Oxygen depletion: A new form of ocean habitat loss
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 14:14
in Earth & Climate
An international team of physical oceanographers including a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the areas in which predatory fishes and other marine organisms can live or enter in search of food.