Fig 6. Comparison between the open and coastal Levantine Basin (eastern Mediterranean Sea) water.

Box-plot distribution of NO₂+NO₃ (A), PO₄ (B), Si(OH)₄ (C), bacterial production, BP (D), primary production, PP (E) and N₂ fixation (F) in the open Levantine Basin (euphotic zone, bottom depth of stations >1000 m) and in the coastal site (this study). Data for the open sea were compiled from Yogev et al., [35]; Kress et al., [3, 36], Rahav et al., [37, 38, 39]; Bonnet et al., [40], Ibello et al., [41] and Rahav et al., unpublished.