System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion

GC Pitcher, A Aguirre-Velarde, D Breitburg… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The epoch of the Anthropocene, a period during which human activity has been the
dominant influence on climate and the environment, has witnessed a decline in oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] The past to unravel the future: Deoxygenation events in the geological archive and the anthropocene oxygen crisis

AM Mancini, F Lozar, R Gennari, R Capozzi… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the observation that we are witnessing a true oxygen crisis, the ocean
deoxygenation theme is getting less attention from the media and population compared to …

Denitrification in foraminifera has an ancient origin and is complemented by associated bacteria

C Woehle, AS Roy, N Glock, J Michels… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Benthic foraminifera are unicellular eukaryotes that inhabit sediments of aquatic
environments. Several foraminifera of the order Rotaliida are known to store and use nitrate …

Metabolic preference of nitrate over oxygen as an electron acceptor in foraminifera from the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

N Glock, AS Roy, D Romero, T Wein… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Benthic foraminifera populate a diverse range of marine habitats. Their ability to use
alternative electron acceptors—nitrate (NO3−) or oxygen (O2)—makes them important …

Giant sulfur bacteria (Beggiatoaceae) from sediments underlying the Benguela upwelling system host diverse microbiomes

BE Flood, DC Louw, AK Van der Plas, JV Bailey - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Due to their lithotrophic metabolisms, morphological complexity and conspicuous
appearance, members of the Beggiatoaceae have been extensively studied for more than …

Bottom-water deoxygenation at the Peruvian margin during the last deglaciation recorded by benthic foraminifera

Z Erdem, J Schönfeld, AE Rathburn, ME Pérez… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Deciphering the dynamics of dissolved oxygen in the mid-depth ocean during the last
deglaciation is essential to understand the influence of climate change on modern oxygen …

Widespread occurrence and relevance of phosphate storage in foraminifera

N Glock, J Richirt, C Woehle, C Algar, M Armstrong… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Foraminifera are ubiquitous marine protists that intracellularly accumulate phosphate, an
important macronutrient in marine ecosystems and in fertilizer potentially leaked into the …

Multidecadal changes in marine subsurface oxygenation off central Peru during the last ca. 170 years

J Cardich, A Sifeddine, R Salvatteci… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Subsurface water masses with permanent oxygen deficiency (oxygen minimum zones, OMZ)
are typically associated with upwelling regions and exhibit a high sensitivity to climate …

Ecological and environmental stability in offshore Southern California Marine Basins through the Holocene

HM Palmer, TM Hill, EG Kennedy… - Paleoceanography …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the face of ongoing marine deoxygenation, understanding timescales and drivers of past
oxygenation change is of critical importance. Marine sediment cores from tiered silled basins …

Eubuliminella tenuata as a new proxy for quantifying past bottom water oxygenation

M Tetard, E Ovsepyan, L Licari - Marine Micropaleontology, 2021 - Elsevier
In response to modern global warming and climate emergency, large oxygen-depleted
oceanic areas, known as Oxygen Minimum Zones (OMZs) have been expanding for the past …