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Table 1 Porewater nutrient concentrations Pore water nutrients in the sediment beneath meadows of different species (μmol L-1) (1ammonium data, 2nitrate data).

From: Posidonia oceanica meadow: a low nutrient high chlorophyll (LNHC) system?

 

Site

Total Nitrogen

Phosphorus

Reference

Seagrass

Meadows world-wide

 

861; 3.42

12

[35]

Posidonia oceanica

Spain

    
 

Blanes

6451+2 ± 776

6.0 ± 8.4

[4]

 

Giverola

2971+2 ± 376

10.8 ± 12.3

 

Corsica

    
 

Revellata Bay

61; 0.32

15

[36]

  

6.91+2 ± 2.9

1.3 ± 0.6

[37]

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