Air-surface exchange in grasslands

What is it about?

This is a mini-review published in the special edition "Environmental Chemistry of Mercury: Sources, Pathways, Transformations and Impact" of Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, which focuses on the presentations at the 16th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) in Cape Town in July 2024. The mini-review discusses potential impact of mercury cycle studies in grassland as well as key naturally and semi-naturally occurring processes that influence the mercury dynamics between the air and grassland surface.

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Why is it important?

Grassland covers significant portion of Earth's land surface. Nevertheless, the dynamics of the air-surface exchange of mercury in grassland are highly uncertain. Research on fundamental biotic and abiotic processes in grasslands will progress our understanding of mercury cycle in the biosphere.