Articles | Volume 17, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6441-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6441-2020
Research article
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21 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 21 Dec 2020

A bottom-up quantification of foliar mercury uptake fluxes across Europe

Lena Wohlgemuth, Stefan Osterwalder, Carl Joseph, Ansgar Kahmen, Günter Hoch, Christine Alewell, and Martin Jiskra

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Mercury uptake by trees from the air represents an important but poorly quantified pathway in the global mercury cycle. We determined mercury uptake fluxes by leaves and needles at 10 European forests which were 4 times larger than mercury deposition via rainfall. The amount of mercury taken up by leaves and needles depends on their age and growing height on the tree. Scaling up our measurements to the forest area of Europe, we estimate that each year 20 t of mercury is taken up by trees.
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