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Hg occurs naturally everywhere in the countryside, in addition man has spread considerable amounts on agricultural land as fungicide. A further source is the airborne Hg. As opposed to agricultural areas, Hg in forest land has its origin only in natural sources and in air pollution. However, forest soils (9) exhibit in their upper strata approximately ten times higher concentrations than agricultural soils (Fig. 1). The plants also, for example spruce (1), are clearly contaminated with Hg (Tab. 1).

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Bombosch, S. (1983). Mercury - Accumulation in Game. In: Ulrich, B., Pankrath, J. (eds) Effects of Accumulation of Air Pollutants in Forest Ecosystems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6983-4_21

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