Mercury biomagnification in an Antarctic food web of Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Matias, Ricardo, Guímaro, Hugo, Bustamante, Paco, Seco, José, Chipev, Nesho, Fragão, Joana, Tavares, Sílvia, Ceia, Filipe, Pereira, Maria, Barbosa, Andrés, Xavier, José
• Other Authors: Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE UC), Universidade de Coimbra Coimbra, LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies Aveiro (CESAM), Universidade de Aveiro, School of Biology University of St Andrews, University of St Andrews Scotland, Central Laboratory of General Ecology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Centre for Functional ecology, University of Coimbra Portugal (UC), Departamento de Ecologia Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Madrid (MNCN), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas = Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas = Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: Trophodynamics; Trace metals; Stable Isotopes; Livingston Island; Trophic Magnification; [SDV.TOX.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Toxicology/Ecotoxicology; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Giganteus; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; antarcticus; Elephant Seals; Euphausia superba; Giant Petrels; Macronectes giganteus; Mirounga leonina; Pygoscelis papua; Southern Elephant Seals; Stercorarius antarcticus
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03768790; https://hal.science/hal-03768790/document; https://hal.science/hal-03768790/file/Matias%20et%20al.%202022%20ENPO.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119199

International audience Under the climate change context, warming Southern Ocean waters may allow mercury (Hg) to become more bioavailable to the Antarctic marine food web (i.e., ice-stored Hg release and higher methylation rates by microorganisms), whose biomagnification processes are poorly documen...