Affiliations

• ¹ Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems of the National Research Council (IRET-CNR), Florence, Italy.
• ² "Emil Racoviţă" Institute of Speleology, Department of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• ³ Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Changes, Global Change and Sustainability Institute, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ⁴ National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Life, Health, and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
• ⁶ Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
• ⁸ University of the Azores, Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group, Global Change and Sustainability Institute, School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal.
• ⁹ Water Research Institute of the National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Verbania, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹¹ Department of Organisms and Ecosystem Research, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ¹² Department of Organismal Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
• ¹³ Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany.
• ¹⁴ University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, SubBioLab, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ¹⁵ Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LEHNA UMR 5023, CNRS, ENTPE, Villeurbanne, France.
• ¹⁶ Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
• ¹⁷ Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹⁸ School of Information Technology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
• ²⁰ Department of Science, Technology and Society, School for Advanced Studies, Pavia, Italy.
• ²¹ Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
• ²² Department of Zoology, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
• ²³ Subterranean Research and Groundwater Ecology Group, Trace and Environmental DNA Lab, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
• ²⁴ Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
• ²⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Chico, CA, USA.