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Table 2.

Water characteristics measured on site.

Site	Temperature (°C)^a	Dissolved (%) $O_{2}^{a}$	Specific conductance (μS/cm⁻¹)^a	Total dissolved solids (mg/L⁻¹)^a	Salinity (ppt)^a	pH ^a	Turbidity (FNU)^b	Chlorophyll (RFU)^a	Phycocyanin (RFU)^b
CONTROL	6.9 +/– 0.033 a	93.5 +/– 0.033 a	721.0 +/– 0.000 a	469.0 +/– 0.333 a	0.35 +/– 0.000 a	7.89 +/– 0.019 a	12.4 +/– 0.067 a	6.10 +/– 0.058 a	0.90 +/– 0.050 a
LO-EFF-UP	8.7 +/– 0.000 abc	91.4 +/– 0.000 bc	942.0 +/– 0.000 ac	612.0 +/– 0.000 ac	0.47 +/– 0.000 ac	7.72 +/– 0.006 abc	8.55 +/– 0.782 b	2.55 +/– 0.050 b	0.57 +/– 0.033 b
LO-EFF-DN	9.1 +/– 0.033 bc	92.0 +/– 0.200 abc	948.7 +/– 0.882 abc	617.0 +/– 0.000 abc	0.47 +/– 0.000 ac	7.75 +/– 0.028 ac	6.53 +/– 1.122 b	2.42 +/– 0.120 b	0.48 +/– 0.044 b
HI-EFF-UP	7.7 +/– 0.000 ab	72.7 +/– 1.139 b	1,102.3 +/−0.333 b	716.3 +/– 0.667 b	0.55 +/– 0.000 b	7.48 +/– 0.000 bc	7.65 +/– 1.000 b	1.25 +/– 0.074 c	0.31 +/– 0.010 c
HI-EFF-DN	15.3 +/– 0.033 c	93.4 +/– 0.088 ac	1,056.3 +/– 0.333 bc	686.3 +/– 0.333 bc	0.53 +/– 0.000 bc	7.44 +/– 0.012 b	1.05 +/– 0.026 c	0.57 +/– 0.017 d	0.09 +/– 0.021 d
Kruskal-Wallis ^c/ANOVA^d	p = 0.008^c	p = 0.01^c	p = 0.008^c	p = 0.008^c	p = 0.005^c	p = 0.01^c	p = 0.01^d	p ≤ 0.001^d	p ≤ 0.001^d

^{a, b}Mean values (n = 3) +/- standard error. Different letters within a column indicate significant differences between sites based on ^aDunn's test (p < 0.05) or ^bTukey's post-hoc test (p < 0.05).