The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement no 262693 [INTERACT] to CR and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through project P-24098-B22 to MTP and RS. We thank Josef Franzoi, Gry Larsen and Salvador Morales-Gomez for chemical analyses at the University of Innsbruck. Further, we would like to thank Antero Järvinen, Rauni Partanen, Oula Kalttopää and Pirjo Hakala from Kilpisjärvi Biological Station who helped with setting up and organizing the experiments in Finland and Laurent Moya and Jolien Scholten for help during the experiment in Austria. Special thanks to Jim Cotner for his feedback on this manuscript. NC hold a postdoctoral grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2014–2016) and a ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Postdoctoral Grant (FJCI-2014-23064). The work reported is part of the doctoral dissertation of CR. The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Lake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck, Austria; Limnology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden; Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Emili Grahit 101, Girona, Spain; Stream Biofilm and Ecosystem Research Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland; ARGE Limnologie, Angewandte Gewässerökologie GesmbH, Innsbruck, Austria
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