EESA11H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 – EESA11.pdf
17 Apr 2015
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Lecture 7 eesa11: march 12. Internationally known examples of eutrophication. Mississippi river: the mississippi river watershed is the largest drainage basin into the gulf of, in the gulf of mexico, hypoxia results from the stratification of marine. Mexico watershed. waters due to mississippi river system freshwater inflow and the decomposition of organic matter stimulated by excess mississippi river nutrients: as a general rule, the nutrients delivered to estuarine and coastal systems increase biological productivity. The stratification of marine waters: denser saltwater will tend to sink below the less dense water which is lower in salt. They combined satellite data showing the oil spill extent each week with data on weekly tuna spawning to figure out the amount of tuna decimated. The agency also said that the loss of juvenile tuna was significant due to the 82% decline of the tuna"s spawning stock in the western. Atlantic during the 30 years prior to the oil spill.
