Sentences with phrase «ocean productivity due»

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Both processes occur in regions of the ocean that are naturally low in oxygen, or anoxic, due to local lack of water circulation and intense phytoplankton productivity overlying these regions.

Fertilizing the surface ocean with iron increases biological productivity, but the resulting carbon dioxide removal will be much less than expected due to the increased productivity of diatoms, which incorporate and remove the bioavailable iron.

There is another important angle to the ocean productivity issue that you might consider — there is a very real danger that the satellites that provide climate - research quality observations of this kind will not be available in the near future due to limited budgets and other priorities.

How would you improve the productivity of coccolithophores — especially as an acidifying ocean (due to anthropogenic CO2 emisssions) in hibits their growth?