Large-scale patterns of benthic marine communities in the Brazilian Province

• Anaide W. Aued ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anaidewru@gmail.com

  Affiliations Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Marine Macroecology and Biogeography Lab, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Laboratório de Ecologia de Ambientes Recifais, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6101-0822

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• Franz Smith,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Juan P. Quimbayo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Marine Macroecology and Biogeography Lab, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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• Davi V. Cândido,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratório de Ecologia de Ambientes Recifais, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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• Guilherme O. Longo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Ecology Lab, Department of Oceanography and Limnology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

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• Carlos E. L. Ferreira,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Reef Systems Ecology and Conservation Lab, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Jon D. Witman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Sergio R. Floeter,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Marine Macroecology and Biogeography Lab, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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• Bárbara Segal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Laboratório de Ecologia de Ambientes Recifais, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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