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Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters
Breitburg, D.L.; Levin, L.A.; Oschlies, A.; Grégoire, M.; Chavez, F.P.; Conley, D.J.; Garçon, V.; Gilbert, D.; Gutiérrez, D.; Isensee, K.; Jacinto, G.S.; Limburg, K.E.; Montes, I.; Naqvi, S.W.A.; Pitcher, G.; Rabalais, N.N.; Roman, M.R.; Rose, K.A.; Seibel, B.A.; Telszewski, M.; Yasuhara, M.; Zhang, J. (2018). Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters. Science (Wash.) 359(6371): [1-11]. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aam7240
In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York, N.Y. ISSN 0036-8075; e-ISSN 1095-9203, more
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    Marine/Coastal

Authors  Top 
  • Breitburg, D.L.
  • Levin, L.A.
  • Oschlies, A.
  • Grégoire, M., more
  • Chavez, F.P.
  • Conley, D.J.
  • Garçon, V.
  • Gilbert, D.
  • Gutiérrez, D.
  • Isensee, K.
  • Jacinto, G.S.
  • Limburg, K.E.
  • Montes, I.
  • Naqvi, S.W.A.
  • Pitcher, G.
  • Rabalais, N.N.
  • Roman, M.R.
  • Rose, K.A.
  • Seibel, B.A.
  • Telszewski, M.
  • Yasuhara, M.
  • Zhang, J.

Abstract
    Oxygen is fundamental to life. Not only is it essential for the survival of individual animals, but it regulates global cycles of major nutrients and carbon. The oxygen content of the open ocean and coastal waters has been declining for at least the past half-century, largely because of human activities that have increased global temperatures and nutrients discharged to coastal waters. These changes have accelerated consumption of oxygen by microbial respiration, reduced solubility of oxygen in water, and reduced the rate of oxygen resupply from the atmosphere to the ocean interior, with a wide range of biological and ecological consequences. Further research is needed to understand and predict long-term, global- and regional-scale oxygen changes and their effects on marine and estuarine fisheries and ecosystems.

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