Sentences with phrase «of oxygen depletion»

The ocean will have oxygen holes (large areas of oxygen depletion).

The influence of climate change was evident in areas with either extreme incidents of oxygen depletion or longer - than - normal trends of low oxygen levels.

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

Measurements of oxygen depletion weeks after the spill detected as much as a 30 percent drop in the Gulf of Mexico seawater.

«What we're saying here is that animals that migrate during the day are a big source of oxygen depletion.

«What complicates this story is that if these animals are responsible for a chunk of oxygen depletion in general, then a change in their habits might have a feedback in terms of oxygen levels in other parts of the deeper ocean.»

«Microbes eat [hydrocarbons] like we eat at a buffet: they like some compounds better than others,» explained marine chemist Chris Reddy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during an August 19 press conference announcing the existence of such oil plumes — though their findings also published in Science suggested microbes were consuming the plume slowly in late June due to low levels of oxygen depletion.

More importantly, he added, the study provides a foundation for monitoring and projecting how changing climate conditions may raise the chances of oxygen depletion, or hypoxia, in the future.

Two recently published studies detail the cycle of oxygen depletion in the lake's bottom waters, and the ecological impacts from bacteria to fish.

Terrestrial predators can modulate the energy used for prey capture to maximize efficiency, but diving animals face the conflicting metabolic demands of energy intake and the minimization of oxygen depletion during a breath hold.

Although the graphs are in Danish, you can see that the bakery is the largest contributor to smog, while the farming process is the largest contributor to the category of oxygen depletion.

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.

During the last century, the areas of oxygen depletion have increased drastically from approximately 5,000 km2 in around 1900 to the present day, where they extend to 60,000 km2 — or about one and a half times the total area of Denmark.