Flagship umbrella species needed for the conservation of overlooked aquatic biodiversity

Affiliations

• ¹ Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Müggelseedamm 310, 12587, Berlin, Germany.
• ² Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Seestrasse 79, 6047, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.
• ³ Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁴ Ecosystem Modeling, Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland Nord 32, 97074, Würzburg, Germany.
• ⁵ Global Species Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, U.K.
• ⁶ Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, 38000, France.
• ⁷ CNRS, LECA, Grenoble, 38000, France.
• ⁸ Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133, Milano, Italy.
• ⁹ University of Western Australia, Crawley Western Australia 6009, and IUCN CEM Chair Ecosystems and Invasive Species, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, 6000, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Johannisallee 21, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
• ¹¹ Uni Research Miljø LFI, Nygårdsgaten 112, 5006, Bergen, Norway.
• ¹² Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam University, Maulbeerallee 2, 14469, Potsdam, Germany.
• ¹³ Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Altensteinstr. 34, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Institute of Biology, Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 1-3, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Landscape Hydrology, Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1066, Blindern, N-0316, Oslo, Norway.
• ¹⁷ Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade, KnezaViseslava 1, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia.