Examples of 'oligotrophic' in a sentence
Meaning of "oligotrophic"
Oligotrophic is used to describe an environment, especially a body of water, that has low nutrient levels and supports little plant life
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- deficient in nutrition (providing little nourishment)
- being poor in nutrients and minerals and therefore not having an excessive growth of algae and thus a no diminished oxygen content to other organisms.
- deficient in plant nutrients, such as nitrogen or phosphorus.
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Oligotrophic water containing very few minerals.
Dune slack pools permanent oligotrophic waters.
Oligotrophic lakes are deficient in nutrient substances.
They fare best in somewhat oligotrophic water.
It is oligotrophic in nature and its waters are alkaline.
Intermediate between oligotrophic and eutrophic.
Highly oligotrophic sites are colonized by low shrubs.
The water in the lake is oligotrophic.
It inhabits clear oligotrophic waters with low hardness.
Oligotrophic lakes are nutrient poor and low in productivity.
Moist and wet oligotrophic grasslands.
The concentration of oxygen is low in line with the oligotrophic environment.
The lake is oligotrophic in nature.
Mountain lakes are often oligotrophic.
Permanent oligotrophic waters.
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Wildlife is surprisingly abundant along this high altitude oligotrophic lake.
On the lower levels there are oligotrophic and mesotrophic bogs.
Concentrations were highest in acidic dystrophic lakes and lowest in oligotrophic lakes.
Eutrophic lakes better than oligotrophic because of potential productivity.
Collimonas is one of the species that are capable of living in the oligotrophic soil.
Natural shallow and oligotrophic lakes of cerrado harbor high biodiversity.
The mutual relationship is common in the oligotrophic environments.
The calcareous oligotrophic grasslands react very sensitively to nitrogen emissions.
Acidophilous oakwoods and oligotrophic heathlands.
They support a low biological productivity characteristic of young lakes also called oligotrophic.
These areas are described as oligotrophic and exhibit low surface chlorophyll.
Calcareous taxa are generally restricted to the uppermost cm in mesotrophic and oligotrophic sites.
The lake is oligotrophic.
Overfishing may be a feasible means of lowering methylmercury levels in this type of oligotrophic lake.
Dystrophic lakes used to be classified as oligotrophic due to their low productivity.
The smaller autotrophs can significantly contribute to both biomass and primary production in oligotrophic waters.
Luteus has been shown to survive in oligotrophic environments for extended periods of time.
The Adirondack flora is typical of acidic to circumneutral oligotrophic lakes.
Most rivers are best characterized as oligotrophic with relatively low annual primary productivity.
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains Littorelletaliauniflorae.
Both reservoirs are oligotrophic.
The cave environments are oligotrophic and have specific characteristics that determine the native microbiota.
It is classified as oligotrophic.
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains Littorelletalia uniflorae.
This area is traditionally classified as an oligotrophic zone with low primary productivity.
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains Littorelletalia uniflorarae.
Paleosuchus palpebrosus is a small crocodilian usually found in oligotrophic streams in several brazilian ecoregions.
Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of West Mediterranean sandy plains with Isoetes.
High primary productivity contributions are made in both oligotrophic and deep zones in oceans.
The Waneta reservoir is oligotrophic due to the low phosphorus and nitrogen content.
Hydrology Eutrophic lakes better than oligotrophic.
The plankton of a large oligotrophic freshwater Antarctic lake.
The upper Great Lakes have maintained their oligotrophic status.
The lake is oligotrophic in nature, and its waters are alkaline.
The total flora is characterized by a larger number of oligotrophic bacteria than eutrophic ones.
