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Climate mediates hypoxic stress on fish diversity and nursery function at the land-sea interface
Description: In this study, scientists investigated how coastal hypoxia influences fish diversity, the nursery habitat for juvenile fish, and fisheries production in adjacent offshore waters. They found that severity in hypoxia corresponded with declines to fish diversity, nursery quality, and offshore fisheries. Furthermore, intensification of El Niño mediated hypoxia by improving dissolved oxygen conditions, demonstrating that climate can influence anthropogenic stressors affecting coastal ecosystem services. [Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1505815112
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Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Publish Date: 6/30/2015
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