Influence of Ocean Deoxygenation on Demersal Fish Communities

Download or read book Influence of Ocean Deoxygenation on Demersal Fish Communities written by Natalya D. Gallo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As oceans warm due to anthropogenic climate change, the global ocean oxygen inventory decreases in a process known as ocean deoxygenation. Since oxygen is fundamental for aerobic life, ocean deoxygenation can impact marine organisms across multiple levels of biological organization. This research used the steep gradients in oxygen characteristic of upwelling margins with oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), as a natural experiment to study how hypoxia affects the composition, diversity, trophic structure and dynamics of demersal fish communities. Despite the severely hypoxic conditions ([O2]