Karst-environments of the southeastern Yucatan Peninsula: Hotspots for modern freshwater microbialites

• Alfredo Yanez-Montalvo,

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

  Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Carretera Transpeninsular, Fraccionamiento Playitas, Ensenada, Baja California, México

  Affiliation Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ucú, Yucatán, México

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• Bernardo Águila,

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

  Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tercer Circuito s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico

  Affiliation Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ucú, Yucatán, México

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• Arit S. de León-Lorenzana,

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

  CONAHCYT- Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo, Centro de Innovación para el Desarrollo Apícola Sustentable. Carretera Federal Muna Felipe Carrillo Puerto Km 137 s/n, 77870, La Presumida, José María Morelos, Quintana Roo, México

  Affiliation Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ucú, Yucatán, México

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• Arturo Bayona,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Carretera a Vigía Chico Kilometro 1.5, Centro, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, México

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• Nuria Torrescano-Valle,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, A. del Centenario km 5.5, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México

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• Pavel Popoca,

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

  Affiliation Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ucú, Yucatán, México

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• Luisa I. Falcón

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: falcon@ecologia.unam.mx

  Affiliation Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ucú, Yucatán, México

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7210-6483

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