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Table 5a. Sawgrass biomass in the flume, January, 1996 [Plants are 13 months old; layer in centimeters above the sediment/water interface; sample biomass in grams dry weight per square meter (gdw/m²); dead includes all dead material.]

Sample biomass (gdw/m²)
Sample designation----	10E1			10E2			10E3			10E4
Layer	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total
60-90	157.58	19.02	176.60	110.94	28.85	139.79	162.18	32.51	194.68	130.10	14.57	144.67
40-60	145.31	54.54	199.85	96.01	34.66	130.67	162.75	69.32	232.07	123.14	55.97	179.11
20-40	162.03	52.82	214.85	101.47	67.17	168.64	146.53	59.63	206.17	104.98	47.15	152.13
0-20	167.92	144.60	312.51	97.95	192.60	290.56	135.91	146.82	282.73	136.56	152.63	289.19
total	632.85	270.97	903.82	406.38	323.28	729.66	607.38	308.28	915.66	494.79	270.32	765.11

Sample biomass (gdw/m²)
Sample designation----	20E1			20E2			20E3			20E4
Layer	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total
60-90	91.42	13.99	105.42	218.15	34.37	252.52	109.51	21.46	130.96	150.48	60.42	210.90
40-60	78.72	42.84	121.56	194.18	55.90	250.08	91.42	58.63	150.05	109.08	89.77	198.85
20-40	98.74	64.30	163.04	152.20	61.00	213.20	111.44	90.85	202.29	131.39	81.88	213.27
0-20	100.46	115.68	216.14	228.48	127.16	355.64	145.96	162.18	308.14	108.14	122.14	230.28
total	369.35	236.81	606.16	793.02	278.43	1,071.45	458.33	333.11	791.44	499.09	354.21	853.30

Sample biomass (gdw/m²)
Sample designation----	30E1			30E2			30E3			30E4
Layer	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total
60-90	187.80	41.69	229.49	111.59	20.31	131.89	63.29	13.85	77.14	109.79	47.36	157.15
40-60	179.40	103.62	283.02	99.39	38.61	137.99	52.53	21.38	73.91	79.94	43.99	123.93
20-40	130.82	58.99	189.81	102.40	45.64	148.04	62.00	52.96	114.96	94.44	77.07	171.51
0-20	215.06	196.91	411.97	148.76	144.02	292.78	71.98	161.96	233.94	135.48	211.19	346.67
total	713.08	401.21	1,114.29	462.13	248.58	710.71	249.80	250.16	499.95	419.65	379.61	799.26

Sample biomass (gdw/m²)
Sample designation----	40E1			40E2			40E3			40E4
Layer	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total	Live	Dead	Total
60-90	120.20	27.84	148.04	122.35	62.93	185.28	65.95	29.42	95.37	133.11	18.44	151.56
40-60	118.26	46.72	164.98	112.66	75.92	188.59	60.13	37.03	97.16	124.14	29.71	153.85
20-40	95.80	63.01	158.80	117.83	97.59	215.42	57.84	60.92	118.76	136.99	47.07	184.06
0-20	109.36	202.36	311.73	153.28	157.80	311.08	50.09	158.95	209.04	151.70	112.38	264.08
total	443.62	339.93	783.55	506.12	394.25	900.37	234.01	286.32	520.33	545.95	207.60	753.55

Table 5b. Summary of sawgrass biomass in the flume, January, 1996 [Plants are 13 months old; layer in centimeters above the sediment/water interface; sample biomass in grams dry weight per square meter (gdw/m²); SD = standard deviation, N = number of samples; dead includes all dead material.]

Layer	Average live biomass	SD	N	Average dead biomass	SD	Average total biomass	SD
60-90	127.78	40.81	16	30.44	15.61	158.22	48.01
40-60	114.19	40.35	16	53.66	22.08	167.86	56.20
20-40	112.93	29.57	16	64.25	15.42	177.18	33.23
0-20	134.82	46.39	16	156.84	30.72	291.66	53.89
total	489.72	148.98	16	305.19	58.49	794.91	169.62

Table 5c. Descriptive information on flume vegetation, January, 1996 [Plants are 13 months old; layer in centimeters above the sediment/water interface; average width in millimeters.]

Layer	Average # leaves/m²	Average width	Average # leaves/m²	Average width	Average # leaves/m²	Average width	Average # culms/m²	Average width	Average # culms/m²	Average width
	Large leaves		Medium leaves		Small leaves		Large culms		Small culms
60-90	87.0	8.5	343.1	6.3	293.8	3.5			8.5	4.2
40-60	61.4	9.0	285.7	6.0	214.8	3.8	13.5	10.2	50.7	5.1
20-40	52.0	9.2	131.0	6.4	147.1	4.0	36.3	11.9	61.0	6.4
0-20	49.3	10.6	59.7	7.0	34.5	3.5	55.2	14.0	59.7	7.8

Table 5d. Summary of leaves and culms in the flume, January, 1996 [Plants are 13 months old; layer in centimeters above the sediment/water interface; SD = standard deviation; N = number of samples.]

Layer	Total leaves/m²	SD	N	Total culms/m²	SD
60-90	723.9	214.96	16	8.5	11.18
40-60	562.0	181.93	16	64.1	27.2
20-40	330.1	129.04	16	97.3	28.34
0-20	143.5	83.15	16	114.8	32.52

Table 5e. Leaf area index by layer for the flume, January, 1996 [Leaf area index is calculated for live leaves and culms only; layer in centimeters above the sediment-water interface; see text for formulas.]

Layer	Leaf Area Index	Corrected Leaf Area Index
60-90	1.195	1.480
40-60	0.694	1.020
20-40	0.545	0.856
0-20	0.460	0.994
Total	2.894	4.349

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