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Pacific Coast Dead Zones
Climate change affects coastal currents that moderate ocean temperatures and the productivity of ecosystems. As such, it is believed to be a factor in the low-oxygen “dead zone” that has appeared along the coast of Washington and Oregon in recent years.1 In the maps above, blue indicates low-oxygen areas and purple shows areas that are the most severely oxygen depleted. Image References: PISCO; NOAA-NWFSC; OSU/COAS2
References
- 1. [561] Chan, F., J. A. Barth, J. Lubchenco, A. Kirincich, H. Weeks, W. T. Peterson, and B. A. Menge. "Emergence of Anoxia in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem." Science 319, no. 5865 (2008): 920.
- 2. [562] various. footnote 562., 2009.
Summary
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