BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Marine Biogeochemistry
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1532999
The importance of fauna-mediated sediment O2 consumption in the NGOM hypoxic zone
Provisionally accepted
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States
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River-dominated coastal margins that experience hypoxia have important and dynamic biogeochemistry, particularly at the sediment-water interface where carbon respiration and remineralization affect both the water column above and the sediment layer below. The specific components and mechanisms of sediment oxygen consumption in such variable regions as hypoxic coastal margins remain poorly understood and are often disharmonious among studies. This study uses a novel combination of methods to reveal heretofore murky distinctions between factors of sediment oxygen consumption in seasonally hypoxic coastal margins.
Keywords: Gulf of Mexico, hypoxia, sediment, Oxygen, biogeochemistry, Benthic infauna
Received: 22 Nov 2024; Accepted: 25 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Kanchan Maiti, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States
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