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

Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology > 2018 > 38(1): 187-194. > DOI: 10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2018.01.019

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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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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Received Date: November 29, 2017
Revised Date: January 22, 2018

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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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