Moeling Mercury Uptake In The Everglades Algae.

The presence of mercury in the aquatic food chain has always been a concern due to its accumulative effects in the chain. Over the last 100 years the average global atmospheric mercury concentration has increased by five fold from 0.3 ng m-3 to 1.5 ng m-3. The two main sources of atmospheric mercury emissions are natural sources such as volcanoes and solis, and anthropogenic sources that include combustion and waste incineration......

Modeling Mercury Contamination In The Evreglades Ecosystem : From Atmospheric Transport To Wetland.

The Florida Everglades is a vast wetland of about 10,000km located in Southern Floridaof The United States Of America.Bioaccumulation of mercury in the aquatic food chain in the Florida Everglades has been concert for seversl decades.High mercury burdens of 2.5mg/kg have been recorded by the Florida Department of Health in the largemouth bass in the Everglades,a level that is deemed unsafe by all health-based standards.The major sources of mecury in the Everglades wetlands are deprived from industrial combustions and waste incinerations transportedthrough the atmosphere over different lenght scales