Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans

By L. Stramma, Gregory C. Johnson, J. Sprintall, V. Mohrholz. Science, 2008

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• Deep, diverse and definitely different: unique attributes of the world's largest ecosystem (2010, background): “Studies initiated in the early 1960s showed that OMZs support extensive autotrophic bacterial mats despite intense oxygen depletion (Gallardo, 1963, 1977; Fossing et al., 1995; Gallardo and Espinoza, 2007).”
• Occurrence of benthic microbial nitrogen fixation coupled to sulfate reduction in the seasonally hypoxic Eckernförde Bay, Baltic Sea (2012, background): “Due to global warming induced changes in the marine environments, as well as human alterations of coastal ecosystems, these oxygen minimum zones and hypoxic regions are expanding and are predicted to continue to do so for the near future (Stramma et al., 2008; Middelburg and Levin, 2009).”
• Evidence of active dinitrogen fixation in surface waters of the eastern tropical South Pacific during El Niño and La Niña events and evaluation of its potential nutrient controls (2013, background): “…scenario about the increase of the frequency of El Niño events [Timmermann et al., 1999] and the expansion of low oxygenated waters in the Pacific ocean [Keeling and Garcia, 2002; Stramma et al., 2008] may modify the N cycle in the ETSP to the benefit of N2 fixation [Großkopf and LaRoche, 2012].”
• Ocean scale hypoxia‐based habitat compression of Atlantic istiophorid billfishes (2010, background): “Furthermore, the resulting index of relative abundance would be even more inaccurate to the stock assessment result if the OMZs were to expand and shoal closer to the surface over time (Stramma et al., 2008).”
• Zooplankton and the Ocean Carbon Cycle. (2017, background): “Other processes attributed to strong vertical gradients in biological communities across OMZs could enhance carbon export relative to non-OMZ regions.”
• Production of oceanic nitrous oxide by ammonia-oxidizing archaea (2012, neutral): “The predicted expansion of OMZs in the future in many parts of the ocean (Stramma et al., 2008) may lead to an enhanced N2O produc5 tion in the ocean and therefore may have severe consequences for the budget of N2O in the atmosphere as well.”
• Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea (2011, background): “For OMZs, climate change is the most important factor affecting this habitat at present, because of the significant increase in hypoxia.”
• Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters (2018, background): “Oxygen has been decreasing in the open ocean and coastal waters since at least the middle of the 20 century (1, 2, 3).”
• Ocean deoxygenation in a warming world. (2010, background): “= 26.8 to 27.4 1960–2002 AOU Density −11 to −29 Nakanowatari et al. (2007) Oyashio domain 39–44N 142–149E σ!”
• Integrating climate-related stressor effects on marine organisms: unifying principles linking molecule to ecosystem-level changes (2012, background): “In the open ocean, temperature changes develop together with progressive hypoxia caused by enhanced strati - fication and oxygen demand of warming oceans (Stramma et al. 2008).”
• Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone (2009, background): “The OMZs are expanding in global oceans (28), and more ocean volumes are becoming subjected to nitrogen loss.”
• Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research (2013, background): “…et al. (2008) used mesocosms to show how increases in CO2 in the ocean’s surface waters could increase carbon export from the euphotic layers towards the ocean’s interior, which could elevate respiration rates further or even lead to negative feedbacks further offshore (Stramma et al., 2008).”
• Deoxygenation of the Baltic Sea during the last century (2014, background): “Discussion Climate warming plays an important role in increasing ocean deoxygenation (1), but for the Baltic Sea we show that anthropogenic nutrient discharges are the primary driving factor creating widespread hypoxic conditions.”
• Contemporary fisheries stock assessment: many issues still remain (2015, background): “In addition, other factors not accounted for in the index (e.g. temporal variability in the environment, expansion of the oxygen minimum layer; Stramma et al., 2008) may cause catchability to vary over time introducing further error into the index.”