During rain events, runoff brings an excess of nutrients (that have collected and become stagnant on land), like nitrates, into the ocean. This spike in nutrients is called eutrophication.
Think of the effects of this change and answer the questions below:
a. Nitrogen is often the limiting factor in an environment for photosynthetic autotrophs (such as
plants and algaes). Draw a logistic growth graph representing the population of algae in the coastal ocean.