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Eutrophication Increases Phytoplankton Methylmercury Concentrations in a Coastal SeaA Baltic Sea Case Study by Soerensen, Anne. L, Schartup, Amina T, Gustafsson, Erik, Gustafsson, Bo G, Undeman, Emma, Björn, Erik

“…Eutrophication is expanding worldwide, but its implication for production and bioaccumulation of neurotoxic monomethylmercury (MeHg) is unknown. We developed a…”
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Mercury biogeochemical cycling in the ocean and policy implications by Mason, Robert P., Choi, Anna L., Fitzgerald, William F., Hammerschmidt, Chad R., Lamborg, Carl H., Soerensen, Anne L., Sunderland, Elsie M.

“…Anthropogenic activities have enriched mercury in the biosphere by at least a factor of three, leading to increases in total mercury (Hg) in the surface ocean…”
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Freshwater discharges drive high levels of methylmercury in Arctic marine biota by Schartup, Amina T., Balcom, Prentiss H., Soerensen, Anne L., Gosnell, Kathleen J., Calder, Ryan S. D., Mason, Robert P., Sunderland, Elsie M.

“…Elevated levels of neurotoxic methylmercury in Arctic food-webs pose health risks for indigenous populations that consume large quantities of marine mammals…”
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Mercury-methylating bacteria are associated with copepods: A proof-of-principle survey in the Baltic Sea by Gorokhova, Elena, Soerensen, Anne L, Motwani, Nisha H

“…Methylmercury (MeHg) is a potent neurotoxin that biomagnifies in marine food webs. Inorganic mercury (Hg) methylation is conducted by heterotrophic bacteria…”
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Deltaproteobacteria and Spirochaetes-Like Bacteria Are Abundant Putative Mercury Methylators in Oxygen-Deficient Water and Marine Particles in the Baltic Sea by Capo, Eric, Bravo, Andrea G, Soerensen, Anne L, Bertilsson, Stefan, Pinhassi, Jarone, Feng, Caiyan, Andersson, Anders F, Buck, Moritz, Björn, Erik

“…Methylmercury (MeHg), a neurotoxic compound biomagnifying in aquatic food webs, can be a threat to human health via fish consumption. However, the composition…”
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Methylmercury Mass Budgets and Distribution Characteristics in the Western Pacific Ocean by Kim, Hyunji, Soerensen, Anne L, Hur, Jin, Heimbürger, Lars-Eric, Hahm, Doshik, Rhee, Tae Siek, Noh, Seam, Han, Seunghee

“…Methylmercury (MeHg) accumulation in marine organisms poses serious ecosystem and human health risk, yet the sources of MeHg in the surface and subsurface…”
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Long-term dataset for contaminants in fish, mussels, and bird eggs from the Baltic Sea by Ammar, Yosr, Faxneld, Suzanne, Sköld, Martin, Soerensen, Anne L.

“…Widespread persistent contaminants are a global environmental problem. In the Baltic Sea, wildlife contamination was first noticed in the 1960s, prompting the…”
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Interval breast cancer rates for digital breast tomosynthesis versus digital mammography population screening: An individual participant data meta-analysis by Houssami, Nehmat, Hofvind, Solveig, Soerensen, Anne L., Robledo, Kristy P., Hunter, Kylie, Bernardi, Daniela, Lång, Kristina, Johnson, Kristin, Aglen, Camilla F., Zackrisson, Sophia

“…Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) improves breast cancer (BC) detection compared to mammography, however, it is unknown whether this reduces interval cancer…”
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Four Decades of Spatiotemporal Variability of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in the Baltic Sea by Soerensen, Anne L., Benskin, Jonathan P., Faxneld, Suzanne

“…Temporal and spatial variability of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in herring, cod, eelpout, and guillemot covering four decades and more than…”
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Fish tissue conversion factors for mercury, cadmium, lead and nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances for use within contaminant monitoring by Soerensen, Anne L., Faxneld, Suzanne, Pettersson, Maria, Sköld, Martin

“…Fish tissue levels have to comply with environmental quality standards (EQSs) within the European Water Framework Directive. However, within monitoring,…”
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A Global Model for Methylmercury Formation and Uptake at the Base of Marine Food Webs by Zhang, Yanxu, Soerensen, Anne L., Schartup, Amina T., Sunderland, Elsie M.

“…Monomethylmercury (CH3Hg) is the only form of mercury (Hg) known to biomagnify in food webs. Here we investigate factors driving methylated mercury [MeHg =…”
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Spatial and temporal variations in riverine mercury in the Mackenzie River Basin, Canada, from community-based water quality monitoring data by Åkerblom, Staffan, Zdanowicz, Christian, Campeau, Audrey, Soerensen, Anne L., Hewitt, Jack

“…Arctic rivers deliver ~40 t yr−1 of mercury (Hg) to the Arctic Ocean, ~6 % of which is from the Mackenzie River Basin (MRB), a region warming at ~3 times the…”
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A Coupled Global Atmosphere-Ocean Model for Air-Sea Exchange of Mercury: Insights into Wet Deposition and Atmospheric Redox Chemistry by Zhang, Yanxu, Horowitz, Hannah, Wang, Jiancheng, Xie, Zhouqing, Kuss, Joachim, Soerensen, Anne L

“…Air–sea exchange of mercury (Hg) is the largest flux between Earth system reservoirs. Global models simulate air–sea exchange based either on an atmospheric or…”
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Mercury Sources and Fate in a Large Brackish Ecosystem (the Baltic Sea) Depicted by Stable Isotopes by Bouchet, Sylvain, Soerensen, Anne L., Björn, Erik, Tessier, Emmanuel, Amouroux, David

“…Identifying Hg sources to aquatic ecosystems and processes controlling the levels of monomethylmercury (MMHg) is critical for developing efficient policies of…”
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Mass Budget of Methylmercury in the East Siberian Sea: The Importance of Sediment Sources by Kim, Jihee, Soerensen, Anne L, Kim, Mi Seon, Eom, Sangwoo, Rhee, Tae Siek, Jin, Young Keun, Han, Seunghee

“…Biological concentrations of methylmercury (MeHg) are elevated throughout the Arctic Ocean; however, to date, the major sources and the spatial variability of…”
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Expression Levels of hgcAB Genes and Mercury Availability Jointly Explain Methylmercury Formation in Stratified Brackish Waters by Capo, Eric, Feng, Caiyan, Bravo, Andrea G., Bertilsson, Stefan, Soerensen, Anne L., Pinhassi, Jarone, Buck, Moritz, Karlsson, Camilla, Hawkes, Jeffrey, Björn, Erik

“…Neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) is formed by microbial methylation of inorganic divalent Hg (HgII) and constitutes severe environmental and human health risks…”
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What are the likely changes in mercury concentration in the Arctic atmosphere and ocean under future emissions scenarios? by Schartup, Amina T., Soerensen, Anne L., Angot, Hélène, Bowman, Katlin, Selin, Noelle E.

“…Arctic mercury (Hg) concentrations respond to changes in anthropogenic Hg emissions and environmental change. This manuscript, prepared for the 2021 Arctic…”
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Cross-shelf processes of terrigenous organic matter drive mercury speciation on the east siberian shelf in the Arctic Ocean by Kim, Jihee, Soerensen, Anne L., Jeong, Hakwon, Jeong, Seorin, Kim, Eunsuk, Lee, Yung Mi, Jin, Young Keun, Rhee, Tae Siek, Hong, Jong Kuk, Han, Seunghee

“…The cross-shelf distributions of total mercury (THg), methylmercury (MeHg) and organic and inorganic matter, as well as the presence of the hgcA gene were…”
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Uptake Kinetics of Methylmercury in a Freshwater Alga Exposed to Methylmercury Complexes with Environmentally Relevant Thiols by Skrobonja, Aleksandra, Gojkovic, Zivan, Soerensen, Anne L, Westlund, Per-Olof, Funk, Christiane, Björn, Erik

“…Cellular uptake of dissolved methylmercury (MeHg) by phytoplankton is the most important point of entry for MeHg into aquatic food webs. However, the process…”
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The Global Marine Selenium Cycle: Insights From Measurements and Modeling by Mason, Robert P., Soerensen, Anne L., DiMento, Brian P., Balcom, Prentiss H.

“…Anthropogenic activities have increased the selenium (Se) concentration in the biosphere, but the overall impact on the ocean has not been examined. While Se…”
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