Oligotrophication

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Modification of an environment to make it oligotrophic countable, uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From oligotrophic + -ation.

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