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| Description: In estuaries, salt marshes, and mangrove forests, oxygen concentration is highly variable and often reaches extreme levels. Decomposition of the large quantities of organic matter produced in these environments can deplete dissolved oxygen to very low levels, and isolation of saline bottom water from the atmosphere adds to the likelihood that oxygen will be depleted. At the same time, however, high rates of photosynthesis can increase dissolved oxygen concentrations to supersaturated levels. Again, the oxygen concentrations to which an organism is exposed can change with each turn of the tide.
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