@article{3df71a4e475342a4b3309dd1c9560858,
title = "Ocean deoxygenation and zooplankton: Very small oxygen differences matter",
abstract = "Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), large midwater regions of very low oxygen, are expected to expand as a result of climate change. While oxygen is known to be important in structuring midwater ecosystems, a precise and mechanistic understanding of the effects of oxygen on zooplankton is lacking. Zooplankton are important components of midwater food webs and biogeochemical cycles. Here, we show that, in the eastern tropical North Pacific OMZ, previously undescribed submesoscale oxygen variability has a direct effect on the distribution of many major zooplankton groups. Despite extraordinary hypoxia tolerance, many zooplankton live near their physiological limits and respond to slight (≤1%) changes in oxygen. Ocean oxygen loss (deoxygenation) may, thus, elicit major unanticipated changes to midwater ecosystem structure and function.",
author = "Wishner, {K. F.} and Seibel, {B. A.} and C. Roman and C. Deutsch and D. Outram and Shaw, {C. T.} and Birk, {M. A.} and Mislan, {K. A.S.} and Adams, {T. J.} and D. Moore and S. Riley",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the captain and crew of the R/V Sikuliaq (University of Alaska) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography for additional technical services. Thanks also to D. Ullman and D. Casagrande for Wire Flyer assistance; C. Matson and J. Calderwood for MOCNESS upgrades; S. Gordon (professional photographer, Open Boat Films LLC) for the photographs and movies; and A. Dymowska, J. Ivory, Y. Jin, J. McGreal, and N. Redmond for help at sea. Funding was provided by the NSF grants OCE1459243 (to K.F.W., C.R., and B.A.S.), OCE1458967 (to C.D.), DGE1244657 (to M.A.B.), and OCE1460819 (URI REU SURFO program to S.R.) plus funding from our respective institutions. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2018, The Authors, some rights reserved;",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1126/sciadv.aau5180",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "4",
journal = "Science Advances",
issn = "2375-2548",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "12",
}