Protist Diversity and Seasonal Dynamics in Skagerrak Plankton Communities

Table S1. Protist V4 18S rRNA OTUs recorded at station OF2 during the sampling period September 2009 to June 2011 with number of reads in each sample and taxonomic placement. OTUs marked in red were removed after subsampling.

Table S4. New taxa recorded for the Skagerrak. A) genus and species names B) new records by groups.

Table S5. Microscopical biovolumes and cell counts at station OF2. Biovolumes (in µm3) were estimated from cell counts using the HELCOM 2006 protocol (Olenina et al. 2006).

File S1. Scripts for the bioinformatics pipeline in Qiime, phylogenetic analyses and statistical analyses in R.

File S2. Environmental data; salinity, temperature, density, fluorescence, nutrients by depth.

File S3. OTU fasta file with DNA sequences of all OTUs with more than 10 reads.