Sentences with phrase «coastal zones worldwide»

The team's findings provide one possible mechanism for an observed increase in the concentration of dissolved organic carbon in the surface waters of North America and Europe during the last few decades, and have implications for management of water quality in coastal zones worldwide.

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The researchers undertook the study in light of concerns about decreasing levels of oxygen in coastal waters worldwide, and how the growing prevalence of low - oxygen «dead zones» might affect populations and management of blue crabs and other coastal marine life.

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.

«Given how widespread low - oxygen zones are in coastal waters worldwide, understanding these processes will allow us to predict the acidification of estuaries under expected increases in carbon dioxide and ongoing mitigation of nutrient inputs by management actions,» said Jeremy Testa, assistant professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

Areas of the coastal ocean where oxygen is low or absent in bottom waters, so - called dead zones, are expanding worldwide (Diaz and Rosenberg, 2008).