Auxiliary Material Diatom species found in GGC6 and included in the different groups Fresh-water species Achnanthes delicatula (Kuetzing) Grunow in Cleve et Grunow Achnanthes lanceolata (Brebisson in Kuetzing) Grunow in Cleve et Grunow Achnanthes minutissima (Kuetzing) Amphora copulata (Kuetzing) Schoeman et Archibald Aneumastis tusculus (Ehrenberg) Mann et Stickle (also found as a coastal species) Aneumastus stroesei (Ostrup) Mann Aulacoseira granulata (Ehrenberg) Simonsen Caloneis bacillaris (Gregory) Cleve Cocconeis placentula (Ehrenberg) Cyclotella kuetzingiana var. planctophora (Thwaites) Diploneis marginestriata (Hustedt) Eunotia kocheliensis (Mueller) Eunotia pectinalis (Mueller) Rabenhorst Gomphonema angustum (Agardh) Gomphonema subtile (Ehrenberg) Luticola mutica (Kuetzing) Mann Navicula capitata (Ehrenberg) Neidium productum (Smith) Cleve Nitzschia acicularis (Kuetzing) Smith Nitzschia capitellata (Hustedt) Nitzschia gracilis (Hantzsch) Nitzschia rosenstockii (Lange-Bertalot) Pinnularia microstauron (Ehrenberg) Cleve Pseudostaurosira brevistriata (Grunow in Van Heurck) Williams et Round Sellaphora pupula (Kuetzing) Mereschkowsky Staurosira construens (Ehrenberg) Staurosirella pinnata (Ehrenberg) Williams et Round Stephanodiscus hantzschii (Grunow) Brackish water species Actinocyclus normanii (Gregory ex Greville) Hustedt ex Van Landingham Amphora exigua (Gregory) Caloneis westii (Smith) Cocconeis peltoides (Hustedt) Craticula halophila (Grunow ex Van Heurck) Mann Cyclotella striata (Kuetzing) Grunow in Cleve et Grunow Diploneis smithii (Brebisson ex Smith) Cleve Epithemia adnata (Kuetzing) Rabenhorst Martyana martyi (Heribaud) Round Navicula peregrina (Ehrenberg) Kuetzing Navicula protracta (Grunow in Cleve et Grunow) Navicula salinarum (Grunow in Cleve et Grunow) Nitzschia lacunarum (Hustedt) Nitzschia lanceolata (Smith) (also found as a coastal species) Nitzschia ovalis (Arnott in Cleve et Grunow) Stauroneis amphioxys var. obtusa (Gregory) Mann Tryblionella debilis (Arnott in O'Meara) Temperate to warm water species Actinoptychus senarius (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg Coscinodiscus marginatus (Ehrenberg) Coscinodiscus radiatus (Ehrenberg) Dictyoneis marginata (Lewis) Cleve Nitzschia bicapitata (Cleve) Nitzschia sicula (Castracane) Hustedt Rhizosolenia hebetata forma semispina (Hensen) Gran Roperia tesselata (Roper) Grunow in Van Heurck Thalassiosira anguste-lineata (Schmidt) Fryxell et Hasle Thalassiosira diporocyclus (Hasle) Warm water species Alveus marinus (Grunow) Kaczmarska et Fryxell Asterolampra marylandica (Ehrenberg) Asteromphalus arachne (Brebisson) Ralfs in Pritchard Asteromphalus elegans (Greville) Asteromphalus flabelatus (Brebisson) Greville Asteromphalus roperianus (Greville) Ralfs in Pritchard Azpeitia africana (Janisch ex Schmidt) Fryxell et Watkins Azpeitia neocrenulata (Van Landingham) Fryxell et Watkins Azpeitia nodulifera (Schmidt) Fryxell et Sims Bacteriastrum comosum (Pavillard) Delphineis surirelloides (Simonsen) Fragilariopsis doliolus (Wallich) Medlin et Sims Hemiaulis hauckii (Grunow ex Van Heurck) Hemidiscus cuneiformis (Wallich) Nitzschia interruptestriata (Simonsen) Nitzschia kolaczeckii (Grunow) Rhizosolenia bergonii (Peragallo) Pseudosolenia calcar-avis (Schultze) Sundstroem Thalassionema bacillare (Heiden in Heiden et Kolbe) Kolbe Thalassionema frauenfeldii (Grunow) Hallegraeff Thalassiosira endoseriata (Hasle et Fryxell) Thalassiosira exigua (Fryxell et Hasle) Thalassiosira ferelineata (Hasle et Fryxell) Thalassiosira lineata (Jouse) Thalassiosira nanolineata (Mann) Fryxell et Hasle Cold water species Asteromphalus hookeri (Ehrenberg) Asteromphalus parvulus (Karsten) Bacteriosira fragilis (Gran) Chaetoceros debilis (Cleve) Chaetoceros furcellatus (Bailey) Fragilariopsis oceanica (Cleve) Hasle Fragilariopsis ritscheri (Hustedt) Porosira glacialis (Grunow) Jorgensen Rhizosolenia styliformis (Brightwell) Thalassiosira lentiginosa (Janish) Fryxell Thalassiosira nordenskioeldii (Cleve) Trichotoxon reinboldii (Van Heurck) Reid et Round Cold to temperate water species Coscinodiscus curvatulus (Grunow) Species frequently reported from coastal environment Cymatosira belgica (Grunow) Navicula cancellata (Donkin) Cymatosira lorenziana (Grunow in Van Heurck) (also reported as a warm water species) Navicula directa (Smith) Ralfs in Pritchard Nitzschia angularis (Smith) Rhaphoneis amphiceros (Ehrenberg) Thalassiosira decipiens (Grunow) Jorgensen Thalassiosira gravida (Cleve)