Mercury in the Swedish environment ? Recent research on causes, consequences and corrective methods

Lindqvist, Oliver; Johansson, Kajsa; Bringmark, L.; Timm, Birgitta; Aastrup, Mats; Andersson, Arne; Hovsenius, Gunnar; Håkanson, Lars; Iverfeldt, Åke; Meili, Markus

doi:10.1007/bf00542429

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“…Lindqvist et al [30] reported modern Hg £uxes of 2^35 Wg/m 2 /yr for di¡erent regions in the Nordic countries. Mason et al [2] estimated an average value of 16 Wg/ m 2 /yr for the Northern Hemisphere using data from several locations within North America, Asia and Europe.…”

Section: Accumulation Of Mercurymentioning

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Elevated mercury accumulation in a peat bog of the Magellanic Moorlands, Chile (53°S) – an anthropogenic signal from the Southern Hemisphere

Biester

Kilian

Franzen

et al. 2002

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Increasing mercury deposition rates in the Northern Hemisphere recorded in natural archives such as peat bogs or lake sediments have been documented in numerous studies. However, data on atmospheric Hg deposition in the Southern Hemisphere dating back to pre-industrial times are rare. Here, we provide a continuous record of atmospheric Hg deposition in the Southern Hemisphere recorded by an ombrotrophic peat bog of the Magellanic Moorlands, Chile (53 ‡S), extending back 3000 yr. Pre-industrial mercury accumulation rates range between 2.5 and 3.9 Wg/m 2 /yr. In the past 100 yr, Hg accumulation rates increased 18-fold from about 3 Wg/m 2 /yr to a maximum of 62.5 Wg/m 2 /yr. If Hg accumulation rates were normalized to peat accumulation rates, maximum rates were 7.9 Wg/m 2 / yr, which is only 2.5 times the pre-industrial rates. Thus, Hg accumulation rates normalized to peat accumulation rates are more comparable to the three-fold net increase in atmospheric Hg concentrations estimated for the same period. We suggest that the increase in Hg accumulation rates in the Magellanic Moorlands within the past 100 yr is at least partly attributed to global dispersion of Hg derived from anthropogenic sources in the Northern Hemisphere. The finding that no increase of atmospheric deposition of Pb could be observed in the bog indicates the extraordinary long-range transport and ubiquitous dispersion of anthropogenic derived gaseous Hg compared to other metals. ß

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Elevated mercury accumulation in a peat bog of the Magellanic Moorlands, Chile (53°S) – an anthropogenic signal from the Southern Hemisphere

Biester

Kilian

Franzen

et al. 2002

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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“…Lindqvist, 1991). However, estimates of global mercury emissions, which range between 5 -15 kt yr-1, are still very uncertain (e.g.…”

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Gaseous mercury emissions from a fire in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, during January 2000

Brunke

Labuschagne

Šlemr³

2001

Geophysical Research Letters

100

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“…Recent studies showed that a significantly larger proportion of the total pair days in the breeding season were occupied by unproductive male-male pairs in each of the dosed groups than in the control group in all years [11]. These results are of interest because effects on reproductive behavior and sexual preference mediated by endocrine disruption represent a novel and probably under-reported mechanism by which contaminants may influence wild populations of birds.…”

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Progress of Global Atmospheric Mercury Field Observations

Li¹,

Lee²

2014

JOCET

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Abstract-It reviewed global atmospheric mercury field observations progress. Progress of atmospheric mercury observations was divided into two parts. One is for atmospheric mercury observations in region outside China including the U.S., Canada, EU, Japan, UK, etc. Another is to introduce the atmospheric mercury observations in China. Despite much observations on atmospheric mercury been launched in China, problems still exists. The observations sites are mainly centralized in urban areas and the background observation is much insufficient. The time for observations is relatively short and there is few data on long-term continuous observations. The data of the observations on total gaseous mercury is much while the observation of speciated atmospheric mercury is in deficiency.Index Terms-Total gaseous mercury, gaseous elemental mercury, reactive gaseous mercury, particulate mercury.

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Mercury in the Swedish environment ? Recent research on causes, consequences and corrective methods

Cited by 760 publications

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Elevated mercury accumulation in a peat bog of the Magellanic Moorlands, Chile (53°S) – an anthropogenic signal from the Southern Hemisphere

Elevated mercury accumulation in a peat bog of the Magellanic Moorlands, Chile (53°S) – an anthropogenic signal from the Southern Hemisphere

Gaseous mercury emissions from a fire in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, during January 2000

Progress of Global Atmospheric Mercury Field Observations

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