Table 4. Mesocosm taxa abundances.

		Treatment 1		Treatment 2		Treatment 3		Treatment 4		Treatment 5
		Total	Range	Total	Range	Total	Range	Total	Range	Total	Range
Bacteria		4.810	5.78–4.59	4.410	1.09–5.39	4.310	9.18–3.49	4.210	4.88–3.79	3.010	9.88 –1.99
Diatoms	(<10 µm)	135	0–29	160	0–43	168	0–46	145	0–39	35	0–7
Diatoms	(>10 µm)	0	–	0	–	1	0–1	2	0–1	6	0–2
Dinoflagellates	(<10 µm)	30	0–3	32	0–7	30	0–7	30	0–9	14	0–3
Blue-green algae		0	–	1	0–1	2	0–1	1	0–1	2	0–1
Nano-flagellates	(<10 µm)	2.05	4.93–2.14	1.85	4.93–2.24	1.75	2.53–1.84	2.05	3.93–1.74	3.35	1.03–2.24
Micro-flagellates	(>20 µm)	1720	9–204	1264	29–124	1083	4–134	991	9–118	1438	27–120
Ciliates		208	0.7–36.2	194	1–26	132	0–22	208	0–28	190	3–21
Polychaetes
	Prionospio sp.	235	0–78	12085	0–1873	16321	7–1892	13425	3–2285	1390	9–334
	Polychaete spp.	0	–	2	0–1	0	–	0	–	0	–
Nauplii		2376	0–664	1349	0–598	18934	8–3906	11257	4–2040	1757	4–237
Copepodites		539	0–137	286	0–43	5430	0–644	2873	0–312	520	0–49
Copepods
	Pseudodiaptomus hessei	113	0–24	100	0–18	1673	0–238	1308	0–179	97.5	0–13
	Paracartia longipatella	0	–	2	0–2	10	0–3	4	0–2	1	0–1
	Euterpina acutifrons.	1	0–1	4	0–2	7	0–2	9	0–3	9	0–5
	Cyclopoid spp.	3	0–3	11	0–4	42	0–11	23	0–5	4	0–2
Amphipods
	Grandidierella sp.	0	–	0	–	0	–	1	0–1	0	–
	Amphipod sp.	0	–	0	–	1	0–1	1	–	0	–
Isopod
	Exosphaeroma hylecoetes	0	–	1	0–1	0	–	1	0–1	2	0–2

Values represent overall abundance and the range (min–max) in values per taxon. Each of bacteria, diatom, dinoflagellate, blue-green algae, flagellate, and ciliate abundances are presented in numbers per mL. All other taxa abundances presented as total numbers per sample (26.43 L).