About the Authors

Hajer Tlili

Contributed equally to this work with: Hajer Tlili, Najjaa Hanen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Pastoral Ecosystems and Valorisation of Spontaneous Plants and Microorganisms, Institute of Arid Regions (IRA), Medenine, Tunisia

Najjaa Hanen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hajer Tlili, Najjaa Hanen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Pastoral Ecosystems and Valorisation of Spontaneous Plants and Microorganisms, Institute of Arid Regions (IRA), Medenine, Tunisia

Abdelkerim Ben Arfa

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Laboratory of Pastoral Ecosystems and Valorisation of Spontaneous Plants and Microorganisms, Institute of Arid Regions (IRA), Medenine, Tunisia

Mohamed Neffati

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory of Pastoral Ecosystems and Valorisation of Spontaneous Plants and Microorganisms, Institute of Arid Regions (IRA), Medenine, Tunisia

Abdelbasset Boubakri

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Laboratory of Pastoral Ecosystems and Valorisation of Spontaneous Plants and Microorganisms, Institute of Arid Regions (IRA), Medenine, Tunisia

Daniela Buonocore

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Maurizia Dossena

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Manuela Verri

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Enrico Doria

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

enrico.doria@unipv.it

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.