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| Title |
Mercury bioaccumulation in estuarine wetland fishes: Evaluating habitats and risk to coastal wildlife
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| Published in |
Environmental Pollution, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.06.015 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Collin A. Eagles-Smith, Joshua T. Ackerman |
| Abstract |
Estuaries are globally important areas for methylmercury bioaccumulation because of high methylmercury production rates and use by fish and wildlife. We measured total mercury (THg) concentrations in ten fish species from 32 wetland and open bay sites in San Francisco Bay Estuary (2005-2008). Fish THg concentrations (μg/g dry weight ± standard error) differed by up to 7.4× among estuary habitats. Concentrations were lowest in open bay (0.17 ± 0.02) and tidal wetlands (0.42 ± 0.02), and highest in managed seasonal saline wetlands (1.27 ± 0.05) and decommissioned high salinity salt ponds (1.14 ± 0.07). Mercury also differed among fishes, with Mississippi silversides (0.87 ± 0.03) having the highest and longjaw mudsuckers (0.37 ± 0.01) the lowest concentrations. Overall, 26% and 12% of fish exceeded toxicity benchmarks for fish (0.20 μg/g wet weight) and piscivorous bird (0.30 μg/g wet weight) health, respectively. Our results suggest that despite managed wetlands' limited abundance within estuaries, they may be disproportionately important habitats of Hg risk to coastal wildlife. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 77 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 16 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 18% |
| Researcher | 13 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 12 | 15% |
| Unknown | 11 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 24 | 30% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 28% |
| Chemistry | 5 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 4% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Unknown | 15 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 May 2021.
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#5,527,395
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#50,403
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#12
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