Mercury biomagnification in an Antarctic food web of the Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Matías, Ricardo S., Guímaro, Hugo R., Bustamante, Paco, Seco, José, Chipev, Nesho, Fragao, Joana, Tavares, Sílvia, Ceia, Filipe R., Pereira, María E., Barbosa, Andrés, Xavier, José C.
• Other Authors: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), European Commission
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Trophodynamics; Trace metals; Stable isotopes; Livingston Island; Trophic magnification factors; Southern Ocean; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Giganteus; 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: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/267214; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119199; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780

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 documented. Biomagnification o...