Sentences with phrase «massive algal blooms»

Nutrients would pour down off the increasingly denuded land into the sea, triggering massive algal blooms, which would exhaust the water of oxygen and threaten fish.

While the extra nitrogen is a rich resource for algae in the Gulf, driving the growth of massive algal blooms, excess nitrogen has a more deadly impact on other marine life.

Sea cucumbers at Station M feed on dead algae (brown material on gray deep - sea mud) that sank from the sunlit surface waters after a massive algal bloom.

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The outcome: algal blooms so massive that ecosystems turn into dead zones, resource - poor realms inhospitable to other life.

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

This causes stagnent seas which with the massive runoff from the land carrying huge nutrient loads become huge algal bloom fields.