Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3975-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3975-2018
Research article
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05 Jul 2018
Research article |  | 05 Jul 2018

A 1500-year multiproxy record of coastal hypoxia from the northern Baltic Sea indicates unprecedented deoxygenation over the 20th century

Sami A. Jokinen, Joonas J. Virtasalo, Tom Jilbert, Jérôme Kaiser, Olaf Dellwig, Helge W. Arz, Jari Hänninen, Laura Arppe, Miia Collander, and Timo Saarinen

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (10 Apr 2018) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 May 2018) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi
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ED: Publish as is (06 Jun 2018) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi
AR by Sami Jokinen on behalf of the Authors (13 Jun 2018)
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Oxygen deficiency is a major environmental problem deteriorating seafloor habitats especially in the coastal ocean with large human impact. Here we apply a wide set of chemical and physical analyses to a 1500-year long sediment record and show that, although long-term climate variability has modulated seafloor oxygenation in the coastal northern Baltic Sea, the oxygen loss over the 20th century is unprecedentedly severe, emphasizing the need to reduce anthropogenic nutrient input in the future.
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