%0 journal article
%@ 1448-2517
%A Ebinghaus, R.

%D 2008
%J Environmental Chemistry
%N 2
%P 87-88 
%R doi:10.1071/EN08024
%T Mercury cycling in the Arctic – Does enhanced deposition flux mean net-input?
%U https://doi.org/10.1071/EN08024
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%X Mercury has unique physico-chemical characteristics that include long-range atmospheric transport, transformation into highly toxic methylmercury species, and the bioaccumulation of these compounds, especially in the marine environment. This has motivated intense international research on mercury as a pollutant of global concern. With respect to Polar regions, scientific interest and research activities were even accelerated after the discovery of the so-called atmospheric mercury depletion events (AMDEs), which are supposed to lead to enhanced mercury deposition flux into these pristine environments in the ecologically very sensitive period in polar spring.