Sentence examples for oxygen-poor from inspiring English sources
The word 'oxygen-poor' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe an environment or situation that lacks sufficient levels of oxygen. For example, "The deep sea is known to be an oxygen-poor environment, making it difficult for many species to thrive."
Bodies of water may have oxygen-poor zones.
Submerged in such an oxygen-poor environment, some of the animal's tissues petrified before decomposition set in.
It thrives without oxygen, a useful attribute given that many water sources are below the surface and thus oxygen-poor.
Trees in wetland soils can also act as straws, sipping methane from soggy, oxygen-poor soil.
So this seasonal rise in production of the gas -- off India and possibly in similar oxygen-poor waters -- may affect global warming.
The zone forms when winds from the north generate currents that carry nutrient-rich but oxygen-poor water from the deep sea to the surface near shore.
A "dead zone" of oxygen-poor water that formed off the coast of Oregon early last summer has dissipated, scientists at Oregon State University said.
During Australia's dry season, wild barramundi end up stuck into "billabongs" — broken-off river oxbows that become hot, stagnant and oxygen poor.
XPS has revealed the presence of an oxygen poor surface layer in the SiO2.
Long days promoting the termination of diapause elicit transcriptional profiles consistent with a transition from potentially oxygen poor to oxygen rich environments.
Hence, the transition from winter diapause to vernal development is accompanied by a transition from potentially oxygen poor to oxygen rich environments.
