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### **About the Editors**

**Roberta Piscia** has a degree in Biological Sciences and PhD in Environmental Sciences and is presently a permanent technician at CNR—Water Research Institute (Verbania), and she has been working at CNR—Institute for Ecosystem Study since 2009. Her fields of expertise include ecology of freshwater zooplankton; analysis of zooplankton resting stages in lacustrine sediments; and analyses of freshwater planktonic food webs and the role of crustacean pelagic zooplankton in the transfer of persistent organic pollutants by means of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses.

**Roberta Bettinetti** is an ecologist/ecotoxicologist of the water environments. Her interests are mainly based on the interactions between aquatic organisms (both lacustrine and marine) and the environmental risks associated with contaminants.

**Barbara Leoni** is an Associate Professor in Ecology at the University of Milan Bicocca. Main interests: the ecology of zooplankton, pelagic food-webs, long-term ecological and limnological research on deep lakes, and the impact of anthropogenic pressures (eutrophication, microplastic, climate change) in lentic ecosystems.

**Marina Manca** is presently Senior Research Associate at CNR IRSA, Verbania, and was previously Senior Researcher at CNR ISE (Institute for Ecosystem Study, formerly "Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia"). Between 2014 and 2016, she was the director of CNR ISE. Her fields of interest include ecology and population dynamics of freshwater zooplankton; reconstruction of zooplankton communities from fossil remains of lake sediments; functional ecology and long-term changes in freshwater zooplankton communities under human and climate impacts; changes in the diversity of zooplankton communities and the role of lake egg banks; and carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses for investigating lacustrine food webs and infra-zooplankton predation.
