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Oxygen and climate dynamics

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Low oxygen levels in tropical oceans shape marine ecosystems and biogeochemistry, and climate change is expected to expand these regions. Now a study indicates that regional dynamics control tropical oxygen trends, bucking projected global reductions in ocean oxygen.

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Figure 1: A three-dimensional visualization of the Pacific oxygen minimum zone (OMZ).

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  1. Scott C. Doney is in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA,

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  2. Kristopher B. Karnauskas is in the Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA,

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