Mercury concentrations in seabirds (IMAGE)

Nagoya University

Mercury concentrations in seabirds

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This study provides the drivers of variation in mercury concentrations in seabirds and, further, the first biologically based estimate of oceanic mercury distribution, analyzing blood mercury levels in more than 11,215 seabirds from 108 species, including 659 newly collected samples and over 10,556 from prior research. (THg: total mercury)

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Jumpei Okado (modified from Okado et al. 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0)

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