Table 1. Comparison of Water Characteristics.
| Site | Average values from May and June 2008 (T0, T-5days, T-22days) | Values from January 2007 (Garren et al. 2008) | ||||||||||
| Free-living Bacteria (cells x 106/ml±SE) | Virus-like Particles (VLP x 106/ml±SE) | Extracted Chl a (µg/L±SE) | Dissolved Organic Carbon (µM±SE) | Frequency of Dividing Cells (% total abundance dividing±SE) | Cyanobacteria Abundance (cells x 104/ml±SE) | Vibrio (TCBS media) plate counts (CFU/ml±SE)* | Kanamycin resistant plate counts (25 µg/ml; CFU/ml±SE)* | Free-living Bacteria Abundance (cells x 106/ml±SE) | Virus-like Particles (VLP x 106/ml±SE) | Extracted Chl a (µg/L±SE) | Dissolved Organic Carbon (µM±SE) | |
| Ref | 1.51±0.03 | 8.0±0.8 | 2.8±1.2 | 93.4±17.2 | 11.1±2.9 | 11.3±1.0 | 60±0 | 398±43 | ||||
| Far-1 | 1.94±0.05 | 14.2±0.9 | 3.7±0.1 | 77.5±0.9 | 11.9±2.0 | 7.5±0.8 | 40±12 | 1765±1495 | 0.54±0.03 | 10±0.7 | 0.25±0.03 | 69.7±1.3 |
| Far-2 | 1.76±0.04 | 14.8±1.0 | 4.1±1.6 | 82.0±4.6 | 10.5±2.8 | 9.9±1.2 | 53±7 | 285±95 | ||||
| Near-1 | 7.43±0.18 | 81.4±4.3 | 63.4±12.9 | 143.6±1.4 | 12.8±0.8 | 63.4±4.6 | 160±23 | 1008±93 | 0.61±0.06 | 70±3 | 4.5±0.2 | 141±2.9 |
| Near-2 | 5.71±0.15 | 75.9±3.6 | 60.2±15.3 | 158.0±2.5 | 12.4±1.9 | 52.2±5.9 | 220±23 | 1218±238 | ||||
| Pens | 10.25±0.50 | 112.3±4.7 | 99.8±25.2 | 189.8±1.0 | 16.7±1.4 | 64.2±8.0 | 340±46 | 1413±73 | 0.99±0.03 | 61±7 | 10.3±0.2 | 162±18.5 |
Water Characteristics from May/June 2008 compared to January 2007. (* signifies T0 data only).