Foliar exchange of mercury as a function of soil and air mercury concentrations

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 324, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 271-279

  Ericksen, J A ^a   Gustin, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi directional; Foliar exchange; Mercury concentrations

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; MERCURY (METAL); PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED; SOILS; VEGETATION;

FOLIAR EXCHANGE; GAS-EXCHANGE SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; FOLIAGE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); VASCULAR PLANT;

AIR; ARTICLE; ASPEN; ATMOSPHERE; DARKNESS; FOLIAGE; GAS EXCHANGE; LIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREE GROWTH; VAPOR;

AIR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; POPULUS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 1842786768     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2003.10.034     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Beauford W., Barber J., Barringer A.R. Uptake and distribution of mercury within higher plants. Physiol Plant. 39:1977;261-265.
2. Bishop K.H., Lee Y.-H., Munthe J., Dambrine E. Xylem sap as a pathway for total mercury and methylmercury transport from soils to tree canopy in the boreal forest. Biogeochemistry. 40:1998;101-113.
3. Bloom N.S., Fitzgerald W.F. Determination of volatile mercury species at the picogram level by low temperature gas chromatography with cold-vapor atomic fluorescence detection. Anal Chim Acta. 208:1988;151-161.
4. Browne C.L., Fang C.S. Uptake of mercury vapor by wheat. An assimilation model. Plant Phys. 61:1978;430-433.
5. Cocking D., Rohrer M., Thomas R., Walker J., Ward D. Effects of root morphology and Hg concentration in the soil on uptake by terrestrial vascular plants. Water Air Soil Pollut. 80:1995;1113-1116.
6. Dunmarey R., Dams R., Hoste J. Comparison of the collection and desorption efficiency of activated charcoal, silver, and gold for the determination of vapor-phase atmospheric mercury. Anal Chem. 57:1985;2638-2643.
7. Ericksen J.A., Gustin M.S., Schorran D.E., Johnson D.W., Lindberg S.E., Coleman J.S. Accumulation of atmospheric mercury in forest foliage. Atm Environ. 37:(12):2003;1613-1622.
8. Frescholtz TF, Gustin MS, Schorran DE, Fernandez GCJ (2003) Assessing the source of mercury in foliar tissue of quaking aspen. Environ Toxicol Chem 22, in press
9. Gnamus A., Byrne A.R., Horvat M. Mercury in the soil-plant-deer-predator food chain of a temperate forest in Slovenia. Environ Sci Technol. 34:2000;3337-3345.
10. Godbold D.L. Mercury in forest ecosystems: risk and research needs. Watras C.J., Huckabee J.W. Mercury pollution: integration and synthesis. 1994;295-303 Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI.
11. Godbold D.L., Hüttermann A. Inhibition of photosynthesis and transpiration in relation to mercury-induced root damage in spruce seedlings. Physiol Plantarum. 74:1988;270-275.
12. Gustin M.S., Coolbaugh M., Engle M., Fitzgerald B., Keislar R., Lindberg S., Nacht D., Quashnick J., Rytuba J., Sladek C., Zhang H., Zehner R. Atmospheric mercury emissions from mine wastes and surrounding geologically enriched terrains. Environ Geol. 43:2003;339-351.
13. Hanson P.J., Lindberg S.E., Tabberer T.A., Owens J.G., Kim K.-H. Foliar exchange of mercury vapor: evidence for a compensation point. Water Air Soil Pollut. 80:1995;373-382.
14. Hultberg H., Iverfeldt Å., Lee Y.-H. Methylmercury input/output and accumulation in forested catchments and critical loads for lakes in southwestern Sweden. Watras C.J., Huckabee J.W. Mercury pollution: integration and synthesis. 1994;313-322 Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI.
15. Iverfeldt Å. Mercury in forest canopy throughfall water and its relation to atmospheric deposition. Water Air Soil Pollut. 56:1991;553-564.
16. Leonard T.L., Taylor G.E. Jr, Gustin M.S., Fernandez G.C.J. Mercury and plants in contaminated soils: 1. Uptake, partitioning, and emission to the atmosphere. Environ Toxicol Chem. 17:1998a;2063-2071.
17. Leonard T.L., Taylor G.E. Jr, Gustin M.S., Fernandez G.C.J. Mercury and plants in contaminated soils: 2. Environmental and physiological factors governing mercury flux to the atmosphere. Environ Toxicol Chem. 17:1998b;2072-2079.
18. Lindberg S.E. Forests and the global biogeochemical cycle of mercury: the importance of understanding air/vegetation exchange processes. Baeyens W. Regional and Global Mercury Cycles. 1996;359-380 Kluwer Academic Publ, Dordrecht, Holland. NATO Advanced Science Institute Series, Novosibersk, Siberia.
19. Lindberg S.E., Meyers T.P. Development of an automated micrometeorological method for measuring the emission of mercury vapor from wetland vegetation. Wetlands Ecol Manage. 9:2001;333-347.
20. Lindberg S.E., Jackson D.R., Huckabee J.W., Janzen S.A., Levin M.J., Lund J.R. Atmospheric emission and plant uptake of mercury from agricultural soils near the Almaden Mercury Mine. J Environ Qual. 8:1979;572-578.
21. Lindberg S.E., Turner R.R., Meyers T.P., Taylor G.E. Jr, Schroeder W.H. Atmospheric concentrations and deposition of airborne Hg to Walker branch watershed. Water Air Soil Pollut. 56:1991;577-594.
22. Lindberg S.E., Meyers T.P., Taylor G.E. Jr, Turner R.R., Schroeder W.H. Atmosphere-surface exchange of mercury in a forest: results of modeling and gradient approaches. J Geophys Res. 97:(D2):1992;2519-2528.
23. Lindberg S.E., Hanson P.J., Meyers T.P., Kim K.-H. Air/surface exchange of mercury vapor over forests - the need for a reassessment of continental biogenic emissions. Atmos Environ. 32:(5):1998;895-908.
24. Munthe J., Hultberg H., Iverfeldt Å. Mechanisms of deposition of methyl mercury and mercury to coniferous forests. Water Air Soil Pollut. 80:1995;363-371.
25. Rea A.W., Lindberg S.E., Scherbatskoy T., Keeler G.J. Mercury accumulation in foliage over time in two northern mixed-hardwood forests. Water Air Soil Pollut. 133:2002;49-67.
26. Shaw B.P., Panigrahi A.K. Uptake and tissue distribution of mercury in some plant species collected from a contaminated area in India: its ecological implications. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol. 15:1986;439-446.
27. Siegel S.M., Puerner N.J., Speitel T.W. Release of volatile mercury from vascular plants. Physiol Plant. 32:1974;174-176.
28. Sladek C., Gustin M.S. Evaluation of sequential and selective extraction methods for determination of mercury speciation and mobility in mine waste. Appl Geochem. 18:2002;369-375.
29. Sladek C., Gustin M.S., Kim C.S., Biester H. Application of three methods for determining mercury speciation in mine waste. Geochem: Explor, Environ Anal. 2:2002;276-369.
30. Zhang H., Lindberg S.E., Marsik F.J., Keeler G.J. Mercury air/surface exchange kinetics of background soils of the Tahquamenon River Watershed in the Michigan Upper Peninsula. Water Air Soil Pollut. 126:(1-2):2000;51-169.