GoM	Gulf of Mexico
EEZ	Exclusive Economic Zone
AOU	Apparent Oxygen Utilization
ROMZ	Relative Oxygen Minimum Zone
NADW	North Atlantic Deep Water
AAIW	Antarctic Intermediate Water
SUW	Subtropical Underwater
TACW	Tropical Atlantic Central Water
POM	Particulate Organic Matter
NPP	Net Primary Production
PSU	Practical Salinity Units
ASV	Amplicon Sequence Variant
NMDS	Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling
PERMANOVA	Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance
VIF	Variance Inflation Factor
CTD	Conductivity–Temperature–Depth