Supporting Dataset for “Methylmercury in Lake Bed Soils During Re-flooding of an Appalachian Reservoir in the Northeastern USA”

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Eklöf K*, P Drohan, J Needoba, S Landfield, TD Peterson, H Hu, L Iavorivska, and EW Boyer (2021). Methylmercury in lakebed soils during re-flooding of an Appalachian reservoir in the northeastern USA. Environmental Research Communications, DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ac1d83

We studied soil MeHg concentrations during the re-flooding of a lake bed in the northern Appalachian mountain region of the Northeastern US that had been drained for approximately 7 years. The formation of bioavailable methyl-mercury (MeHg) can increase when oxidized soils become reduced after flooding. Supplemental data presented here include information about the lakebed study site and sampling locations -- as well as the soil characteristics, soil mercury concentrations, and soil genomic DNA extraction data.