Mercury biomagnification in an Antarctic food web of the Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Matias, Ricardo S., Guímaro, Hugo R., Bustamante, Paco, Seco, José, Chipev, Nesho, Fragão, Joana, Tavares, Sílvia, Ceia, Filipe R., Pereira, Maria E., Barbosa, Andrés, Xavier, José C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Giganteus; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; antarcticus; Elephant Seals; Euphausia superba; Giant Petrels; Macronectes giganteus; Mirounga leonina; Pygoscelis papua; Southern Elephant Seals; Stercorarius antarcticus
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532388/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119199

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...