About the Authors

Stefano Larsen

larsen@igb-berlin.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Berlin, Germany

Laura Mancini

Affiliation Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Giorgio Pace

Current address: Freshwater Ecology and Management group (F.E.M), Departament d'Ecologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Affiliation Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Massimiliano Scalici

Affiliation Department of Biology, ‘Roma Tre’ University, Rome, Italy

Lorenzo Tancioni

Affiliation Experimental Ecology and Aquaculture, Department of Biology, ‘Tor Vergata’ University, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM MS LT. Performed the experiments: SL MS GP LT. Analyzed the data: SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS LT. Wrote the paper: SL GP MS.