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  2. Dead zone (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    Temporary dead zones are short lived dead zones lasting hours or days. Seasonal dead zones are annually occurring, typically in warm months of summer and autumn. Diel cycling hypoxia is a specific seasonal dead zone that only becomes hypoxic during the night

  3. Dead zone - Wikipedia

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    Dead zone (cell phone), an area where cell phones cannot transmit to a nearby cell site; Dead zone (ecology), low-oxygen areas in the world's oceans; Dead band, the region of insensitivity of a system

  4. Ecoregion - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Amazon rainforest ecoregions. The yellow line encloses the ecoregions per the World Wide Fund for Nature. A map of the bioregions of Canada and the US. An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.

  5. Dead zones recorded in Atlantic Ocean for first time - AOL

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    The Atlantic Ocean is teeming with life, but for the first time researchers have discovered dead zones in these waters - areas low in both oxygen and salinity - off the coast of Africa. Fish can't ...

  6. 'Sharks of the Dead Zone' host devoted to biodiversity in ...

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    “Sharks of the Dead Zone,” which premieres at 9 p.m. Friday as part of Discovery’s Shark Week, sounds a bit frightening.And it is, if you care about the health of our planet. The host of the ...

  7. Ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    Ecosystem classifications are specific kinds of ecological classifications that consider all four elements of the definition of ecosystems: a biotic component, an abiotic complex, the interactions between and within them, and the physical space they occupy. Biotic factors of the ecosystem are living things; such as plants, animals, and bacteria ...

  8. Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' has grown larger than Connecticut

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    Scientists prepare to collect near-bottom water aboard the R/V Pelican to verify oxygen measurements used to determine the size of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone. (NOAA/LUMCON/LSU) A "dead zone ...

  9. Marine coastal ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    A marine coastal ecosystem is a marine ecosystem which occurs where the land meets the ocean. Worldwide there is about 620,000 kilometres (390,000 mi) of coastline. Coastal habitats extend to the margins of the continental shelves, occupying about 7 percent of the ocean surface area.