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Global and Regional Mercury Cycles: Sources, Fluxes and Mass Balances

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Editors:
  1. Willy Baeyens

    1. Dept. of Analytical Chemistry, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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  2. Ralf Ebinghaus

    1. GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht Gmbh, Geesthacht, Germany

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  3. Oleg Vasiliev

    1. Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Barnaul, Russia

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2 (ASEN2, volume 21)

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Analytical Aspects on the Determination of Mercury

    1. Mercury Analysis and Speciation in Environmental Samples

      • M. Horvat
      Pages 1-31

  3. Mercury Fluxes and Budgets

    2. Emission Inventories and Regional Transport Models for Mercury

      1. Emission Inventories of Atmospheric Mercury from Anthropogenic Sources
        • J. M. Pacyna
        Pages 161-177
      2. Inventory of North American Hg Emissions to the Atmosphere
        • D. B. Porcella, P. Chu, M. A. Allan
        Pages 179-190
      3. Numerical Modeling of Regional Transport, Chemical Transformations and Deposition Fluxes of Airborne Mercury Species
        • G. Petersen, J. Munthe, R. Bloxam
        Pages 191-217
      4. A Model of the Chemical Transformation of Mercury and its Long-Range Atmospheric Transport
        • M. Galperin, M. Sofiev, E. Mantseva
        Pages 219-227

    3. Mercury Cycling in the Oceans

      1. Mercury Fluxes at the Ocean Margins
        • D. Cossa, M. Coquery, C. Gobeil, J.-M. Martin
        Pages 229-247
      2. Sources, Sinks and Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury in the Ocean
        • R. P. Mason, W. F. Fitzgerald
        Pages 249-272

    4. Mercury in Lake, Rivers and Estuaries

      1. Mercury in the Katun River Basin: A Case Study of a Naturally Polluted System
        • O. F. Vasiliev, T. S. Papina, S. S. Eyrikh, S. A. Sukhenko
        Pages 273-284
      2. Particulate, Dissolved and Methylmercury Budgets for the Scheldt Estuary (Belgium and the Netherlands)
        • W. Baeyens, M. Leermakers
        Pages 285-301
      3. Mercury Distribution and Fluxes in Lake Baikal
        • M. Leermakers, C. Meuleman, W. Baeyens
        Pages 303-315
      4. The Elbe River: A Special Example for a European River Contaminated Heavily with Mercury
        • R.-D. Wilken, D. Wallschläger
        Pages 317-328
      5. Mass Balance Studies of Mercury and Methyl Mercury in Small Temperate/Boreal Lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
        • C. J. Watras, K. A. Morrison, R. C. Back
        Pages 329-358
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About this book

Essential themes in the biochemical cycling of mercury are the relative importance of anthropogenic versus natural sources, transformation and migration processes at the local, regional and global scale, global emission inventories of different mercury sources (both point and diffuse) of both natural and anthropogenic origin. In this regard, Siberia, with its vast territory and variety of natural zones, is of special interest in the global mercury cycle and in terms of the influence of geographical zones on source and sink terms in regional budgets. Siberia contains large areas of mercuriferous belts; natural deposits that emit mercury into the atmosphere and water. Siberian gold has been mined with the use of mercury since the early 1800s. But there, too, huge forest zones and vast areas of tundra and wetland (bogs) can act as efficient sinks for atmospheric mercury.
Audience: Environmental scientists, legislators, politicians and the interested citizen wishing to gain a clear picture of the biogeochemical cycling of mercury.

Reviews

`I recommend this book to any ecotoxicologist who will sooner or later have to deal with the problems of mercury contamination.'
International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 10:1 (1998)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Analytical Chemistry, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

    Willy Baeyens

  • GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht Gmbh, Geesthacht, Germany

    Ralf Ebinghaus

  • Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Barnaul, Russia

    Oleg Vasiliev

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global and Regional Mercury Cycles: Sources, Fluxes and Mass Balances

  • Editors: Willy Baeyens, Ralf Ebinghaus, Oleg Vasiliev

  • Series Title: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1780-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4314-1Published: 31 October 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7295-3Published: 28 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1780-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-1839

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 563

  • Topics: Ecology, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Inorganic Chemistry

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