Facts and findings about mercury in the environment: infographic

Sources

• Stefan Osterwalder, Kevin Bishop, Christine Alewell, Johannes Fritsche, Hjalmar Laudon, Staffan Åkerblom & Mats B. Nilsson. (2017). Mercury evasion from a boreal peatland shortens the timeline for recovery from legacy pollution. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-16141-7. Freely available.
• Staffan Åkerblom, Anders Bignert, Markus Meili, Lars Sonesten and Marcus Sundbom, AMBIO (2014) 43(Suppl 1): 91. Half a century of changing mercury levels in Swedish freshwater fish. doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0564-1. Freely available.
• SLU news item: The health threat from mercury in freshwater fish could be blowing away in the wind.

About pathways and exposure of mercury in the environment

• Driscoll, C.T., Mason, R.P., Chan, H.M., Jacob, D.J. and Pirrone, N. (2013) Mercury as a global pollutant: Sources, pathways, and effects. Environmental Science & Technology 47(10), 4967-4983.
• Selin, N.E. (2009) Global biogeochemical cycling of mercury: A review. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34, 43-63.

Current PhD thesis from SLU

• Wu, Pianpian (2017). Methylmercury in boreal freshwater food webs. Diss. (sammanfattning/summary) Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniv., Acta Universitatis agriculturae Sueciae, 1652-6880 ; 2017:75. Freely availble.