Table 3.

Water chemistry measurements for PL-36 (native conditions) and PL-09 (non-native condition. There were four total replicates from each playa lake water and the average of those measurements is given.

	Ammonia	DO	Nitrate	Nitrite	pH	Phosphate	Salinity	Sulfate	Sulfide
PL36-1	0.82	5.79	0.35	0.11	8.30	0.13	0.18	56	0.01
PL36-2	0.89	6.04	12.4	2.59	7.83	0.09	0.18	56	0.01
PL36-3	0.52	6.29	37.5	3.97	7.92	0.16	0.23	52	0.02
PL36-4	0.81	6.58	17	3.38	8.03	0.10	0.19	39	0.00
Average	0.76	6.18*	16.81	2.51	8.02*	0.12*	0.20	50.75*	0.01
PL09-1	0.84	1.31	0.02	0.00	7.61	0.67	0.28	2	0.01
PL09-2	0.36	1.05	0.05	0.00	7.65	0.51	0.23	3	0.00
PL09-3	0.38	3.60	0.10	0.00	7.81	0.93	0.17	2	0.00
PL09-4	0.31	1.13	0.18	0.00	7.64	0.44	0.23	5	0.00
Average	0.47	1.77*	0.09	0.00	7.68*	0.64*	0.23	1.41*	0.00

A significant t-test between water chemistry measurements is denoted by an * in the ‘Average’ field.