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Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

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Figure 5 is a series of five rectangular boxes, one above the other, and connected by arrows pointing downwards. Starting from the top, they have the following wording: increase in plant nutrients, NO3 and PO43−; increase in primary producers; eutrophication – algal blooms, P usually limiting; depletion of oxygen (especially at night); depletion or death of other species.

 4 Plant nutrients