Acknowledgements
This book would not exist without the help of many people. We are grateful to all our colleagues and friend who helped us taking or processing lake-sediment samples, namely Milan Novikmec, Marek Svitok, Danka Dobríková, Veronika Slobodníková, Marcela Přidalová-Sedlačková, Lucia Nižníková, and Marcela Adamcová. Guillermo de Mendoza and Pete Cranston are acknowledged for their notes on Ablabesmyia; Arnold Móra for his valuable comments to the earlier version of the Tatra Mts. part of the manuscript. We are grateful to Dan Vondrák, Aneta Formáčková and Jesper Petersen for providing pictures of non-chironomid remains, Katarína Trnková of her photograph of lake Morské oko, and Nera Vuić for allowing us to use her drawing of a chironomid dorsal head. Help from Jozef Oboňa (Psychodidae), Matúš Kúdela (Simuliidae) and Oliver Heiri with the identification of non-chironomid dipteran remains is highly acknowledged. The temperature optima used in the book were calculated using the Tatra Mts. training-set by Marek Svitok. Proofreading of Martina Jambrović improved the clarity of the text significantly, hvala. Many thanks to Peter Turis for valuable comments to the structure of the Carpathians and for creating the map of the mountain range. The day-by-day support and patience of our partners and spouses during the never-ending writing of the book was substantial; thank you all.
This book is a result of a long-term research and received funding from various projects, such as APVV-20-0358, APVV-15-0292, VEGA: 1/0341/18, VEGA 1/0400/21, Austrian-Czech Lead Agency project – Austrian Science Fund FWF No. 19770 / Czech Science Foundation No. 20-00892L, Polish National Centre of Sciences Grant No. N N306 077436.