What is the biological term for the process by which a water body becomes rich in dissolved nutrients, thereby stimulating the growth of aquatic life and ending in the depletion of dissolved oxygen in the water body?

Eutrophication

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Biodegradability

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Succession

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Trophogenesis

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Eutrophication

Due to this depletion, aquatic fish and plant life die, and anaerobic bacteria start thriving here

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