Figure 1
From: Marine fog inputs appear to increase methylmercury bioaccumulation in a coastal terrestrial food web
Geographical distributions in the Santa Cruz Mountain coastal region, California, USA, and mean (±1 SE) values by coastal sub-region of (A) MMHg concentrations in lace lichen (Ramalina menziesii) (site names correspond to data in Table S1), (B) THg in adult deer fur, and (C) THg in adult puma fur and fur-normalized whisker samples. The blue line represents the watershed boundary which was used to delineate samples as belonging to either the ocean facing (to the left of the line) or bay facing (to the right of the line) sub-regions. Asterisks indicate the p-value from one-way ANOVA test on the log-transformed concentrations, shown by the extent of the horizontal lines (**p = 0.001–0.01, ***p = <0.001). Sampling for lichen, deer and puma was done in 2017, 2008–2012, and 2006–2014, respectively.
