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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 17.
Published in final edited form as: FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2016 May 12;92(8):10.1093/femsec/fiw103 fiw103. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiw103

Table 1.

Origin of Zygogonium AUT-p and Zygogonium SCOT-p.

Isolate Habitat Metrological data
Zygogonium ericetorum AUT‘purple morph’ (Zygogonium AUT-p) Streamlet on Mt. Schönwieskopf (~2300 m a.s.l.), Tyrol, Austria (46.84804°N 11.01539°E); isolated on 18 August 2013; water depth 5-20 cm, open water surface; air temperature: 8.5 °C Min. air temperature: -8-6 °C
Max. air temperature: -3-12 °C
Monthly rainfall days: 11-18
Monthly precipitation: 36.3-120.3 mm
Annual rainfall: 839 mm
Zygogonium ericetorum SCOT ‘purple morph’ (Zygogonium SCOT-p) Wayside near Glencoe (~45 m a.s.l.), Lochaber, Scotland (56°41’05.6”N 5°05’25.9”W); isolated on 16 Aug 2014; algal filaments covered by thin water layer; air temperature: 16.9 °C Min. air temperature: -0.7-9.7 °C
Max. air temperature: -5.5-17.4 °C
Monthly rainfall days: 14-20
Monthly precipitation: 77.0 -248.3 mm
Annual rainfall: 1809.4 mm

Habitat characteristics and meteorological data (temperatures expressed as means; www.worldweatheronline.com, http://www.metoffice.gov.uk) are given.