About the Authors

Bram Vanschoenwinkel

bram.vanschoenwinkel@bio.kuleuven.be

Affiliation Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Joachim Mergeay

Affiliations Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Geraardsbergen, Belgium

Tom Pinceel

Affiliation Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Aline Waterkeyn

Affiliation Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Hanne Vandewaerde

Affiliation Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Maitland Seaman

Affiliation Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Luc Brendonck

Affiliation Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BV JM LB. Performed the experiments: BV HV AW. Analyzed the data: BV JM TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LB MS. Wrote the paper: BV JM AW LB.