oligotrophication

noun

Modification of an environment to make it oligotrophic

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Meanings

nounoligotrophication (countable and uncountable, plural oligotrophications)

plural oligotrophications

  1. countableuncountableModification of an environment to make it oligotrophic

    In LH-6-13, an up-core decrease in rates of accumulation for several sediment variables indicates time-course oligotrophication of the lake through the Holocene.

    2016 January 21, “A Holocene Sediment Record of Phosphorus Accumulation in Shallow Lake Harris, Florida (USA) Offers New Perspectives on Recent Cultural Eutrophication”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From oligotrophic + -ation.

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