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Assessing Air-Surface Exchange and Fate of Mercury in a Subtropical Forest Using a Novel Passive Exchange-Meter Device TEXT SIZE: A A A
A novel passive exchange meter (EM) device was developed to assess air-surface exchange and leaching of Hg in a forest floor. Flux measurements were carried out in a subtropical forest ecosystem during a full year. Over 40% of the Hg fixed in fresh forest litter was remobilized in less than 60 days in warm and humid conditions as a response to rapid turnover of labile organic matter (OM). A two-block experiment including understory and clearing showed that losses of Hg covaried with seasonal conditions and was significantly affected by forest coverage. The process controlling the bulk loss of total Hg from the litter was volatilization, which typically represented 76-96% of the loss processes (F-loss). The F-loss ranges were 520-1370 and 165-942 ng m(-2) d(-1) in the understory and clearing, respectively. On a yearly basis, deposition of airborne Hg exceeded total losses by a factor of 2.5 in the clearing and 1.5 in the understory. The vegetation litter in this subtropical forest therefore represented a net sink of atmospheric Hg. This study provided a novel approach to Hg air-soil exchange measurements and further insights on the link between Hg remobilization and OM turnover along with its environmental drivers.
 

Publication name

 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 53 (9):4869-4879; 10.1021/acs.est.8b06343 MAY 7 2019

Author(s)

 Zhang, Hui; Nizzetto, Luca; Feng, Xinbin; Borga, Katrine; Sommar, Jonas; Fu, Xuewu; Zhang, Hua; Zhang, Gan; Larssen, Thorjorn

Corresponding author(s) 

 FENG Xinbin; FU Xuewu 
 fengxinbin@vip.skleg.cn; fuxuewu@mail.gyig.ac.cn  
 -Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geochem, State Key Lab Environm Geochem, 99 Lincheng West Rd, Guiyang 550081, Guizhou, Peoples R China.
 -CAS Ctr Excellence Quaternary Sci & Global Change, Xian 710061, Peoples R China. 
 Luca Nizzetto 
 luca.nizzetto@niva.no
 -Norwegian Inst Water Res, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway.
 -Masaryk Univ, Res Ctr Tox Cpds Environm, CS-60177 Brno, Czech Republic.

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