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Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology Faculty of Biology Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań Poland

Department of Ecology Faculty of Science Charles University Prague Czech Republic

Department of Environmental Science Aarhus University Roskilde Denmark

Department of Microbiology University of Tennessee Knoxville TN USA

Department of Terrestrial Biodiversity Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Trondheim Norway

Institute of Biological Rural and Environmental Sciences Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth UK

Interface Geochemistry GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam Germany

School of Biological Sciences Washington State University Pullman WA USA

School of Geography Queen Mary University of London London UK

Stream Biofilm and Ecosystem Research Laboratory School of Architecture Civil and Environmental Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland

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