RT Journal Article
T1 Contribution to understanding the influence of fires on the mercury cycle: systematic review, dynamic modelling and application to sustainable hypothetical scenarios
A1 Francisco López, Ahinara
A1 Heckenauer Barrón, Eric G.
A1 Bello Bugallo, Pastora María
K1 Forest fires
K1 Mercury cycle
K1 System dynamics
K1 Multimedia modelling
K1 Wildfires policies
K1 Environmental indicators
AB Mercury (Hg) mobilization and accumulation in the environment is directly related to forest fires. Biomass burning accounts for about 13% of the total contribution of Hg from natural sources. The aim of this work is to contribute to the knowledge of how wildfires modify mercury compounds behaviour and the effects it has in the Hg cycle, based on a systematic bibliographic review and analysis. Systems dynamics is an adequate focus to analyze the mobilization of Hg due to wildfires, which meets all the requirements to be studied by multimedia modelling. The development and application for the first time of a dynamic multimedia model of Hg taking into account specifically the influences of wildfires is one of the novelties of this work. Different scenarios show that an increase in the number of fires will consequently increase the mercury emitted into the atmosphere, modifying its natural cycle, producing a long-term modification of Hg compositions and concentrations in the different media. Hg movement caused by wildfires can cause complications in living beings and alter the ecosystems. This study found that the Hg soil content could as well be an indicator to measure the impact of fire on the environment. This model can also be generalized to conduct additional studies under comparable conditions, helping to understand the importance of forest fires in global Hg cycles
PB Springer
SN 0167-6369
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29178
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29178
LA eng
NO Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 194, 707 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10208-3
NO Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026