image: After 3300 individual injections of mercury isotopes the first sediment core of twelve is now ready to be immersed into a water filled mesocosm tank (75 centimeters in diameter and 5 meters high with a volume of 2,000 liters).. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 27, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Jonsson at Umeå University inUmeå, Sweden, and colleagues was titled, 'Terrestrial discharges mediate trophic shifts and enhance methylmercury accumulation in estuarine biota.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Sofi Jonsson]