. 2011 Mar 29;9(4):500–513. doi: 10.3390/md9040500

Table 1.

Plankton cell densities and PUA concentrations on the sampled stations. Species are shown of the biomass on at least one station (the following species were present only on one station, mediterraneus (V33), Rhizosolenia imbricate (V28) and Rhizosolenia setigera (V37)).

Station	V4	V7	V8	V9	V12	V13	V13	V15	V17	V21	V21	V21	V28	V28	V33	V35	V37
Depth (m)	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	0	6	15	0	17	0	0	0
Species and cell densities (×10³ cell L⁻¹)

Bacillariophyceae¹	2.7	1.4	1.1	4.3	6.5	814	159.1	2.2	2.2	7.5	5.4	4.3	4.6	9.3	7	2.5	4.9

Cerataulina pelagica				2.2	4.3	37.7	58.6			2.2	1.1		0.8	3.6
Chaetoceros spp.															2.2		3.5
Guinardia flaccida				2.2							0.5
Pseudosolenia calcar avis								1.1					0.3	0.7		0.4
Skeletonema marinoi						776.3	71.2				0.5		1.6	2.2
Thalassiosira rotula										2.2			1.3	0.7

Dinophyceae¹	2.2	135.1	35.6	112.1	114.3	237.2	184.2		0.5	29.1	5.9	0.5	7.5	11.5	1.6	1.1	1.6

Gonyaulax polygramma				8.6									0.3
Gymnodinium spp.		11.5		4.3	15.1	16.2	16.7		0.5				3.2	0.7	1.6		1.6
Prorocentrum minimum	1.6	122.2	20.5	15.1	81.9	221	142.3			27	5.9	0.5	3	9.3
Und. naked	0.5		9.7	10.8	6.5		8.4									0.7

Prymnesiophyceae¹	15.1	10.1	21.6	56.1	30.2	5.4	4.2	18.6	33.4	1.6	16.7	17.3	12.7	27.3	6.5	16.2	11.9

Emiliania huxleyi	15.1	10.1	21.6	38.8	30.2	5.4	4.2	18.6	33.4	1.6	16.7	17.3	12.7	27.3	6.5	12.2	11.3

Cryptophyceae¹	11.3	46	18.3	97	28	248	12.6	5.7	9.2	39.9	18.3	5.4	13.5	18	19.4	4.3	3.2

Nanoflagellates¹	23.7	140.9	139.1	394.6	472.2	690	493.9	30.2	53.9	194.1	124.5	201.6	108.1	92	51.2	75.1	52

Total¹	55	333.5	215.6	664.1	651.2	1994.6	853.9	56.6	99.2	272.2	170.9	229.1	146.4	158.1	85.7	99.2	73.6

Dissolved PUA (nM)

Heptadienal	0.032	0.03	0.039	0.019	0.028	0.079	0.128	0.033	0.022	0.059	0.062	0.051	0.053	0.049	0.046	0.054	0.041
Octadienal	0.043	0.039	0.027	0.032	0.005	0.118	0.109	0.048	0	0.055	0.037	0.05	0	0	0	0	0

Particulate > 1.2 μ (nmol per cells from 1 L, ±Standard deviation, n = 3)

Heptadienal	0	0	0	0	0	18.1±7.1	7.9±1.1	0.04±0.01	0.05±0.02	3.61±0.4	0.29±0.091	0.22±0.14	0.41±0.08	0.13±0.02	0.02±0.02	0.03±0.02	0
Octadienal	0	0	0	0	0	10.5±2.7	4.5±0.9	0	0	1.62±0.07	0.074±0.033	0.05±0.06	0.1±0.08	0	0	0	0

0.2 < Particulate < 1.2 μ (nmol per cells from 1 L)²

Heptadienal	0	0	0.106	0	0	0	0.043	0.064	0.635	0.038	0.043	1.804	0.202	0.015	0	0.046	0.041

values are the total of all counted cells for the group, including the species not presented here.

no octadienal detected in these samples.