Summary: Eutrophication Experiment

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  • Which sources are responsible for the accelerated nutrient loads which result in eutrophication?


    Point sources and diffuse sources
  • What are diffuse sources?

    Run-off, groundwater and atmospheric deposition
  • What is stimulated by eutrophication?

    Excess plant growth and coloured algal soups
  • Which plants result from eutrophication?

    Duck weed, water hyacinth, submerged plants
  • What kind of organisms are phytoplankton?

    Photoautotrophic
  • From which are phytoplankton build of? Name the 6 things.

    Elements, H, C, O, N, P, Fe.
  • Which elements are the ones are the most important ones that could limit the primary production?

    N, P, Si, Fe
  • What is primary production?

    The formation of biomass by autotrophic organisms through the uptake of inorganic carbon and other nutrients. Nutrients need to be taken up from surrounding medium.
  • Harmful algal bloom pose a risk for:


    • Human and animal poisonings;

    • sustainability of ecosystems through
      • severe overgrowth,
      • oxygen depletion,
      • release of potent toxins that may inhibit/eliminate other species
  • When does oxygen depletion (Anoxia) occur as a result of harmful algal bloom?

    • When respiration by a huge biomass during the night is no longer cmpensated by reaeration.
    • due to bacterial breakdown of a decaying bloom
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