Sentences with phrase «stimulate algae growth»

It is a primary cause of eutrophication of surface waters, in which excess nutrients, usually nitrogen or phosphorus, stimulate algae growth.

How will you get nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, to stimulate algae growth?

Researchers in Hawaii found that guppies released in the 1920s drove down native fish populations, perhaps by competing with them for food and living space, and had likely changed the cycle of nutrients in water: Guppy - rich areas showed increased levels of dissolved nitrogen — from ammonium in fish urine and gill excretions — which, in turn, stimulated algae growth.

Fish feeding disrupts the natural balance of ocean ecosystems and stimulates algae growth which is harmful to coral as well as disrupts the natural diversity of marine life.

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Water is a major concern, as is the use of nitrogen fertilizers to stimulate growth of cyanobacteria and microalgae — two microorganisms typically lumped together as algae biofuels.

eutrophication The process by which a body of water becomes full of nutrients, which then stimulates the excessive growth of plants and algae.

Overfertilization: Nitrogen and phosphorus from agriculture and sewage stimulate excess growth in the coral's algae, changing its metabolism so it makes more protein and less of the sugar that coral craves.

Like some of its competitors, Aurora will offer power plants and other carbon emitters the opportunity to sequester their emissions by feeding carbon dioxide into ponds to stimulate the growth of algae.