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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2020

Mercury biogeochemical cycling: A synthesis of recent scientific advances.

Mae Sexauer Gustin, Michael S Bank, Kevin Bishop, Katlin Bowman, Brian Branfireun, John Chételat, Chris S Eckley, Chad R Hammerschmidt, Carl Lamborg, Seth Lyman and 4 more

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. A Review of Manganese-Oxidizing Bacteria (MnOB): Applications, Future Concerns, and Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  9. Evidence that Pacific tuna mercury levels are driven by marine methylmercury production and anthropogenic inputs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Mae Sexauer GustinDepartment of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89439, USA. Electronic address: mgustin@cabnr.unr.edu.
Michael S BankDepartment of Contaminants and Biohazards, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway; Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01255, USA.
Kevin BishopDepartment of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7050, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden.
Katlin BowmanMoss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA; University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences Department, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Brian BranfireunDepartment of Biology and Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Western University, London, Canada.
John ChételatEnvironment and Climate Change Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3, Canada.
Chris S EckleyU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region-10, 1200 6th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA.
Chad R HammerschmidtWright State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435, USA.
Carl LamborgUniversity of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences Department, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Seth LymanBingham Research Center, Utah State University, 320 N Aggie Blvd., Vernal, UT, USA.
Antonio Martínez-CortizasEcoPast (GI-1553), Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Jonas SommarState Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China.
Martin Tsz-Ki TsuiDepartment of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA.
Tong ZhangCollege of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China.

Funding

Intramural EPA EPA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to briefly discuss the major advances in scientific thinking regarding: a) processes governing the fate and transport of mercury in the environment; b) advances in measurement methods; and c) how these advances in knowledge fit in within the context of the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Details regarding the information summarized here can be found in the papers associated with this Virtual Special Issue of STOTEN.

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ArchivesFluxesMercury isotopesMethylmercuryMinamata ConventionWildlife

Identifiers

PMID32783819
PMCPMC7430064

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