 1 provide insights into the distribution of Hg and MeHg
  • Crimean saline lakes 129 ng/L - (54)
  • Florida Bay (discharging canals) 3–7.4 ng/L <0.03–52% of THg (55)
  • In Table 2 are listed recent studies of bioaccumulation of MeHg in marine or freshwater
  • From Table 2, we can conclude that the most studied species for MeHg uptake and
  • culture medium (where DW stands for the dry weight of microalgal biomass). Table 2
  • Table 2. MeHg in various experimental concentrations and its accumulation by some phytoplankton
  • Isochrysis galbana 1 µg/L 72 h 40.03 µg/gDW (77)
  • Nitzschia closterium 1 µg/L 72 h 32.74 µg/gDW (77)
  • zones are defined as zones with less than 80 µM (2.9 mg/L) of DO, which deteriorate as
  • 2023/915/EC, establishing maximum levels of Hg at 1 mg/kg for fish (88).
  • CO2 sequestration while generating half of the O2 , which is equivalent to 1% of the global
  • sources state that up to 56% of total accumulated cellular mercury can be stored in cellular
  • Hg, in plants, algae, or yeast with a general structure of (γ-Glu-Cys)n -Gly (n = 2–11) (99).
  • Chemical Sciences Roundtable; National Academy of Sciences: Washington, DC, USA, 2004.
    1. Shadrin, N.; Stetsiuk, A.; Anufriieva, E. Differences in Mercury Concentrations in Water and Hydrobionts of the Crimean Saline

Methods (brief)

    1. Santos, J.P.; Mehmeti, L.; Slaveykova, V.I. Simple Acid Digestion Procedure for the Determination of Total Mercury in Plankton by
  • Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Methods Protoc. 2022, 5, 29. (CrossRef)
  • in Baltic Sea sediments, collected in ammunition dumpsites. Mar. Environ. Res. 2020, 162, 105158. (CrossRef)
    1. Canário, J.; Santos-Echeandia, J.; Padeiro, A.; Amaro, E.; Strass, V.; Klaas, C.; Hoppema, M.; Ossebaar, S.; Koch, B.P.; Laglera, L.M.
  • thiols by reverse phase liquid chromatography hyphenated to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. J. Chromatogr. A
  • with low molecular mass thiols by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry and preconcentration. Anal. Bioanal. Chem.

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