Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
	Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen
	Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück

with support provided by: SMART and BioFresh project

Christiane Zarfl , Alexander E. Lumsdon, Jürgen Berlekamp, Laura Tydecks & Klement Tockner

Christiane Zarfl
Center for Applied Geosciences
University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany

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This research has been partially carried out within the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program SMART (www.riverscience.it) funded by the EACEA and the EU-funded project BioFresh (project.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu). Dr. Ulrich Schwarz provided data for the Balkan region.