Which marine ecosystem effect results when thermocline depth sharply increases?

💡 Explanation

Reduced upwelling decreases nutrient supply to surface aquatic ecosystems, and oxygen dissolution diminishes because shallower thermoclines do not permit benthic water mixing; therefore, dissolved oxygen reduces rather than improves other environmental markers under stratification conditions.

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