Table 1.
Seawater nutrients and sediment elemental content among all the sampling stations
| Parameters | Stations | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | A2 | A3 | B1 | B2 | B3 | C1 | C2 | C3 | ||
| DIN (μmol·L−1) | 12.86 | 15.29 | 12.71 | 5.62 | 5.16 | 6.41 | 4.87 | 5.51 | 4.57 | |
| NH4 + (μmol·L−1) | 10.68 | 12.46 | 11.38 | 4.07 | 3.75 | 4.88 | 3.56 | 3.86 | 3.09 | |
| NO3 − (μmol·L−1) | 1.94 | 2.67 | 1.12 | 1.35 | 1.22 | 1.48 | 1.14 | 1.48 | 1.29 | |
| NO2 − (μmol·L−1) | 0.24 | 0.16 | 0.21 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.19 | |
| PO4 3− (μmol·L−1) | 0.97 | 0.68 | 0.73 | 0.42 | 0.47 | 0.32 | 0.45 | 0.40 | 0.35 | |
| Thalassia hemprichii | SOC (%) | 0.73 | 0.33 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.14 | |
| Sediment TN (%) | 0.053 | 0.039 | 0.025 | 0.021 | 0.018 | 0.015 | 0.01 | 0.013 | ||
| Sediment C/N | 16.07 | 9.87 | 7.47 | 7.78 | 11.02 | 10.11 | 10.5 | 12.56 | ||
| Enhalus acoroides | SOC (%) | 0.26 | 0.22 | 0.32 | 0.1 | 0.16 | 0.15 | |||
| Sediment TN (%) | 0.041 | 0.029 | 0.035 | 0.015 | 0.025 | 0.021 | ||||
| Sediment C/N | 7.40 | 8.85 | 10.67 | 7.78 | 7.47 | 8.33 | ||||