Mercury biota

How will mercury concentrations in air, land, water, and biota respond to changes in mercmy emissions This book proposes a framework for a carefully designed national-scale monitoring program, necessary but currently not in place in the United States, to help answer this question. 

The need for coordinated monitoring studies spanning several environmental compartments through time and space, and the need for cormnon sampling and analytical protocols this is particularly important when striving to establish links between mercury emissions and methylmercury levels in biota... 

Pollman CD, Porcella DB, Engstrom DR. (In preparation). Assessment of trends in mercury-related data sets and critical assessment of cause and effect for trends in mercury concentrations in Florida biota phase II. 

Kamman NC, Lorey PM, Driscoll CT, Estabrook R, Major A, Pientka B, Glassford E. 2003. Assessment of mercury in waters, sediments, and biota of New Hampshire and Vermont lakes, USA, sampled using a geographically randomized design. Environ Toxicol Chem 23 1172-1186. 

Bignert A, Riget F, Braune B, Outridge P, Wilson S. 2004. Recent temporal trend monitoring of mercury in Arctic biota — how powerful are the existing data sets J Environ Monitoring 6 351-355. 

Francesconi KA, Lenanton RCJ. 1992. Mercury contamination in a semi-enclosed marine embayment organic and inorganic mercury content of biota, and factors influencing mercury levels in fish. Mar Envhon Res 33 189-212. 

Slotton DG, Reuter JE, Goldman CR. 1995. Mercury uptake patterns of biota in a seasonally anoxic northern California Reservoir. Water, Air Soil Pollut 80 841-850. 

Important link in the pathway between mercury emissions and methyl-mercuiy in biota... 

The quantitative water air sediment interaction (Qwasi) model was developed in 1983 in order to perform a mathematical model which describes the behavior of the contaminants in the water. Since there are many situations in which chemical substances (such as PCBs, pesticides, mercury, etc.) are discharged into a river or a lake resulting in contamination of water, sediment and biota, it is interesting to implement a model to assess the fate of these substances in the aquatic compartment [34]. 

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