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All right, so today we're going to talk about the impacts of utrophication.
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Uttrification is when there is an increase in nutrients, so things like nitrogen and phosphorus, normally human induced, and because of this increase in nutrients, there can be also an increase in algae.
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This increase in algae may actually end up causing a die -off in algae.
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Which then decreases the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water as these algae die and decompose and they take up a lot of space.
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This can cause fish die -offs.
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So the lane of the lab that we're talking about is called do or die.
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Pretty dramatic, i would say, but it's true.
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Nutrients can be quite deadly.
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And you need dulled oxygen for many organisms in lakes or else you will die.
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And this can be quite serious and cause things like harmful algal blooms and other things in like in the oceans or things too and other systems...