TABLE 2.

Mean (± SE) bacterial biomass increase (ΔBB/Δt), DOC consumption rate (ΔDOC/Δt), and bacterial growth efficiency (BGE) in the Filtered treatment incubations of samples from each month and site.

	Seagrass			Mangrove			Phytoplankton
	ΔBB/Δt (μmol C L–1 d–1)	ΔDOC/Δt (μmol C L–1 d–1)	BGE (%)	ΔBB/Δt (μmol C L–1 d–1)	ΔDOC/Δt (μmol C L–1 d–1)	BGE (%)	ΔBB/Δt (μmol C L–1 d–1)	ΔDOC/Δt (μmol C L–1 d–1)	BGE (%)
February	0.20 ± 0.03	n.d.	n.d.	0.36 ± 0.03	1.88 ± 0.31	18.0 ± 2.7	0.13 ± 0.01	n.d.	n.d.
June	0.12 ± 0.03	4.48 ± 1.37	3.2 ± 1.0	0.44 ± 0.08	7.77 ± 2.29	6.9 ± 2.2	0.30 ± 0.02	4.27 ± 1.21	8.3 ± 2.1
September	0.24 ± 0.05	3.28 ± 1.15	4.4 ± 1.1	0.41 ± 0.09	9.23 ± 0.07	3.7 ± 1.1	0.15 ± 0.05	5.15 ± 0.81	3.3 ± 1.7
December	0.12 ± 0.01	0.92 ± 0.17	13.2 ± 2.1	0.20 ± 0.04	8.20 ± 2.60	3.1 ± 1.1	0.08 ± 0.01	2.28 ± 1.81	9.8 ± 7.7

See the text for details. n.d., no data.