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Inorganic nutrient availability affects organic matter fluxes and 1 metabolic activity in the soft coral genus Xenia 2 3 Vanessa N. Bednarz, Malik S. Naumann, Wolfgang Niggl and Christian Wild 4 5 Coral Reef Ecology Group (CORE), University of Bremen & 6 Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), 7 Fahrenheitstr. 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany 8 9 10 *corresponding author, E-mail: [email protected] 11 12 13 Short title: Inorganic nutrients affect Xenia corals 14 15 16