Sentence examples for reducing oxygen levels from inspiring English sources

Decomposition slows if bodies get cut off from the open sea, reducing oxygen levels and scavengers.

Another negative mechanism: Microdroplets of oil dispersed in the water might set off a feeding frenzy of microbes able to dine on the hydrocarbons, further reducing oxygen levels.

Climatic factors (e.g., warmer and drier spring and autumn seasons) are also reducing oxygen levels in deep waters through a longer and increasingly steep thermal stratification.

Turning off your light can raise ammonia levels in relation to nitrate by reducing oxygen levels and rate of metabolism.

With reducing oxygen level, swimming activity and therefore migration and even feeding activity of fishes are observed to be restricted (Kutty 1968; Hart 1947).

Then there is pollution, which reduces oxygen levels and visibility in coastal waters.

The creek's food chain is being stifled by sediment and reduced oxygen levels, Mr. Perry has concluded.

Stress, pollution and free-radical damage reduce oxygen levels and result in prematurely aged skin.

The only advantage he says he has allowed himself: regularly sleeping inside an altitude-simulating tent, where he inhales the reduced oxygen levels that would be available at ten thousand feet, prompting him to produce extra red blood cells.

Moreover, the UN environment programme confirmed in 2004 that there were nearly 150 "dead zones" in the world's oceans where discharged sewage and industrial waste, farm fertiliser run-off and other pollutants have reduced oxygen levels to such an extent that most or all sea creatures can no longer live there.

Farmers dump excess fertiliser into rivers, which finds its way to the sea; there cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) feed on the nutrients, proliferate madly and reduce oxygen levels, asphyxiating all sea creatures.