Table 2. Water temperature, salinity, pH and oxygen concentrations of the field and mesocosm experiments.
| Mediterranean field | Southeast Asia field | Mediterranean mesocosm |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eulittoral | pelagic | benthic | pela**gic | benthic | all habitats | ||
| year 1 | year 2 | ||||||
| Highest daily max. temp. (°C) | 34.5 | 38.4 | 25 | 20 | 28.6±0.4** | 28.6±0.5** | 20.5±1.0** |
| Highest daily mean temp. (°C) | 25 | 30 | |||||
| Lowest daily mean temp. (°C) | 12 | 11 | 14 | ||||
| Lowest daily min. temp. (°C) | -0.8 | -1.0 | |||||
| Salinity range | 36–42* | 38 | 34.0±0.4** | 33.9±0.2** | 39.0±1.0** | ||
| Minimum salinity | ~0* | ||||||
| Maximum salinity | 70* | ||||||
| Mean pH | 7.6–8.2* | 8.2 | 8.1±0.1** | 8.1±0.1** | |||
| Minimum pH | 6.8* | ||||||
| Maximum pH | 9.0* | ||||||
| Oxygen (% air saturation) | 20–80* rarely ~100* | ~100 | 100.8±4.6** | 101.3±6.8** | 98.0±2.0** | ||
*The data for Mediterranean field eulittoral were analyzed from sediment porewater.
**mean ± standard deviation.