Environment & Ecology · Aquatic Ecosystems
What is the ultimate ecological transformation of a lake system caused by the continuous formation of thick detritus layers during advanced eutrophication?
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- 1It undergoes rapid geogenic sedimentation, converting the freshwater habitat into a stagnant coastal estuary.
- 2It progressively reduces in depth, transforming into a marshland and eventually becoming a terrestrial ecosystem.✓
- 3It experiences an increase in water body depth due to the rapid consumption of bottom sediments by invasive species.
- 4It transitions into a permanently anoxic deep-water basin dominated exclusively by toxic marine phytoplankton.
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It progressively reduces in depth, transforming into a marshland and eventually becoming a terrestrial ecosystem.
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