David C Evers, Joshua T Ackerman, Staffan Åkerblom, Dominique Bally, Nil Basu, Kevin Bishop, Nathalie Bodin, Hans Fredrik Veiteberg Braaten, Mark E H Burton, Paco Bustamante, Celia Chen, John Chételat, Linroy Christian, Rune Dietz, Paul Drevnick, Collin Eagles-Smith, Luis E Fernandez, Neil Hammerschlag, Mireille Harmelin-Vivien, Agustin Harte, Eva M Krümmel, José Lailson Brito, Gabriela Medina, Cesar Augusto Barrios Rodriguez, Iain Stenhouse, Elsie Sunderland, Akinori Takeuchi, Tim Tear, Claudia Vega, Simon Wilson, Pianpian Wu
An important provision of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the adopted measures and its implementation. Here, we describe for the first time currently available biotic mercury (Hg) data on a global scale to improve the understanding of global efforts to reduce the impact of Hg pollution on people and the environment. Data from the peer-reviewed literature were compiled in the Global Biotic Mercury Synthesis (GBMS) database (>550,000 data points). These data provide a foundation for establishing a biomonitoring framework needed to track Hg concentrations in biota globally...
April 29, 2024: Ecotoxicology