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excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, leading to the death of animal life
he argued that the controlling factor in eutrophication is not nitrate but phosphate
How To Use eutrophication In A Sentence
- Phosphorus was the nutrient element limiting the eutrophication of the lake.
- However, when discharged phosphorus and nitrogen compounds reach levels in the receiving waters that do cause eutrophication, further treatment, the so-called tertiary treatment, which "unfixes" the bound nitrogen in the waste (at great expense) by transforming it through denitrification to nitrogen gas, becomes necessary. Chapter 7
- So it is significance to study eutrophication of water and protect water environment.
- Phosphorus applied to fields as manure or commercial fertilizer can move into bodies of water during erosion and runoff events, and is largely responsible for the accelerated eutrophication of many bodies of water in Ohio.
- Outline the newest research orientation of eutrophication mechanism and breakout of water bloom.
- he argued that the controlling factor in eutrophication is not nitrate but phosphate
- The assessment grade of eutrophication state of lake is given by calculation and comparison of the fuzzy degree values of these fuzzy sets.
- In our study area, eutrophication promotes excessive growth of filamentous green algae in shallow coastal areas during late spring and early summers.
- Then nutrient in sediment becomes the leading factor of the lake eutrophication.
- She said emissions to air, waste management and water eutrophication required urgent action.
