Seasonal Variation of Mercury Methylation Potential in Pristine Coastal Marine Sediment from the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea) is considered as an important “natural bioreactor” that can be stimulated to increase sedimentary methylmercury (MeHg) production by mobilizing its extensive mercury (Hg) pool. Sediment samples, collected in the southern pristine, less contaminated, part of the gulf, were amended with radioactive 197Hg in incubation experiments to determine the seasonal variation of Hg methylation potential at two ...