Eutrophication Flowchart
Aquatic Plant life, like algae
Excess nutrients are and seaweed, flourishes
flushed into rivers and because of the excess
bodies of water nutrients, now seen as
pollutants.
Decomposition depletes Oxygen
further. Dead plants are broken This leads to an algal
down by bacterial decomposers, bloom. This prevents
using up the last parts of available sunlight from reaching
Oxygen plants, killing them.
Oxygen is also
depleted.
The ecosystem dies.
Oxygen levels are
depleted to a point where
life can no longer be
sustained. Fish and other
organisms die.
Aquatic Plant life, like algae
Excess nutrients are and seaweed, flourishes
flushed into rivers and because of the excess
bodies of water nutrients, now seen as
pollutants.
Decomposition depletes Oxygen
further. Dead plants are broken This leads to an algal
down by bacterial decomposers, bloom. This prevents
using up the last parts of available sunlight from reaching
Oxygen plants, killing them.
Oxygen is also
depleted.
The ecosystem dies.
Oxygen levels are
depleted to a point where
life can no longer be
sustained. Fish and other
organisms die.
