Physiological and ecological implications of ocean deoxygenation for vision in marine organisms

• Published in: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences Vol. 375; no. 2102; p. 20160322
• Main Authors: McCormick, Lillian R., Levin, Lisa A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England The Royal Society Publishing 13.09.2017
• Subjects: Animals; Aquatic Organisms - physiology; Arthropods; Behavior, Animal - physiology; Cephalopods; Climate Change; Concentration gradient; Deoxygenation; Ecosystem; Eutrophication; Eye; Habitat Compression; Hypoxia; Marine animals; Marine ecology; Ocean; Oceans and Seas; Ontogeny; Organisms; Oxygen - metabolism; Oxygen demand; Oxygenation; Physiological effects; Physiology; Review; Seawater - chemistry; Temperature; Ventilation; Vision; Vision, Ocular - physiology; Visual observation; deoxygenation; eye; habitat compression; hypoxia; vision; ocean

Climate change has induced ocean deoxygenation and exacerbated eutrophication-driven hypoxia in recent decades, affecting the physiology, behaviour and ecology of marine organisms. The high oxygen demand of visual tissues and the known inhibitory effects of hypoxia on human vision raise the question...