Distribution of aerophilous diatom communities associated with terrestrial green macroalgae in the South Shetland Islands, Maritime Antarctica

• Juliana Ferreira da Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juliana Ferreira da Silva, Maria Angélica Oliveira Linton, Rodrigo Paidano Alves, Filipe de Carvalho Victoria, Antônio Batista Pereira

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

  Affiliation Antarctic Vegetation Studies Center, Federal University of Pampa, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Maria Angélica Oliveira Linton ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juliana Ferreira da Silva, Maria Angélica Oliveira Linton, Rodrigo Paidano Alves, Filipe de Carvalho Victoria, Antônio Batista Pereira

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phycology, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Raylane Ribeiro da Anunciação ,

  Roles Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors made smaller but essential contributions to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Phycology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Eduardo Pereira da Silva ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors made smaller but essential contributions to this work.

  Affiliation Antarctic Vegetation Studies Center, Federal University of Pampa, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Rodrigo Paidano Alves ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juliana Ferreira da Silva, Maria Angélica Oliveira Linton, Rodrigo Paidano Alves, Filipe de Carvalho Victoria, Antônio Batista Pereira

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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• Adriano Luis Schünemann ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors made smaller but essential contributions to this work.

  Affiliation Antarctic Vegetation Studies Center, Federal University of Pampa, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Filipe de Carvalho Victoria ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juliana Ferreira da Silva, Maria Angélica Oliveira Linton, Rodrigo Paidano Alves, Filipe de Carvalho Victoria, Antônio Batista Pereira

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: filipevictoria@unipampa.edu.br

  Affiliation Antarctic Vegetation Studies Center, Federal University of Pampa, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8580-1813

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• Margéli Pereira de Albuquerque ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors made smaller but essential contributions to this work.

  Affiliations Antarctic Vegetation Studies Center, Federal University of Pampa, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, National Institute of Antarctic Science and Tecnology, Federal University of Pampa, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Antônio Batista Pereira

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juliana Ferreira da Silva, Maria Angélica Oliveira Linton, Rodrigo Paidano Alves, Filipe de Carvalho Victoria, Antônio Batista Pereira

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antarctic Vegetation Studies Center, Federal University of Pampa, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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