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SUBMITTER: Wishner KF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6300398 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wishner K F KF Seibel B A BA Roman C C Deutsch C C Outram D D Shaw C T CT Birk M A MA Mislan K A S KAS Adams T J TJ Moore D D Riley S S
Science advances 20181219 12
Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), large midwater regions of very low oxygen, are expected to expand as a result of climate change. While oxygen is known to be important in structuring midwater ecosystems, a precise and mechanistic understanding of the effects of oxygen on zooplankton is lacking. Zooplankton are important components of midwater food webs and biogeochemical cycles. Here, we show that, in the eastern tropical North Pacific OMZ, previously undescribed submesoscale oxygen variability has ...[more]