Acknowledgements
We thank the farmers and landowners for their cooperation in permitting
the sampling of the kettle holes. The authors would also like to
acknowledge Dr. Binia De Cahsan and Dr. Michael Westbury for their
assistance in analysing the metabarcoding data. Maxi Tomowski, Jonas
Stiegler and Victor Parry are thanked for their help with statistics and
writing the code in R, and Maxi Tomowski for her assistance in the
field. We also thank Dr. Marijke Autenrieth for support with data
visualization. This work was supported by Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the framework of the BioMove Research
Training Group (DFG-GRK 2118).