Seabed biodiversity in oxygen minimum zones
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 20 April, 2010
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Some regions of the deep ocean floor support abundant populations of organisms, despite being overlain by water that contains very little oxygen, according to an international study. But global warming is likely to exacerbate oxygen depletion and thereby reduce biodiversity in these regions, they warn....