{"title":"Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems","authors":"Zhijia Ci, Wenjie Shen, Baowei Chen, Yanbin Li, Yongguang Yin, Xiaoshan Zhang, Yong Cai","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01472-x","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The co-accumulation and close interactions of climate-friendly organic carbon and neurotoxic mercury in coastal ecosystems show that nature-based solutions to the climate crisis can alter the global mercury cycle and risk. Nature-based mitigation and adaptation strategies should therefore consider the carbon–mercury nexus to maximize sustainability goals.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 12","pages":"1560-1561"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Sustainability","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01472-x","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The co-accumulation and close interactions of climate-friendly organic carbon and neurotoxic mercury in coastal ecosystems show that nature-based solutions to the climate crisis can alter the global mercury cycle and risk. Nature-based mitigation and adaptation strategies should therefore consider the carbon–mercury nexus to maximize sustainability goals.
期刊介绍:
Nature Sustainability aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogues and bring together research fields that contribute to understanding how we organize our lives in a finite world and the impacts of our actions.
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