Esterase activity, lysis rate, concentrations of particulate and dissolved polyunsaturated aldehydes for each transect in the Northern Adriatic Sea.

1Lysis rate calculated according to Riegman & Winter 2003.
Mean and range of percent of non-enzymatic hydrolysis (NEH, nM h−1) of fluorescein to esterase activity, particulate and dissolved esterase activity (PEA and DEA, nM h−1, both corrected from NEH), lysis rate (LR, d−1) and concentrations of particulate (fmol cell−1) and dissolved (nM) polyunsaturated aldehyde (PUAs) (7:2, 8:2 and 8:3 for heptadienal, octadienal and octatrienal, respectively) per transect in March 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 in the Northern Adriatic Sea. * Traces of decatrienal were also detected.