How Eutrophication Affects Wildlife!
Why is Eutrophication bad?
When all of the oxyen gets used up, there is none left for the other organisms in the water, including fish, plants, microorganisms and more. This is very bad for but not just the species that it kills, but for other species also. This is because it may interrupt the food chain in the ecosystem of that body of water. An example would be if a bald eagle eats mainly fish and small rodents that it finds, and then the eutrophication kills all of the fish in the area, the bald eagle will then eat mainly mice so, instead of just fewer fish, there is now fewer mice also. The process of the food chain would continue, harming other species. Also if fish die in the body of water, it may be bad for human activities too. Of course, no one will want to go swimming like before because all the dead floating fish, and since there are no fish, no one can go fishing.
Eutrophication also changes the water to a blue-green color, increases the misquito production of around the water, creates a nasty smell, and can be dangerous to touch. The type of cynobacteria formed can be completely harmless or it can be really toxic.
Eutrophication also changes the water to a blue-green color, increases the misquito production of around the water, creates a nasty smell, and can be dangerous to touch. The type of cynobacteria formed can be completely harmless or it can be really toxic.
Eutrophication makes it difficult for organisms to live in their habitats. Frogs(as shown above) have to swim through the thick green substance covering the surface of the waters. And the picture on the right(with the dead fish lying on the surface), the eutrophication makes the water so dangerous to live in, it kills off animals who live in those waters.
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