Coastal Dead Zones May Benefit Some Species, Scientist Finds

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 13:35 in Earth & Climate

A Brown ecologist has found that coastal "dead zones" may not be so dead after all. In a paper published this month in the journal Ecology, Andrew Altieri has found that the commercially valuable quahog clam thrives in hypoxic waters in Narragansett Bay -- partly because the clam's predators flee the low-oxygen areas.

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