The Role of Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Nitrogen in the Distribution of Mercury in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea)

Nives Ogrinc¹, Milena Horvat¹, Stefano Covelli², Vesna Fajon¹ and Jadran Faganeli^3*

¹Department of Environmental Sciences, “J Stefan” Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

²Department of Geoscience, University of Trieste, Via E. Weiss 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy

³Marine Biological Station, National Institute of Biology, Fornace 41, 6330 Piran, Slovenia

^*Corresponding Author: Jadran Faganeli, Marine Biological Station, National Institute of Biology, Fornace 41, 6330 Piran, Slovenia