Sentences with phrase «reducing eutrophication»

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(2010) Novel methods for reducing agricultural nutrient loading and eutrophication.

· Wide - scale deployment of a mix of low - carbon electricity generation technologies, as foreseen in mitigations scenarios such as the IEA's Blue Map Scenarios, helps to stabilize or reduce pollution such as eutrophication, acidification, particulates, photochemical smog, and toxicity.

Nitrogen - and phosphorus - driven freshwater and marine eutrophication has major socioeconomic consequences that include lost livelihoods, reduced property values, damage to fisheries, loss of recreational opportunities, and several health risks.

In addition to increasing the quantity of organic carbon and reducing the availability of oxygen, eutrophication may also affect the overall quality of organic matter for fueling CH4 - producing archaea.

Because algae grown under nutrient rich conditions tend to be relatively lipid poor, the authors posit that this resource quality feedback reduces the strength of the positive feedback between eutrophication and methane production (West et al. 2015b).

At the same time, eutrophication may promote larger CH4 emissions, both by reducing O2 concentrations in reservoir bottom waters and by increasing organic matter quantity (as described below).