Ecosystem ecology needs an ecology of molecules

Authors: Freeman, Erika C. ^{1, 2, @, ⁎}, Peller, Tianna ^{1, 2, @}, Altermatt, Florian ^{1, 2, @}

Source: In Trends in Ecology & Evolution March 2025 40(3):219-223

Drivers of spatio-temporal variation in organic matter decomposition across a river network

Authors: Blackman, Rosetta C., Weisse, Bernhard, Altermatt, Florian

Source: In Ecological Indicators September 2024 166

Tracking a killer shrimp : Dikerogammarus villosus invasion dynamics across Europe

Authors: Soto, Ismael, Cuthbert, Ross N., Ahmed, Danish A., Kouba, Antonín, Domisch, Sami, Marquez, Jaime R. G., Beidas, Ayah, Amatulli, Giuseppe, Kiesel, Jens, Shen, Longzhu Q., Florencio, Margarita, Lima, Herlander, Briski, Elizabeta, Altermatt, Florian, Archambaud-Suard, Gaït, Borza, Peter, Csabai, Zoltan, Datry, Thibault, Floury, Mathieu, Forcellini, Maxence, Fruget, Jean-François, Leitner, Patrick, Lizée, Marie-Hélène, Maire, Anthony, Ricciardi, Anthony, Schäfer, Ralf B., Stubbington, Rachel, Van der Lee, Gea H., Várbíró, Gábor, Verdonschot, Ralf C. M., Haase, Peter, Haubrock, Phillip J.

Source: Diversity and Distributions, 2023 Jan 01. 29(1), 157-172.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48706381

A hotspot of groundwater amphipod diversity on a crossroad of evolutionary radiations

Authors: Borko, Špela, Altermatt, Florian, Zagmajster, Maja, Fišer, Cene

Source: Diversity and Distributions, 2022 Dec 01. 28(12), 2765-2777.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48699598

Fewer non-native insects in freshwater than in terrestrial habitats across continents

Authors: Sendek, Agnieszka, Baity-Jesi, Marco, Altermatt, Florian, Bader, Martin K.-F., Liebhold, Andrew M., Turner, Rebecca M., Roques, Alain, Seebens, Hanno, Spaak, Piet, Vorburger, Christoph, Brockerhoff, Eckehard G.

Source: Diversity and Distributions, 2022 Nov 01. 28(11), 2303-2315.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48691524

Multispecies coexistence in fragmented landscapes

Authors: Saavedra, Serguei, Ebert, Dieter, Altermatt, Florian

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Sep . 119(37), 1-8.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27207040

Groundwater environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals hidden diversity and reflects land‐use and geology

Authors: Couton, Marjorie, Hürlemann, Samuel, Studer, Angela, Alther, Roman, Altermatt, Florian

Source: Molecular ecology. 32(13):3497-3512

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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

Authors: Grigoropoulou, Afroditi, Hamid, Suhaila Ab, Acosta, Raúl, Akindele, Emmanuel Olusegun, Al‐Shami, Salman A., Altermatt, Florian, Amatulli, Giuseppe, Angeler, David G., Arimoro, Francis O., Aroviita, Jukka, Astorga‐Roine, Anna, Bastos, Rafael Costa, Bonada, Núria, Boukas, Nikos, Brand, Cecilia, Bremerich, Vanessa, Bush, Alex, Cai, Qinghua, Callisto, Marcos, Chen, Kai, Cruz, Paulo Vilela, Dangles, Olivier, Death, Russell, Deng, Xiling, Domínguez, Eduardo, Dudgeon, David, Eriksen, Tor Erik, Faria, Ana Paula J., Feio, Maria João, Fernández‐Aláez, Camino, Floury, Mathieu, García‐Criado, Francisco, García‐Girón, Jorge, Graf, Wolfram, Grönroos, Mira, Haase, Peter, Hamada, Neusa, He, Fengzhi, Heino, Jani, Holzenthal, Ralph, Huttunen, Kaisa‐Leena, Jacobsen, Dean, Jähnig, Sonja C., Jetz, Walter, Johnson, Richard K., Juen, Leandro, Kalkman, Vincent, Kati, Vassiliki, Keke, Unique N., Koroiva, Ricardo, Kuemmerlen, Mathias, Langhans, Simone Daniela, Ligeiro, Raphael, Van Looy, Kris, Maasri, Alain, Marchant, Richard, Garcia Marquez, Jaime Ricardo, Martins, Renato T., Melo, Adriano S., Metzeling, Leon, Miserendino, Maria Laura, Moe, S. Jannicke, Molineri, Carlos, Muotka, Timo, Mustonen, Kaisa‐Riikka, Mykrä, Heikki, Cavalcante do Nascimento, Jeane Marcelle, Valente‐Neto, Francisco, Neu, Peter J., Nieto, Carolina, Pauls, Steffen U., Paulson, Dennis R., Rios‐Touma, Blanca, Rodrigues, Marciel Elio, Oliveira Roque, Fabio, Salazar Salina, Juan Carlos, Schmera, Dénes, Schmidt‐Kloiber, Astrid, Shah, Deep Narayan, Simaika, John P., Siqueira, Tadeu, Tachamo‐Shah, Ram Devi, Theischinger, Günther, Thompson, Ross, Tonkin, Jonathan D., Torres‐Cambas, Yusdiel, Townsend, Colin, Turak, Eren, Twardochleb, Laura, Wang, Beixin, Yanygina, Liubov, Zamora‐Muñoz, Carmen, Domisch, Sami

Source: Global ecology & biogeography. 32(5):642-655

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Context‐dependent evolution of high trophic position drives functional disparity in subterranean crustaceans

Authors: Premate, Ester, Borko, Špela, Altermatt, Florian, Fišer, Cene

Source: Functional ecology. 37(9):2523-2534

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A combination of machine‐learning and eDNA reveals the genetic signature of environmental change at the landscape levels

Authors: Keck, François, Brantschen, Jeanine, Altermatt, Florian

Source: Molecular ecology. 32(17):4791-4800

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Quantifying biodiversity using eDNA from water bodies: General principles and recommendations for sampling designs

Authors: Altermatt, Florian, Carraro, Luca, Antonetti, Manuel, Albouy, Camille, Zhang, Yan, Lyet, Arnaud, Zhang, Xiaowei, Pellissier, Loïc

Source: Environmental DNA. 5(4):671-682

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Management of DNA reference libraries for barcoding and metabarcoding studies with the R package refdb

Authors: Keck, François, Altermatt, Florian

Source: Molecular ecology resources. 23(2):511-518

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Destabilizing Effects of Environmental Stressors on Aquatic Communities and Interaction Networks across a Major River Basin

Authors: Li, Feilong, Zhang, Yan, Altermatt, Florian, Yang, Jianghua, Zhang, Xiaowei

Source: Environmental science & technology. 57(20):7828-7839

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Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems

Authors: Lustenhouwer, Nicky, Moerman, Felix, Altermatt, Florian, Bassar, Ronald D., Bocedi, Greta, Bonte, Dries, Dey, Sutirth, Fronhofer, Emanuel A., Rocha, Érika Garcez, Giometto, Andrea, Lancaster, Lesley T., Prather, Robert B., Saastamoinen, Marjo, Travis, Justin M. J., Urquhart, Carla A., Weiss‐Lehman, Christopher, Williams, Jennifer L., Börger, Luca, Berger, David

Source: Journal of animal ecology. 92(6):1113-1123

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Navigating the seven challenges of taxonomic reference databases in metabarcoding analyses

Authors: Keck, François, Couton, Marjorie, Altermatt, Florian

Source: Molecular ecology resources. 23(4):742-755

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The last hideout: Abundance patterns of the not‐quite‐yet extinct mayfly Prosopistoma pennigerum in the Albanian Vjosa River network

Authors: Martini, Jan, Walther, Franziska, Schenekar, Tamara, Birnstiel, Emil, Wüthrich, Remo, Oester, Rebecca, Schindelegger, Bernadette, Schwingshackl, Thea, Wilfling, Olivia, Altermatt, Florian, Talluto, Matthew V., Singer, Gabriel, Vitecek, Simon

Source: Insect conservation and diversity. 16(2):285-297

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General principles for assignments of communities from eDNA: Open versus closed taxonomic databases

Authors: Blackman, Rosetta C., Walser, Jean‐Claude, Rüber, Lukas, Brantschen, Jeanine, Villalba, Soraya, Brodersen, Jakob, Seehausen, Ole, Altermatt, Florian

Source: Environmental DNA. 5(2):326-342

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Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems

Authors: McFadden, Ian R., Sendek, Agnieszka, Brosse, Morgane, Bach, Peter M., Baity‐Jesi, Marco, Bolliger, Janine, Bollmann, Kurt, Brockerhoff, Eckehard G., Donati, Giulia, Gebert, Friederike, Ghosh, Shyamolina, Ho, Hsi‐Cheng, Khaliq, Imran, Lever, J. Jelle, Logar, Ivana, Moor, Helen, Odermatt, Daniel, Pellissier, Loïc, Queiroz, Luiz Jardim, Rixen, Christian, Schuwirth, Nele, Shipley, J. Ryan, Twining, Cornelia W., Vitasse, Yann, Vorburger, Christoph, Wong, Mark K. L., Zimmermann, Niklaus E., Seehausen, Ole, Gossner, Martin M., Matthews, Blake, Graham, Catherine H., Altermatt, Florian, Narwani, Anita

Source: Ecology letters. 26(2):203-218

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The significance of partial migration for food web and ecosystem dynamics

Authors: Peller, Tianna, Guichard, Frédéric, Altermatt, Florian

Source: Ecology letters. 26(1):3-22

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Phylogenetic structure and molecular species delimitation hint a complex evolutionary history in an Alpine endemic Niphargus clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda)

Authors: Knüsel, Mara, Borko, Špela, Alther, Roman, Salussolia, Alice, Flot, Jean-François, Altermatt, Florian, Fišer, Cene, Stoch, Fabio

Source: In Zoologischer Anzeiger September 2023 306:27-36