About the Authors

Dragoş Ştefan Măntoiu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

stephen.mantoiu@gmail.com

Affiliation “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology—Cluj Department, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Ionuţ Cornel Mirea

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Geospeleology and Paleontology, “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology, Bucharest, Romania, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Ionuţ Cosmin Şandric

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Geography, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Alina Georgiana Cîşlariu

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Iulian Gherghel

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Ovidius University Constanţa, Constanţa, Romania, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Silviu Constantin

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Geospeleology and Paleontology, “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology, Bucharest, Romania, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Oana Teodora Moldovan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology—Cluj Department, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.