Mercury flow through an Asian rice-based food web

• Published in: Environmental pollution (1987) Vol. 229; pp. 219 - 228
• Main Authors: Abeysinghe, Kasun S., Qiu, Guangle, Goodale, Eben, Anderson, Christopher W.N., Bishop, Kevin, Evers, David C., Goodale, Morgan W., Hintelmann, Holger, Liu, Shengjie, Mammides, Christos, Quan, Rui-Chang, Wang, Jin, Wu, Pianpian, Xu, Xiao-Hang, Yang, Xiao-Dong, Feng, Xinbin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Agricultural ecosystems; Agriculture; Animals; Araneae; Asia; bioaccumulation; biodiversity; Biomonitoring; China; Contamination; Ecosystem; ecosystems; Ecotoxicology; emissions; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Sciences; feathers; fish consumption; Fishes; Food Chain; Food webs; granivores; Heavy metals; Humans; invertebrates; mercury; Mercury - analysis; Methylmercury Compounds; Miljövetenskap; Mining; Oryza; piscivores; pollutants; reproduction; rice; Soil; Soil Pollutants - analysis; songbirds; stable isotopes; toxicity; trophic levels; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Wetlands; wildlife; China; Agricultural ecosystems; Biomonitoring; Food webs; Ecotoxicology; Contamination; Heavy metals

Mercury (Hg) is a globally-distributed pollutant, toxic to humans and animals. Emissions are particularly high in Asia, and the source of exposure for humans there may also be different from other regions, including rice as well as fish consumption, particularly in contaminated areas. Yet the threat...