Sentences with phrase «create hypoxic zones»
Their consumption of oxygen could create hypoxic zones and have «a serious influence on biodiversity at those times as well,»
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By 2017, excessive nitrogen from agriculture had created a hypoxic zone in the Gulf extending 22,729 square kilometers (8775.7 square miles)-- an area larger than the state of New Jersey.
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When these organisms die and decay, they deplete oxygen levels, creating «dead zones» of hypoxic, or oxygen poor, water.