The highly significant correlation between chlorophyll- a and dissolved APase does probably not imply causation as phytoplankton are not expected to produce APase under phosphate replete conditions.
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Microbial remineralization processes during postspring-bloom with excess phosphate available in the northern Baltic Sea.
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With a slight increase after the mid experiment, the dissolved fraction was the only fraction of APase activity that did not show a decreasing trend over time (Fig. 4 ).