{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,31]],"date-time":"2026-10-31T10:31:25Z","timestamp":1793442685940,"version":"4.5.0"},"reference-count":105,"publisher":"Elsevier BV","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,12,1]],"date-time":"2026-12-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1796083200000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/tdm\/userlicense\/1.0\/"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,12,1]],"date-time":"2026-12-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1796083200000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/legal\/tdmrep-license"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,12,1]],"date-time":"2026-12-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1796083200000},"content-version":"stm-asf","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15223\/policy-017"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,12,1]],"date-time":"2026-12-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1796083200000},"content-version":"stm-asf","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15223\/policy-037"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,12,1]],"date-time":"2026-12-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1796083200000},"content-version":"stm-asf","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15223\/policy-012"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,12,1]],"date-time":"2026-12-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1796083200000},"content-version":"stm-asf","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15223\/policy-029"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,12,1]],"date-time":"2026-12-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1796083200000},"content-version":"stm-asf","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15223\/policy-004"}],"funder":[{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100001809","name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["42507511"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["42507511"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100001809","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100001809","name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["42373076"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["42373076"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100001809","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["elsevier.com","sciencedirect.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Marine Pollution Bulletin"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,12]]},"DOI":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,17]],"date-time":"2026-08-17T07:06:43Z","timestamp":1786950403000},"page":"120263","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/elsevier_cm_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"special_numbering":"P2","title":["Cascading effects of climate change on the marine mercury cycle"],"prefix":"10.1016","volume":"233","author":[{"given":"Wenzhuo","family":"Yao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiangyu","family":"Kong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanbin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"78","reference":[{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"10591","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.4c01112","article-title":"Dimethylmercury as a source of monomethylmercury in a highly productive upwelling system","volume":"58","author":"Adams","year":"2024","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0010","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8187","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.9b01502","article-title":"Microbial biosynthesis of thiol compounds: implications for speciation, cellular uptake, and methylation of Hg(II)","volume":"53","author":"Adediran","year":"2019","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"195","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-marine-010213-135020","article-title":"Carbon cycling and storage in mangrove forests","volume":"6","author":"Alongi","year":"2014","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0020","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"9514","DOI":"10.1021\/es502134t","article-title":"Global biogeochemical implications of mercury discharges from rivers and sediment burial","volume":"48","author":"Amos","year":"2014","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0025","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"951","DOI":"10.1021\/es9808200","article-title":"Sulfide controls on mercury speciation and bioavailability to methylating bacteria in sediment pore waters","volume":"33","author":"Benoit","year":"1999","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0030","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6607","DOI":"10.5194\/bg-22-6607-2025","article-title":"Colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) alters the seasonal physics and biogeochemistry of the Arctic Mackenzie River plume","volume":"22","author":"Bertin","year":"2025","journal-title":"Biogeosciences"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0035","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19473","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1017982108","article-title":"The role of terrestrially derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean: a changing paradigm and the priming effect","volume":"108","author":"Bianchi","year":"2011","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"879","DOI":"10.1038\/ngeo1918","article-title":"Methylmercury production below the mixed layer in the North Pacific Ocean","volume":"6","author":"Blum","year":"2013","journal-title":"Nat. Geosci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0045","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"156","DOI":"10.1016\/j.marchem.2016.09.005","article-title":"Distribution of mercury species across a zonal section of the eastern tropical South Pacific Ocean (U.S. GEOTRACES GP16)","volume":"186","author":"Bowman","year":"2016","journal-title":"Mar. Chem."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0050","first-page":"453","article-title":"A global perspective on mercury cycling in the ocean","volume":"12","author":"Bowman","year":"2020","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0055","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1010","DOI":"10.1002\/lno.11366","article-title":"Biotic formation of methylmercury: a bio-physico-chemical conundrum","volume":"65","author":"Bravo","year":"2020","journal-title":"Limnol. Oceanogr."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0060","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1038\/ncomms14255","article-title":"Molecular composition of organic matter controls methylmercury formation in boreal lakes","volume":"8","author":"Bravo","year":"2017","journal-title":"Nat. Commun."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0065","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1126\/science.aam7240","article-title":"Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters","volume":"359","author":"Breitburg","year":"2018","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0070","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2020.574080","article-title":"Deltaproteobacteria and Spirochaetes-like bacteria are abundant putative mercury methylators in oxygen-deficient water and marine particles in the Baltic Sea","volume":"11","author":"Capo","year":"2020","journal-title":"Front. Microbiol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0075","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"13119","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.2c03784","article-title":"Expression levels of hgcAB genes and mercury availability jointly explain methylmercury formation in stratified brackish waters","volume":"56","author":"Capo","year":"2022","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0080","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2022.153715","article-title":"Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: abiotic interactions","volume":"824","author":"Ch\u00e9telat","year":"2022","journal-title":"Sci. Total Environ."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0085","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"498","DOI":"10.1128\/aem.50.2.498-502.1985","article-title":"Sulfate-reducing bacteria: principal methylators of mercury in anoxic estuarine sediment","volume":"50","author":"Compeau","year":"1985","journal-title":"Appl. Environ. Microbiol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0090","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4037","DOI":"10.1016\/j.gca.2011.05.001","article-title":"Mercury in the Southern Ocean","volume":"75","author":"Cossa","year":"2011","journal-title":"Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0095","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"222","DOI":"10.1016\/j.gca.2016.11.037","article-title":"The open sea as the main source of methylmercury in the water column of the Gulf of Lions (Northwestern Mediterranean margin)","volume":"199","author":"Cossa","year":"2017","journal-title":"Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0100","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"270","DOI":"10.1038\/s43017-022-00269-w","article-title":"Arctic mercury cycling","volume":"3","author":"Dastoor","year":"2022","journal-title":"Nat. Rev. Earth Environ."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0105","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"321","DOI":"10.1071\/EN11140","article-title":"The fate of mercury in Arctic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, a review","volume":"9","author":"Douglas","year":"2012","journal-title":"Environ. Chem."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0110","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"170","DOI":"10.1007\/s13280-017-1011-x","article-title":"Modulators of mercury risk to wildlife and humans in the context of rapid global change","volume":"47","author":"Eagles-Smith","year":"2018","journal-title":"Ambio"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0115","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7644","DOI":"10.1021\/es400715r","article-title":"Mercury export to the Arctic Ocean from the Mackenzie River, Canada","volume":"47","author":"Emmerton","year":"2013","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0120","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"325","DOI":"10.1007\/s10646-024-02747-x","article-title":"Global mercury concentrations in biota: their use as a basis for a global biomonitoring framework","volume":"33","author":"Evers","year":"2024","journal-title":"Ecotoxicology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0125","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"499","DOI":"10.1038\/ngeo1478","article-title":"Riverine source of Arctic Ocean mercury inferred from atmospheric observations","volume":"5","author":"Fisher","year":"2012","journal-title":"Nat. Geosci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0130","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"641","DOI":"10.1021\/cr050353m","article-title":"Marine biogeochemical cycling of mercury","volume":"107","author":"Fitzgerald","year":"2007","journal-title":"Chem. Rev."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0135","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11672","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.6b03260","article-title":"Role of settling particles on mercury methylation in the oxic water column of freshwater systems","volume":"50","author":"Gasc\u00f3n D\u00edez","year":"2016","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0140","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11810","DOI":"10.1021\/es403075t","article-title":"Mercury methylation by novel microorganisms from new environments","volume":"47","author":"Gilmour","year":"2013","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0145","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2715","DOI":"10.1021\/es203658f","article-title":"Dissolved organic matter enhances microbial mercury methylation under sulfidic conditions","volume":"46","author":"Graham","year":"2012","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0150","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1980","DOI":"10.1098\/rsta.2011.0003","article-title":"Warming up, turning sour, losing breath: ocean biogeochemistry under global change","volume":"369","author":"Gruber","year":"2011","journal-title":"Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0155","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3564","DOI":"10.1021\/es025699i","article-title":"Binding of mercury(II) to dissolved organic matter: the role of the mercury-to-DOM concentration ratio","volume":"36","author":"Haitzer","year":"2002","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0160","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"13","DOI":"10.1023\/A:1018071406537","article-title":"Food as the dominant pathway of methylmercury uptake by fish","volume":"100","author":"Hall","year":"1997","journal-title":"Water Air Soil Pollut."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0165","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"77","DOI":"10.1016\/j.marchem.2012.02.005","article-title":"Vertical methylmercury distribution in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean","volume":"132\u2013133","author":"Hammerschmidt","year":"2012","journal-title":"Mar. Chem."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0170","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"175","DOI":"10.1023\/A:1005986505407","article-title":"Temperature, growth and dietary effects on fish mercury dynamics in two Ontario lakes","volume":"40","author":"Harris","year":"1998","journal-title":"Biogeochemistry"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0175","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2441","DOI":"10.1021\/es304370g","article-title":"Mechanisms regulating mercury bioavailability for methylating microorganisms in the aquatic environment: a critical review","volume":"47","author":"Hsu-Kim","year":"2013","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0180","series-title":"Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis","author":"IPCC","year":"2021"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0185","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2022.157445","article-title":"Arctic methylmercury cycling","volume":"850","author":"Jonsson","year":"2022","journal-title":"Sci. Total Environ."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0190","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7477","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0611261104","article-title":"Stoichiometric controls of mercury dilution by growth","volume":"104","author":"Karimi","year":"2007","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0195","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"199","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.marine.010908.163855","article-title":"Ocean deoxygenation in a warming world","volume":"2","author":"Keeling","year":"2010","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0200","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7919","DOI":"10.1128\/AEM.01602-06","article-title":"Mercury methylation by dissimilatory iron-reducing bacteria","volume":"72","author":"Kerin","year":"2006","journal-title":"Appl. Environ. Microbiol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0205","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"300","DOI":"10.1016\/j.marchem.2006.05.006","article-title":"The impact of resuspension on sediment mercury dynamics, and methylmercury production and fate: a mesocosm study","volume":"102","author":"Kim","year":"2006","journal-title":"Mar. Chem."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0210","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"53","DOI":"10.1038\/nature12856","article-title":"Tidal wetland stability in the face of human impacts and sea-level rise","volume":"504","author":"Kirwan","year":"2013","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0215","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"65","DOI":"10.1038\/nature13563","article-title":"A global ocean inventory of anthropogenic mercury based on water column measurements","volume":"512","author":"Lamborg","year":"2014","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0220","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"13385","DOI":"10.1021\/es403103t","article-title":"Biomagnification of mercury in aquatic food webs: a worldwide meta-analysis","volume":"47","author":"Lavoie","year":"2013","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0225","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1626","DOI":"10.1002\/lno.10318","article-title":"Methylmercury uptake by diverse marine phytoplankton","volume":"61","author":"Lee","year":"2016","journal-title":"Limnol. Oceanogr."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0230","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"178","DOI":"10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2006.10.041","article-title":"The delivery of mercury to the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean by the Mackenzie River","volume":"373","author":"Leitch","year":"2007","journal-title":"Sci. Total Environ."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0235","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"333","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envint.2018.08.017","article-title":"Impacts of farmed fish consumption and food trade on methylmercury exposure in China","volume":"120","author":"Liu","year":"2018","journal-title":"Environ. Int."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0240","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11","DOI":"10.1016\/j.marchem.2010.08.004","article-title":"Mercury methylation in oxygen deficient zones of the oceans: no evidence for the predominance of anaerobes","volume":"122","author":"Malcolm","year":"2010","journal-title":"Mar. Chem."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0245","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1029\/2001GB001440","article-title":"Role of the ocean in the global mercury cycle","volume":"16","author":"Mason","year":"2002","journal-title":"Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0250","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1835","DOI":"10.1021\/es950373d","article-title":"Uptake, toxicity, and trophic transfer of mercury in a coastal diatom","volume":"30","author":"Mason","year":"1996","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0255","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"101","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envres.2012.03.013","article-title":"Mercury biogeochemical cycling in the ocean and policy implications","volume":"119","author":"Mason","year":"2012","journal-title":"Environ. Res."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0260","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2022.155221","article-title":"Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: biotic interactions","volume":"834","author":"McKinney","year":"2022","journal-title":"Sci. Total Environ."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0265","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3","DOI":"10.1579\/0044-7447(2007)36[3:MEAHEI]2.0.CO;2","article-title":"Methylmercury exposure and health effects in humans: a worldwide concern","volume":"36","author":"Mergler","year":"2007","journal-title":"Ambio"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0270","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"543","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.ecolsys.29.1.543","article-title":"The chemical cycle and bioaccumulation of mercury","volume":"29","author":"Morel","year":"1998","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0275","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6451","DOI":"10.5194\/bg-15-6451-2018","article-title":"Dynamic mercury methylation and demethylation in oligotrophic marine water","volume":"15","author":"Munson","year":"2018","journal-title":"Biogeosciences"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0280","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"116","DOI":"10.1007\/s13280-017-1004-9","article-title":"A review of global environmental mercury processes in response to human and natural perturbations: changes of emissions, climate, and land use","volume":"47","author":"Obrist","year":"2018","journal-title":"Ambio"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0285","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"753","DOI":"10.1016\/j.marchem.2015.07.006","article-title":"An examination of the factors influencing mercury and methylmercury particulate distributions, methylation and demethylation rates in laboratory-produced marine snow","volume":"177","author":"Ortiz","year":"2015","journal-title":"Mar. Chem."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0290","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"467","DOI":"10.1038\/s41561-018-0152-2","article-title":"Drivers and mechanisms of ocean deoxygenation","volume":"11","author":"Oschlies","year":"2018","journal-title":"Nat. Geosci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0295","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"85","DOI":"10.1139\/facets-2016-0027","article-title":"Recent advances in the study of mercury methylation in aquatic systems","volume":"2","author":"Paranjape","year":"2017","journal-title":"FACETS"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0300","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4419","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.072531099","article-title":"Algal blooms reduce the uptake of toxic methylmercury in freshwater food webs","volume":"99","author":"Pickhardt","year":"2002","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0305","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"188","DOI":"10.1038\/ngeo1049","article-title":"Methylmercury photodegradation influenced by sea-ice cover in Arctic marine ecosystems","volume":"4","author":"Point","year":"2011","journal-title":"Nat. Geosci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0310","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"426","DOI":"10.1021\/ez500254z","article-title":"Why dissolved organic matter enhances photodegradation of methylmercury","volume":"1","author":"Qian","year":"2014","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0315","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"585","DOI":"10.5194\/bg-7-585-2010","article-title":"Dynamics and distribution of natural and human-caused hypoxia","volume":"7","author":"Rabalais","year":"2010","journal-title":"Biogeosciences"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0320","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"319","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chemosphere.2003.11.011","article-title":"Interactions between mercury and dissolved organic matter: a review","volume":"55","author":"Ravichandran","year":"2004","journal-title":"Chemosphere"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0325","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"597","DOI":"10.1038\/ngeo1830","article-title":"Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean","volume":"6","author":"Regnier","year":"2013","journal-title":"Nat. Geosci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0330","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"93","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envpol.2014.04.003","article-title":"Mercury loads into the sea associated with extreme flood","volume":"191","author":"Saniewska","year":"2014","journal-title":"Environ. Pollut."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0335","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"593","DOI":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2017.12.058","article-title":"Impact of intense rains and flooding on mercury riverine input to the coastal zone","volume":"127","author":"Saniewska","year":"2018","journal-title":"Mar. Pollut. Bull."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0340","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8714","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1105781108","article-title":"Active transport, substrate specificity, and methylation of Hg(II) in anaerobic bacteria","volume":"108","author":"Schaefer","year":"2011","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0345","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3007","DOI":"10.1021\/es405215v","article-title":"Effect of divalent metals on Hg(II) uptake and methylation by bacteria","volume":"48","author":"Schaefer","year":"2014","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0350","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11789","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1505541112","article-title":"Freshwater discharges drive high levels of methylmercury in Arctic marine biota","volume":"112","author":"Schartup","year":"2015","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0355","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"654","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.7b03821","article-title":"A model for methylmercury uptake and trophic transfer by marine plankton","volume":"52","author":"Schartup","year":"2018","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0360","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"648","DOI":"10.1038\/s41586-019-1468-9","article-title":"Climate change and overfishing increase neurotoxicant in marine predators","volume":"572","author":"Schartup","year":"2019","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0365","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1463","DOI":"10.1002\/2017GL075571","article-title":"Permafrost stores a globally significant amount of mercury","volume":"45","author":"Schuster","year":"2018","journal-title":"Geophys. Res. Lett."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0370","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"43","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.environ.051308.084314","article-title":"Global biogeochemical cycling of mercury: a review","volume":"34","author":"Selin","year":"2009","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0375","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"694","DOI":"10.1038\/380694a0","article-title":"Photodegradation of methylmercury in lakes","volume":"380","author":"Sellers","year":"1996","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0380","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"254","DOI":"10.2471\/BLT.12.116152","article-title":"Global methylmercury exposure from seafood consumption and risk of developmental neurotoxicity: a systematic review","volume":"92","author":"Sheehan","year":"2014","journal-title":"Bull. World Health Organ."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0385","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1029\/2008JG000745","article-title":"Competition among thiols and inorganic sulfides and polysulfides for Hg and MeHg in wetland soils and sediments under suboxic conditions: illumination of controversies and implications for MeHg net production","volume":"113","author":"Skyllberg","year":"2008","journal-title":"J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0390","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"560","DOI":"10.1002\/2015GB005280","article-title":"A mass budget for mercury and methylmercury in the Arctic Ocean","volume":"30","author":"Soerensen","year":"2016","journal-title":"Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0395","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11787","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.6b02717","article-title":"Eutrophication increases phytoplankton methylmercury concentrations in a coastal sea-a Baltic Sea case study","volume":"50","author":"Soerensen","year":"2016","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0400","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1498","DOI":"10.1029\/2018GB005942","article-title":"Deciphering the role of water column redoxclines on methylmercury cycling using speciation modeling and observations from the Baltic Sea","volume":"32","author":"Soerensen","year":"2018","journal-title":"Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0405","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4903","DOI":"10.1038\/s41467-022-32650-0","article-title":"A global assessment of the mixed layer in coastal sediments and implications for carbon storage","volume":"13","author":"Song","year":"2022","journal-title":"Nat. Commun."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0410","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"853","DOI":"10.1007\/s13280-023-01855-y","article-title":"Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling","volume":"52","author":"Sonke","year":"2023","journal-title":"Ambio"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0415","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"22","DOI":"10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2011.10.039","article-title":"How does climate change influence Arctic mercury?","volume":"414","author":"Stern","year":"2012","journal-title":"Sci. Total Environ."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0420","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5969","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.7b00451","article-title":"Total mercury released to the environment by human activities","volume":"51","author":"Streets","year":"2017","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0425","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1029\/2006GB002766","article-title":"Air-sea exchange in the global mercury cycle","volume":"21","author":"Strode","year":"2007","journal-title":"Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0430","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"235","DOI":"10.1289\/ehp.9377","article-title":"Mercury exposure from domestic and imported estuarine and marine fish in the U.S. seafood market","volume":"115","author":"Sunderland","year":"2007","journal-title":"Environ. Health Perspect."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0435","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1029\/2006GB002876","article-title":"Human impacts on open ocean mercury concentrations","volume":"21","author":"Sunderland","year":"2007","journal-title":"Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0440","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1029\/2008GB003425","article-title":"Mercury sources, distribution, and bioavailability in the North Pacific Ocean: insights from data and models","volume":"23","author":"Sunderland","year":"2009","journal-title":"Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0445","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"27","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envres.2012.03.011","article-title":"Mercury sources and fate in the Gulf of Maine","volume":"119","author":"Sunderland","year":"2012","journal-title":"Environ. Res."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0450","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"241","DOI":"10.1080\/20016491089226","article-title":"Mercury in the aquatic environment: a review of factors affecting methylation","volume":"31","author":"Ullrich","year":"2001","journal-title":"Crit. Rev. Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0455","series-title":"Global Mercury Assessment 2018","author":"UNEP","year":"2019"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0460","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4142","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.4c12263","article-title":"Diminishing mercury bioaccumulation in zooplankton along an estuarine salinity gradient","volume":"59","author":"Vogl","year":"2025","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0465","article-title":"Climate-driven changes of global marine mercury cycles in 2100","volume":"120","author":"Wang","year":"2023","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0470","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envpol.2024.123573","article-title":"Non-mercury methylating microbial taxa are integral to understanding links between mercury methylation and elemental cycles in marine and freshwater sediments","volume":"346","author":"Wang","year":"2024","journal-title":"Environ. Pollut."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0475","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"24796","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.5c11448","article-title":"Global survey of mercury methylation and demethylation microbial communities in wastewater and activated sludge","volume":"59","author":"Wang","year":"2025","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0480","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5446","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.9b06075","article-title":"Biomagnification of methylmercury in a marine plankton ecosystem","volume":"54","author":"Wu","year":"2020","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0485","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"14994","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.3c02664","article-title":"Direct uptake and intracellular dissolution of HgS nanoparticles: evidence from a bacterial biosensor approach","volume":"57","author":"Xiang","year":"2023","journal-title":"Environ. Sci. Technol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0490","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1826","DOI":"10.1038\/s41396-018-0106-0","article-title":"Syntrophic pathways for microbial mercury methylation","volume":"12","author":"Yu","year":"2018","journal-title":"ISME J."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0495","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"473","DOI":"10.1038\/ngeo892","article-title":"Photolytic degradation of methylmercury enhanced by binding to natural organic ligands","volume":"3","author":"Zhang","year":"2010","journal-title":"Nat. Geosci."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0500","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1281","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1539-6924.2009.01268.x","article-title":"An exposure assessment of methyl mercury via fish consumption for the Japanese population","volume":"29","author":"Zhang","year":"2009","journal-title":"Risk Anal."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0505","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1251","DOI":"10.1002\/2014GB004939","article-title":"Six centuries of changing oceanic mercury","volume":"28","author":"Zhang","year":"2014","journal-title":"Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0510","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"854","DOI":"10.1002\/2015GB005124","article-title":"Biogeochemical drivers of the fate of riverine mercury discharged to the global and Arctic oceans","volume":"29","author":"Zhang","year":"2015","journal-title":"Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0515","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"526","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1516312113","article-title":"Observed decrease in atmospheric mercury explained by global decline in anthropogenic emissions","volume":"113","author":"Zhang","year":"2016","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0520","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1029\/2019GB006348","article-title":"A global model for methylmercury formation and uptake at the base of marine food webs","volume":"34","author":"Zhang","year":"2020","journal-title":"Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263_bb0525","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"279","DOI":"10.1016\/j.oneear.2021.01.005","article-title":"Impacts of climate change on methylmercury formation and bioaccumulation in the 21st century ocean","volume":"4","author":"Zhang","year":"2021","journal-title":"One Earth"}],"container-title":["Marine Pollution Bulletin"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S0025326X26010507?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S0025326X26010507?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,31]],"date-time":"2026-10-31T09:45:25Z","timestamp":1793439925000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0025326X26010507"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,12]]},"references-count":105,"alternative-id":["S0025326X26010507"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263","relation":{},"ISSN":["0025-326X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0025-326X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,12]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Elsevier","name":"publisher","label":"This article is maintained by"},{"value":"Cascading effects of climate change on the marine mercury cycle","name":"articletitle","label":"Article Title"},{"value":"Marine Pollution Bulletin","name":"journaltitle","label":"Journal Title"},{"value":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2026.120263","name":"articlelink","label":"CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version"},{"value":"article","name":"content_type","label":"Content Type"},{"value":"\u00a9 2026 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.","name":"copyright","label":"Copyright"}],"article-number":"120263"}}