Sentence examples for lakes thus from inspiring English sources

In the last few decades, increased inputs of nutrients (mostly nitrogen and phosphorus) to agricultural land have led to runoff transporting an ever growing portion of these nutrients from non-point (diffuse) pollution sources into rivers and lakes, thus threatening freshwater quality.

However, legal wrangling has produced the illogical conclusion that one bay has no impact on the rest of the lake, thus avoiding the boundaries of the reservation.

The governments of the states surrounding the Aral Sea tried to institute policies to encourage less water-intensive agricultural practices in the regions south and east of the lake, thus freeing more of the waters of the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya to flow into the lake and to stabilize its water level.

Such a step would protect the lake from the adverse effects of proliferation of phumdis and maintain the ecological balance of the lake, thus converting the waste into wealth.

The amount available from rivers and lakes is thus relatively limited, a fact of growing concern as demand for water grows.

In particular, turbulent diffusion promotes significantly mass and momentum transport beneath the interface between the water and air significantly in ocean and lakes, and thus it is very important for global environment problems to reveal such turbulence property and coherent structure.

Annual smolt counts were not available for any years for the Wood River lakes, and thus, we used the average Mc estimated for Iliamna Lake sockeye salmon (0.588 year−1).

These distinctive features of the modern haplochromines, that have arisen just in their ancestor, in combination with the numerous ecological niches that are provided by the large East African lakes might thus have induced a considerable increase of the haplochromines' evolutionary potential.

Indeed, although our data on exploratory behaviors comes from only one lake, and thus precludes generalization, we have also found in a previous study that stonewort individuals from both lakes had a lower propensity to engage mating, which also independently suggests a tendency to avoid exposure [21].

The catchment area under greater agricultural activities is subjected to huge quantities of fertilizers which after their partial utilization get leached into the lake waters, thus leading to the nutrient enrichment and eutrophication which further aggravates the growth of microorganisms.

Moreover, Pedersen et al. [11] found evidence by 13C-CPMAS-NMR that hydrophobic aliphatic and aromatic organic molecules could resist degradation in drained thaw-lake basins, thus constituting the largest part of recalcitrant organic matter.