Sentences with phrase «cause oxygen depletion»

Some food dispensed in aquaculture operations — especially open water cages — is inevitably not consumed and together with faeces the nutrients released into the surrounding water can cause oxygen depletion and potentially lead to algal blooms.

The initiated deglaciation charges the Arctic Basin with organic matter (enhanced marine productivity) and causes at least surface stratification, which will likely slow ocean currents and causes oxygen depletion.

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After several years of discussions, researchers from Aarhus University (Denmark), Lund University (Sweden) and Stockholm University (Sweden) have determined that nutrients from the land are the main cause of widespread areas of oxygen depletion.

On the basis of this analysis, we can determine that the many nutrients from the land are the main cause of the widespread oxygen depletion,» says Professor Jacob Carstensen, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University.

Nitrogen - rich fertiliser runoff is the primary cause of oxygen depletion in oceans, lakes and rivers, leading to aquatic «dead zones.»

Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, the Illinois - Indiana Sea Grant and partners recently found that dead zones caused by hypoxia, the depletion of oxygen in water, are unexpectedly variable in Lake Erie, sometimes disappearing and reemerging elsewhere in the matter of hours.

Although oxygen depletion occurs naturally in some parts of the ocean, such as fjords and deep basins, the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone is caused by humans.

Further warming will likely cause the disappearance of Arctic summer sea ice, further oxygen depletion and the release of Earth - warming methane trapped in the Arctic seabed.

The depletion of already low dissolved oxygen levels causes the volume of the OMZs to grow, disrupting primary producers in this and surrounding ecosystems.