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List of works by Josh T. Ackerman

A NONLETHAL MICROSAMPLING TECHNIQUE TO MONITOR THE EFFECTS OF MERCURY ON WILD BIRD EGGS

scientific article published on 20 October 2008

A National-Scale Assessment of Mercury Bioaccumulation in United States National Parks Using Dragonfly Larvae As Biosentinels through a Citizen-Science Framework

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

A critical evaluation of the utility of eggshells for estimating mercury concentrations in avian eggs

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Agricultural wetlands as potential hotspots for mercury bioaccumulation: experimental evidence using caged fish.

scientific article published in February 2010

Assessing potential health risks to fish and humans using mercury concentrations in inland fish from across western Canada and the United States.

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Avian mercury exposure and toxicological risk across western North America: A synthesis

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Bird Mercury Concentrations Change Rapidly as Chicks Age: Toxicological Risk is Highest at Hatching and Fledging

scientific article published on May 18, 2011

California gull chicks raised near colony edges have elevated stress levels.

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Demethylation of Methylmercury in Bird, Fish, and Earthworm

scientific article published in 2021

Density-dependent nest predation in waterfowl: the relative importance of nest density versus nest dispersion

scientific article published on December 18, 2011

Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Effects of Age, Colony, and Sex on Mercury Concentrations in California Sea Lions.

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Egg-laying sequence influences egg mercury concentrations and egg size in three bird species: Implications for contaminant monitoring programs.

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

Estimating Mercury Exposure of Piscivorous Birds and Sport Fish Using Prey Fish Monitoring.

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

Evaluating Hair as a Predictor of Blood Mercury: The Influence of Ontogenetic Phase and Life History in Pinnipeds.

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Experimental dosing of wetlands with coagulants removes mercury from surface water and decreases mercury bioaccumulation in fish

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Hg concentrations in fish from coastal waters of California and Western North America

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Landscape factors and hydrology influence mercury concentrations in wading birds breeding in the Florida Everglades, USA.

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

Marine foraging ecology influences mercury bioaccumulation in deep-diving northern elephant seals.

scientific article published in July 2015

Maternal transfer of contaminants in birds: Mercury and selenium concentrations in parents and their eggs

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Maternal transfer of mercury to songbird eggs.

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Mercury Exposure and Altered Parental Nesting Behavior in a Wild Songbird

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Mercury bioaccumulation in estuarine wetland fishes: evaluating habitats and risk to coastal wildlife.

scientific article published on 12 July 2014

Mercury correlations among blood, muscle, and hair of northern elephant seals during the breeding and molting fasts.

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Mercury cycling in agricultural and managed wetlands of California, USA: seasonal influences of vegetation on mercury methylation, storage, and transport

scientific article published in July 2013

Mercury demethylation in waterbird livers: dose-response thresholds and differences among species.

scientific article published on 20 October 2008

Mercury exposure may influence fluctuating asymmetry in waterbirds.

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Mercury exposure may suppress baseline corticosterone levels in juvenile birds.

scientific article published on 21 May 2012

Mercury in western North America: A synthesis of environmental contamination, fluxes, bioaccumulation, and risk to fish and wildlife.

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Mercury risk to avian piscivores across western United States and Canada

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Methylmercury is the predominant form of mercury in bird eggs: a synthesis.

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

Organochlorine and PBDE concentrations in relation to cytochrome P450 activity in livers of Forster's terns (Sterna forsteri) and Caspian terns (Hydroprogne caspia), in San Francisco Bay, California.

scientific article published on 4 August 2009

Oxidative stress response of Forster's terns (Sterna forsteri) and Caspian terns (Hydroprogne caspia) to mercury and selenium bioaccumulation in liver, kidney, and brain.

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Physiological condition of juvenile wading birds in relation to multiple landscape stressors in the Florida Everglades: effects of hydrology, prey availability, and mercury bioaccumulation.

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Prediction of fish and sediment mercury in streams using landscape variables and historical mining

scientific article published on 2 July 2016

Rapid changes in small fish mercury concentrations in estuarine wetlands: implications for wildlife risk and monitoring programs.

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Reservoirs and water management influence fish mercury concentrations in the western United States and Canada

scientific article published on 30 March 2016

Season, molt, and body size influence mercury concentrations in grebes.

scientific article published on 31 May 2017

Selenium bioaccumulation and body condition in shorebirds and terns breeding in San Francisco Bay, California, USA.

scientific article published in October 2009

South San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project—A synthesis of Phase-1 mercury studies

Spatial and temporal patterns of mercury concentrations in freshwater fish across the Western United States and Canada

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Surveillance for highly pathogenic influenza A viruses in California during 2014-2015 provides insights into viral evolutionary pathways and the spatiotemporal extent of viruses in the Pacific Americas Flyway

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Synthesis of Maternal Transfer of Mercury in Birds: Implications for Altered Toxicity Risk

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Temporal variation in fish mercury concentrations within lakes from the western Aleutian Archipelago, Alaska

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Vocal activity as a low cost and scalable index of seabird colony size.

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Waterfowl recently infected with low pathogenic avian influenza exhibit reduced local movement and delayed migration

scientific article published in 2023

Wintering in the Western Subarctic Pacific Increases Mercury Contamination of Red-Legged Kittiwakes

scientific article published on 06 November 2019