eutrophic

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• Extremely eutrophic waterbodies are polluted because they often cannot support a fishery, cannot be used for drinking water, and have few recreational opportunities and poor esthetics.
• Plant and animal competition is most marked on fertile soils of eutrophic forests and grasslands.
• It is interesting that they found a lower incidence of food limitation in K. cochlearis from an oligotrophic lake than we found in a eutrophic pond which presumably had a higher total biomass of phytoplankton.
• One of the map's most powerful features is its ability to show the locations of hypoxic and eutrophic sites over time. Peter Hanlon: Dead Zones, Now in More Frightening Detail!
• Eutrophication is the main factor for the degradation of lake ecosystem.
• Enter the World Resources Institute (WRI) and its interactive and exhaustively-researched map of 762 (and counting) eutrophic and hypoxic sites around the world, each identified with accompanying descriptions, photos and even videos. Peter Hanlon: Dead Zones, Now in More Frightening Detail!
• Turtlegrass was obtained from oligotrophic waters near Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas; eelgrass was collected from a eutrophic environment in Monterey Bay, California.
• At present, the most common and serious anthropogenic perturbation of lakes is eutrophication due to increased nutrient availability.
• Our results suggest that in eutrophic lakes fish predation on zooplankton may be more important than nutrient excretion by fish for the structure and dynamics of planktonic communities.
• As Selman explained, the doubling of nitrogen and tripling of phosphorous in the environment since 1960 -- primarily from intensive agriculture - correlates with the explosive growth in the number of hypoxic and eutrophic sites. Peter Hanlon: Dead Zones, Now in More Frightening Detail!