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SUBMITTER: Zhou J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10175444 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Jun J Bollen Silas W SW Roy Eric M EM Hollinger David Y DY Wang Ting T Lee John T JT Obrist Daniel D
Nature communications 20230511 1
Sources of neurotoxic mercury in forests are dominated by atmospheric gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) deposition, but a dearth of direct GEM exchange measurements causes major uncertainties about processes that determine GEM sinks. Here we present three years of forest-level GEM deposition measurements in a coniferous forest and a deciduous forest in northeastern USA, along with flux partitioning into canopy and forest floor contributions. Annual GEM deposition is 13.4 ± 0.80 μg m<sup>-2</sup> ( ...[more]