Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention on mercury, understanding the air–surface mercury exchange in grasslands is important as they cover 20%–40% of the Earth's land surface. An in-depth quantitative understanding of the processes of the mercury cycle, such as dry and wet depositions, evasion from soil, plant uptake, and natural and prescribed biomass burning, is essential to explore the mercury cycle in these regions; however, only a limited number of studies are available on these processes, and many questions regarding them still remain. In this mini-review, the key emission and sinking processes occurring in natural and semi-natural grasslands and the potential of stable mercury isotope measurements for tracing studies of mercury origin(s) in grasslands are discussed.
Author: Satoshi Irei
Institution: National Institute for Minamata Disease
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Life on land, Climate action
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,353
OpenAlex ID: W4414520503