Sentences with phrase «exhibit high mercury»

The scientists monitored skuas in Adélie Land and the Kerguelen Islands for ten years and showed that, when these seabirds exhibit high mercury levels in their blood, their breeding success decreases.

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The carriers of apo E4 allele, the ancestral «efficiency» allele, appear to exhibit higher harboring and decreased detoxification of trace heavy metals (iron, copper, lead, mercury).

Hence, atmospheric GEM concentrations inferred from Greenland firn air and global anthropogenic Hg emissions have exhibited consistently similar trends during the most recent decades (Fig. 2), suggesting that the atmospheric reservoir of mercury at mid - and high - northern latitudes has been driven mainly by anthropogenic emissions during the last decades.