Table 5.

Daily average pigments concentrations (mg·m⁻³) at 5 m and DCM depths at the different sites. 19’hex: 19’-hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin; 19’but: 19’-butanoyloxyfucoxanthin. Ratio DT/Chla = [∑[Chlc (Chlc₁,c₂,c₃), fucoxanthine, diatoxanthine,diadinoxanthine]] × [Chla]⁻¹. DT denotes diatom.

	Coast		Jet		Gyre
Depth	5 m	DCM	5 m	DCM	5 m	DCM
Chlorophyll a	0.311 ± 0.173	0.209 ± 0.125	0.220 ± 0.128	0.312 ± 0.260	0.047 ± 0.039	0.087 ± 0.079
Chlorphyll b	0.021 ± 0.005	0.011 ± 0.004	0.015 ± 0.007	0.032 ± 0.009	0.003 ± 0.002	0.029 ± 0.014
Chlorophyll c	0.054 ± 0.049	0.042 ± 0.049	0.017 ± 0.018	0.026 ± 0.027	0	0.002 ± 0.004
Peridinine	0.007 ± 0.013	0.002 ± 0.002	0.005 ± 0.006	0.002 ± 0.003	0.003 ± 0.003	0.003 ± 0.004
19’hex + 19’but	0.0980 ± 0.0495	0.055 ± 0.062	0.087 ± 0.037	0.166 ± 0.050	0.038 ± 0.020	0.121 ± 0.060
Ratio DT/Chla	1.680 ± 0.209	1.870 ± 0.645	0.951 ± 0.376	0.859 ± 0.163	2.287 ± 2.289	0.687 ± 0.527
Ratio 19’hex/Chla	0.262 ± 0.065	0.224 ± 0.138	0.394 ± 0.194	0.587 ± 0.323	1.769 ± 1.669	1.948 ± 2.406