Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of algae and aquatic plants, resulting in a reduction of dissolved oxygen. Used of a lake or pond.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or promoting healthy nutrition.
- noun A medical agent employed to improve the nutrition.
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- adjective agriculture, of a body of water being rich in
nutrients andminerals and therefore having an excessive growth ofalgae and thus a diminishedoxygen content to the detriment of other organisms - adjective medicine promoting
nutrition - noun medicine a eutrophic
medicine
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- adjective (ecology) of a lake or other body of water rich in nutrients and subject to eutrophication
Etymologies
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Examples
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Within the miombo vegetation, "islands" of other vegetation types, such as eutrophic savanna on richer soils, river terraces and floodplains, provide superior forage.
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So while we might classify a site as becoming eutrophic/hypoxic in the 2000's, maybe it was experiencing issues beforehand.
Peter Hanlon: Dead Zones, Now in More Frightening Detail! Peter Hanlon 2011
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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! Peter Hanlon 2011
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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! Peter Hanlon 2011
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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! Peter Hanlon 2011
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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! Peter Hanlon 2011
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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! Peter Hanlon 2011
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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! Peter Hanlon 2011
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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! Peter Hanlon 2011
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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! Peter Hanlon 2011
qms commented on the word eutrophic
We shouldn’t be shy or myopic
But yogurt’s a sensitive topic,
For effluents leak
To make the stuff “Greek”
And all local ponds are eutrophic.
August 8, 2018