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SCIENCE
卷 320, 期 5876, 页码 655-658出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153847
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Oxygen-poor waters occupy large volumes of the intermediate- depth eastern tropical oceans. Oxygen- poor conditions have far- reaching impacts on ecosystems because important mobile macroorganisms avoid or cannot survive in hypoxic zones. Climate models predict declines in oceanic dissolved oxygen produced by global warming. We constructed 50- year time series of dissolved- oxygen concentration for select tropical oceanic regions by augmenting a historical database with recent measurements. These time series reveal vertical expansion of the intermediate- depth low- oxygen zones in the eastern tropical Atlantic and the equatorial Pacific during the past 50 years. The oxygen decrease in the 300- to 700- m layer is 0.09 to 0.34 micromoles per kilogram per year. Reduced oxygen levels may have dramatic consequences for ecosystems and coastal economies.
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