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Comparing ecosystem gaseous elemental mercury fluxes over a deciduous and coniferous forest.


ABSTRACT: 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-2 (coniferous forest) and 25.1 ± 2.4 μg m-2 (deciduous forest) dominating mercury inputs (62 and 76% of total deposition). GEM uptake dominates in daytime during active vegetation periods and correlates with CO2 assimilation, attributable to plant stomatal uptake of mercury. Non-stomatal GEM deposition occurs in the coniferous canopy during nights and to the forest floor in the deciduous forest and accounts for 24 and 39% of GEM deposition, respectively. Our study shows that GEM deposition includes various pathways and is highly ecosystem-specific, which complicates global constraints of terrestrial GEM sinks.

SUBMITTER: Zhou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10175444 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Comparing ecosystem gaseous elemental mercury fluxes over a deciduous and coniferous forest.

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]

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