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- adjective Lacking in plant nutrients and having a large amount of dissolved oxygen throughout. Used of a pond or lake.
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- adjective physiology, of a diet being
deficient innutrition - adjective geography, of a body of water being deficient in plant
nutrients , such asnitrogen orphosphorus
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Examples
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Depth related diversity of methanogen Archaea in Finnish oligotrophic fen.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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But other areas are characterized by oligotrophic soils on the uplands, meaning they are poor in nutrients.
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Lake Saanajärvi is a dimictic, ultra-oligotrophic, clear-water lake.
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009
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Isolation and characterization of oligotrophic acido-tolerant methanogenic consortia from a Sphagnum peat bog.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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With a longer and warmer ice-free season, total primary production is likely to increase in all arctic lakes and ponds, and especially in the oligotrophic high-arctic ponds that are currently frozen for a majority of the year [46].
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009
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Facultative anadromous species exhibit anadromy in polar regions to take advantage of marine coastal productivity and escape extreme oligotrophic conditions that typify arctic lake systems.
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Another area of intensive application of molecular tools was northern wetlands (cold, oligotrophic (nutrient poor), and usually acidic habitats) related to the methane cycle (sections 7.4 and 7.5).
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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The novel microbes of methane cycles are extreme oligotrophic species that evolved to function in media with very low concentrations of mineral nutrients.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Lakes and streams are ultra-oligotrophic, and are ice-free from July to September with strong summer stratification and oxygen saturation.
Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic 2009
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Surface waters are more oligotrophic, and have less kaolin and less turbidity, than the rest of Ecoregion 36.
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