Urgent plea for global protection of springs

Affiliations

• ¹ MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Limnology & Phycology Section, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, Trento, 38123, Italy.
• ² School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072, Australia.
• ³ Springs Stewardship Institute, Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N. Ft. Valley Rd., Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, U.S.A.
• ⁴ Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72076, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Biology, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, 16652, U.S.A.
• ⁶ Institute of Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Kaiserstr. 12, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany.
• ⁷ Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, 23695 US 27, High Springs, FL, 32643, U.S.A.
• ⁸ Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, 3041-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
• ⁹ School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 4099, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, U.S.A.
• ¹⁰ Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries - IGB, and Institute of Biology, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹¹ Austrian Science Fund - FWF, Sensengasse 1, Vienna, 1090, Austria.