Fleeting dead zones can muck with seafloor life for decades

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Fleeting dead zones can muck with seafloor life for decades
By
Thomas Sumner
3:06pm, February 10, 2017
 

Short bouts of suffocating conditions can desolate swaths of seafloor for decades, new research suggests. That devastation could spread in the future, as rising temperatures and agricultural runoff enlarge oxygen-poor dead zones in the world’s oceans.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fleeting-dead-zones-can-muck-seafloor-life-decades?mode=topic&context=60