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Oxygen-starved ocean 'deserts' emerging
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by wise-monty | May 2, 2008 at 06:19 am
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at 06:54 on May 2nd, 2008
What's interesting is the contrasting views in the three articles associated with this article. I wonder if the huge garbage patches floating in the oceans have anything to do with this oxygen problem. wise-monty, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:17 on May 2nd, 2008
Thank you for posting this.
at 09:01 on May 2nd, 2008
The original article isn't quite accurate in it's portrayal of these so-called deserts - there are actually many organisms living in these regions, but they aren't fish, krill, etc. (i.e. things most people identify ocean organisms as being). However, a whole consortium of bacteria inhabit so these waters - bacteria specifically adapted to use chemicals either than oxygen to carry out their metabolic needs - munching away on the sinking blooms of phytoplankton that previosuly grew in the sunlit surface waters above.
at 10:43 on May 2nd, 2008
wise-monty, I like this story. It's good stuff.