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Dog excrement is carried by rain into bodies of water, where it causes algae to grow rapidly and crowd out other organisms in the ecosystem. What is this process called?

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eutrophication

because of the def --- excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen

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The process in which animal excrement increases nitrogen levels and causes the growth of algae is called "algal blooming" . The phosporus and nitrogen increase due to the excrement is the cause of this phenomenon.
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