Which consequence results when coastal upwelling ceases near a major fishing ground?

💡 Explanation

When coastal upwelling ceases, the nutrient transport mechanism from deep water to the surface layer is interrupted because wind-driven currents weaken, leading to a reduction in available nutrients for phytoplankton growth. Therefore, nutrient supply depletion to phytoplankton results, rather than thermocline changes, increased oxygen, or greater carbon sequestration, which depend on active upwelling.

• Which landform evolves when repetitive thaw-freeze cycles drive solifluction of saturated sediment on slopes?
• Which mechanism causes smaller delta channel formation in a levee-confined alluvial plain during downstream sediment deposition?
• Which risk to unanchored pipeline integrity increases significantly when infrastructure crosses regions exhibiting solifluction?
• Which risk increases on steep, saturated Arctic slopes undergoing seasonal thaw and solifluction?
• Which process governs sediment sorting during alluvial fan deposition in arid climates?
• Which airflow results from an idealized, non-rotating Earth experiencing greater equatorial heating?