The origin and process of hypoxia in the Yangtze River Estuary

LIU Ben; ZHANG Xiaoyu; ZENG Jiangning; DU Wen

doi:10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2018.01.019

2018 Vol. 38, No. 1

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LIU Ben, ZHANG Xiaoyu, ZENG Jiangning, DU Wen. The origin and process of hypoxia in the Yangtze River Estuary[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2018, 38(1): 187-194. doi: 10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2018.01.019

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LIU Ben, ZHANG Xiaoyu, ZENG Jiangning, DU Wen. The origin and process of hypoxia in the Yangtze River Estuary[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2018, 38(1): 187-194. doi: 10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2018.01.019

The origin and process of hypoxia in the Yangtze River Estuary

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School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem and Biogeochemistry, The Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China
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Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China

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Corresponding author: ZHANG Xiaoyu, zhang_xiaoyu@zju.edu.cn

Received Date: 30 November 2017

Revised Date: 23 January 2018

Publish Date: 28 February 2018

Abstract

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The Yangtze Estuary is one of the most typical hypoxic regions in the world. The aggravation and expansion of the hypoxia are obvious in the past few years. This paper aims to synthetically analyze the origin of the hypoxia, its biogeochemical processes and its hazardous influence on the local ecological system. By comparing with other hypoxic areas in the world, the hypoxia of the Yangtze Estuary is found rather different geographically and oceanographically from those in the Gulf of Mexico, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and Tokyo Bay. The study of the case would greatly help the deeper research of marine ecology in this area. By briefly combining geochemistry, ecology, oceanography and other subjects, the necessity of developing hypoxia ecology is proposed by the authors to fill the blank in this field.
- the hypoxia zone of the Yangtze Estuary /
- eutrophication /
- stratification /
- hypoxia ecology

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