Publication Date:
2011-12-21
Description:
Expansion of oxygen minimum zones may reduce available habitat for tropical pelagic fishes Nature Climate Change 2, 33 04122011 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1304 Lothar Stramma Eric D. Prince Sunke Schmidtko Jiangang Luo John P. Hoolihan Martin Visbeck Douglas W. R. Wallace Peter Brandt Arne Körtzinger One of the impacts of ocean warming is a decrease in dissolved oxygen, with implications for valuable pelagic fish species. A study shows that the oxygenated upper ocean layer in the tropical northeast Atlantic thinned at a rate of around one metre per year between 1960 and 2010, and, by tracking individually tagged fish, demonstrates that this contraction in the oxygenated layer limited the movement of blue marlin.
Print ISSN:
1758-678X
Electronic ISSN:
1758-6798
Topics:
Geosciences
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