140 organisms were examined for their presence or absence of alginate-degradation capacities based on literature. Their habitat information was largely collected from the fields "Habitat" or "Isolation" in the IMG/M database (March 2017) \cite{Markowitz_2011}  when available. Otherwise, strain description literature was analyzed. Based on this information, microorganisms were assigned to one of the following four categories: soil-, seawater-, freshwater-dwelling and others (including organisms associated with animal or plant hosts, or  other ambiguous habitats).