ArticleNature communications2026
Climate and plant traits drive a cross-continental imbalance in atmospheric Hg uptake.
Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Climate and plant traits drive a cross-continental imbalance in atmospheric Hg uptake.Nature communications · 2026Article
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Abstract
Tropical rainforests, particularly the Amazon, function as the Earth's lungs yet absorb mercury (Hg) emitted worldwide. By introducing climate-driven variations in foliar functional traits into a global model of forest Hg uptake, we uncovered an inter-continental spatial decoupling between Hg sources and sinks. Unexpectedly, the minimally industrialized rainforests of South America and Africa exhibit the world's highest atmospheric Hg accumulation rates and greatest biomass, thus disproportionately sequestering Hg released from industrialized regions. This imbalance arises from climate-specific leaf traits that enhance Hg fixation towards lower latitudes. The model constrains global forest Hg uptake to 1155 ± 422 Mg yr
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