Table 2.

Temperature, salinity and nutrient concentrations (${\text{PO}}_4^{3-}$, ${\text{NO}}_3^{-}$, ${\text{NO}}_2^{-}$, ${\text{NH}}_4^{+}$, and SiO₂) of the water at stations 1–7 at the start and end dates of the in situ experiment.

	Station
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Start	19/08/14	20/08/14	20/08/14	19/08/14	19/08/14	28/04/15	28/04/15
End	03/09/14	04/09/14	04/09/14	03/09/14	03/09/14	12/05/15	12/05/15
T [°C]	17.40	18.30	17.00	17.95	17.60	15.20	14.75
	0.50	0.60	0.50	0.55	0.10	0.90	0.95
S	14.70	13.45	13.45	10.05	6.55	0.00	0.00
	3.70	2.95	3.15	0.35	4.25	0.00	0.00
${\text{PO}}_4^{3-}$ [μmol/l]	0.322	1.230	0.819	2.143	3.310	0.351	2.032
	0.106	0.188	0.133	0.291	1.117	0.051	0.400
${\text{NO}}_3^{-}$ [μmol/l]	0.090	2.666	3.841	48.757	6.032	751.350	701.804
	0.000	1.406	3.330	35.068	0.591	170.728	125.371
${\text{NO}}_2^{-}$ [μmol/l]	0.041	0.347	0.169	0.593	0.703	11.417	0.454
	0.011	0.185	0.045	0.044	0.380	7.699	0.235
${\text{NH}}_4^{+}$ [μmol/l]	0.432	3.377	2.283	7.554	5.471	24.949	1.231
	0.069	0.581	0.199	1.334	4.287	21.766	0.705
SiO2 [μmol/l]	5.191	17.838	11.148	146.962	>40	155.154	148.929
	0.649	5.629	3.076	9.885	na	31.888	19.942

Numbers are mean values with standard deviation below. S, Salinity; T, Temperature.