“Methylmercury poses especially high risks for humans and large predators because it bioaccumulates in body tissue as it moves up the food chain,” Gerson, who is a doctoral student in ecology at Duke University, said in a media statement. “That’s particularly concerning given the high biodiversity and the large number of indigenous populations that live in the Peruvian Amazon.”
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