Accepted Manuscript This is an Accepted Manuscript of the following article: Marianne Olsen, Morten Thorne Schaanning, Hans Fredrik Veiteberg Braaten, Espen Eek, Frithjof E. Moy, Espen Lydersen. The influence of permanently submerged macrophytes on sediment mercury distribution, mobility and methylation potential in a brackish Norwegian fjord. Science of The Total Environment. Volumes 610–611, 2018, pages 1364-1374, ISSN 0048-9697. The article has been published in final form by Elsevier at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.136 © 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ It is recommended to use the published version for citation.