Simulations of hypoxic duration and macrobenthic response.

<p>Simulated macrobenthos biomass (<i>B</i>) under hypoxic durations of (A) 120, (B) 60, and (C) 30 days; S1, S2, and S3, respectively. Left y-axis: the gray solid line represents modeled macrobenthos biomass and the black dots denote observed macrobenthos biomass from site LE3.4 of the Chesapeake Bay Benthic Monitoring Program in 1992. Right y-axis: the grey dashed line indicates the dissolved oxygen concentration. <i>B</i> was influenced by the duration of hypoxia.