Sentences with phrase «eutrophic lakes»

Many large, eutrophic lakes such as Lake Erie are plagued each year by algal blooms so massive that they are visible from outer space.

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People have been turning lakes and ponds into eutrophic green pools with anoxic sediments for decades now; is the ocean starting to reflect this?

My understanding is that Lake Tahoe is becoming more eutrophic (less clear) and my expectation is that it will remain one of the clearest lakes in North America.

Although the global mapping of reservoir trophic status (and associated upscaling of CH4 emissions) is beyond the scope of this article, recent progress in the mapping of chlorophyll a in medium and large - sized lakes and reservoirs shows that about 60 % of systems have more than 10 micrograms per liter chlorophyll a (Sayers et al. 2015), and would therefore be considered eutrophic by most classification schemes (Cunha et al. 2013).