Acknowledgements
This work was carried out in the framework of the Fourth Joint Danube
Survey (JDS4) and was led and funded by the International Commission for
the Protection of the Danube River (I.C.P.D. R) and in collaboration
with the EU COST Action DNAqua-Net (CA15219) and the INTEREG MEASURES
programme (DTP2-038-2.3). Additional funding was provided by the
Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism (BMLRT)
and the ÖK-IAD (Österreichisches Komitee der Internationalen
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Donauforschung). This publication is also part of
the bilateral Austrian-Hungarian Joint Research Project RIMECO
“Functioning of vertebrate metacommunities in dynamic riverine
landscapes: an innovative approach using eDNA metabarcoding” supported
by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (I 5006) and the ANN-OTKA (141884)
grant. We thank SPYGEN staff for their help in eDNA analysis in the
laboratory.