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dc.contributor.authorZhang, J.
dc.contributor.authorCowie, G.
dc.contributor.authorNaqvi, S.W.A.
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-01T09:55:06Z
dc.date.available2013-04-01T09:55:06Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationEnvironmental Research Letters, vol.8(1); 2013; 015025; 3pp.
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/4267
dc.description.abstractThe predicted future of the global marine environment, as a combined result of forcing due to climate change (e.g. warming and acidification) and other anthropogenic perturbation (e.g. eutrophication), presents a challenge to the sustainability of ecosystems from tropics to high latitudes. Among the various associated phenomena of ecosystem deterioration, hypoxia can cause serious problems in coastal areas as well as oxygen minimum zones in the open ocean. The negative impacts of hypoxia include changes in populations of marine organisms, such as large-scale mortality and behavioral responses, as well as variations of species distributions, biodiversity, physiological stress, and other sub-lethal effects (e.g. growth and reproduction). Social and economic activities that are related to services provided by the marine ecosystems, such as tourism and fisheries, can be negatively affected by the aesthetic outcomes as well as perceived or real impacts on seafood quality (STAP 2011 (Washington, DC: Global Environment Facility) p 88). Moreover, low oxygen concentration in marine waters can have considerable feedbacks to other compartments of the Earth system, like the emission of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and can affect the global biogeochemical cycles of nutrients and trace elements. It is of critical importance to prediction and adaptation strategies that the key processes of hypoxia in marine environments be precisely determined and understood.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIOP Publishing
dc.rightsCC Attribution 3.0 License (CC BY 3.0)
dc.subjecthypoxia
dc.subjectclimatic changes
dc.subjectanthropogenic factors
dc.titleHypoxia in the changing marine environment
dc.typeJournal Article


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