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| Cossa, Daniel; Garnier, Cedric; Buscail, Roselyne; Elbaz-poulichet, Francoise; Mikac, Nevenka; Patel-sorrentino, Nathalie; Tessier, Erwan; Rigaud, Sylvain; Lenoble, Veronique; Gobeil, Charles. |
| Methylation of mercury (Hg) is the crucial process that controls Hg biomagnification along the aquatic food chains. Aquatic sediments are of particular interest because they constitute an essential reservoir where inorganic divalent Hg (HgII) is methylated. Methylmercury (MeHg) concentrations in sediments mainly result from the balance between methylation and demethylation reactions, two opposite natural processes primarily mediated by aquatic microorganisms. Thus, Hg availability and the activity of methylating microbial communities control the MeHg abundance in sediments. Consistently, some studies have reported a significant positive correlation between MeHg and HgII or total Hg (HgT), taken as a proxy for HgII, in aquatic sediments using... |
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Palavras-chave: Mercury; Methylmercury; Aquatic sediment; Methylation; Demethylation. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00171/28220/26520.pdf |
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| Feyte, Stephane; Tessier, Andre; Gobeil, Charles; Cossa, Daniel. |
| Samples of authigenic material, sediment overlying water and oxic surface sediment (0-0.5-cm depth) from a perennially oxygenated lacustrine basin were analysed to investigate which solid phases are important for binding a suite of trace elements (Ag, As, Ca, Cd, Cu, Hg, In, methylmercury (MeHg), Mg, Mo, Pb, Sb and Zn). The authigenic material, which was collected with inert Teflon sheets deployed for several years across the sediment water interface, contained mainly poorly crystallized Fe oxyhydroxides and natural organic matter, presumably humic substances derived from the watershed. Manganese oxyhydroxides were not present in the collected authigenic material due to the slightly acidic condition (pH = 5.6) of the lake that prevents the formation and... |
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| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00007/11839/8607.pdf |
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| Feyte, Stephane; Gobeil, Charles; Tessier, André; Cossa, Daniel. |
| Triplicate porewater depth-profiles of pH and concentrations of total Hg (HgT), methylmercury (MeHg), Fe, Mn, sulfate, total sulfide, total zero-valent sulfur, organic C and major ions were determined at two sampling dates in a perennially oxygenated basin and a seasonally anoxic basin from Lake Tantaré, a Canadian Shield lake. The vertical distribution of HgT, MeHg, acid volatile sulfide, total S, Fe, Mn, Al and organic C were also determined in dated sediment cores from the same lake basins and from the deepest site of two other lakes, one also located in the Canadian Shield and the other in the Northeastern part of the Appalachian Mountains. Application of a one-dimensional transport-reaction equation to the dissolved HgT and MeHg profiles constrains... |
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| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00070/18085/15628.pdf |
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