oxygen minimum zones (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

oxygen minimum zones

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Map with an overview of the oxygen minimum zones. The largest are located offshore Middle and South America, but oxygen depleted areas can also be found in the Baltic Sea. The red box marks the oxygen minimum zone off Peru where samples were collected for this study.

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/S. Ahmerkamp

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