ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work is a product of the iBioGen project, which has received
funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 810729. We are grateful to the
Department of Forests -Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and
Environment, Republic of Cyprus- for providing sampling permission and
cartography of the forest habitat distributions. We would like to show
our gratitude to Savvas Savva and Heriberto López for assistance in
designing and building soil processing facilities at the University of
Cyprus, Zoe Makridou, Loudmila J. Lagou, Stylianos Mavrianos and Andreas
Dimitriou for help during sampling and sample processing, Konstantinos
Ntatsopoulos for support in Coleoptera taxonomy, and Angelina
Ceballos-Escalera and Elena Lugli (Natural History Museum, London) for
advice during metabarcoding library preparation. We also wish to thank
Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA) for access to computer
resources. V.N. was supported by a research contract under the iBioGen
project and a Juan de la Cierva-Formación postdoctoral fellowship (grant
FJC2018-035611-I) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and
Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund.