Sentences with phrase «called algal blooms»
Those growths are called algal blooms.
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When this water, called submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), trickles through contaminated soil and rock, it can pick up and transport a variety of ions, nutrients, and chemicals to the sea — including pollutants that contribute to coastal dead zones and toxic algal blooms.
They're different from the so - called dead zones that form at the mouths of rivers whose polluted waters prompt algal blooms.
At certain times and under certain conditions, some dinoflagellate species and other algal species can undergo population explosions called blooms, sometimes in response to human - caused pollution.
Death by Algae Under the right conditions — warm water and a boost of nutrients — algae can grow so explosively that those toxins become a problem, creating what's called a harmful algal bloom, or HAB.
The global warming connection to increasing incidence of what biologists call «harmful algal blooms» has yet to be established.