Publications

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  1. Di Lorenzo T, Lunghi E, Aanei C, Altermatt F, Alther R, Amorim IR, Băncilă RI, et al. (2024) EU Needs Groundwater Ecosystems Guidelines. Science 386(6726): 1103–1103
  2. Alther R, Cerroti F, Cereghetti E, Krähenbühl A, Altermatt F (2024) Generalization of a Density-Dependent Ecosystem Function in Dominant Aquatic Macroinvertebrates. Oikos: e10774
  3. Knüsel M, Alther R, Altermatt F (2024) Terrestrial Land Use Signals on Groundwater Fauna beyond Current Protection Buffers. Ecological Applications: e3040
  4. Knüsel M, Alther R, Couton M, Altermatt F (2024) Temporal Consistency and Spatial Variability in Detection: Implications for Monitoring of Macroinvertebrates from Shallow Groundwater Aquifers. Subterranean Biology 49: 139–161
  5. Knüsel M, Alther R, Locher N, Ozgul A, Fišer C, Altermatt F (2024) Systematic and Highly Resolved Modelling of Biodiversity in Inherently Rare Groundwater Amphipods. Journal of Biogeography 51(11), 2094–2108
  6. Knüsel M, Alther R, Altermatt F (2024) Pronounced Changes of Subterranean Biodiversity Patterns along a Late Pleistocene Glaciation Gradient. Ecography 2024(8): e07321
  7. Stoch F, Knüsel M, Zakšek V, Alther R, Salussolia A, Altermatt F, Fišer C, Flot JF (2024) Integrative Taxonomy of the Groundwater Amphipod Niphargus Bihorensis Schellenberg, 1940 Reveals a Species-Rich Clade. Contributions to Zoology 93(4): 371–395
  8. Schneider AS, Knüsel M, Alther R, Altermatt F (2024) Grundwasserbiodiversität: Makroinvertebraten in Schweizer Grundwasserökosystemen – Vorkommen, Vielfalt und Biomasse. Aqua & Gas 104 (3), 16–23
  9. Couton M, Studer A, Hürlemann S, Locher N, Knüsel M, Alther R, Altermatt F (2023) Integrating citizen science and environmental DNA metabarcoding to study biodiversity of groundwater amphipods in Switzerland. Scientific Reports 13:18097
  10. Knüsel M, Borko Š, Alther R, Salussolia A, Flot J-F, Altermatt F, Fišer C, Stoch F (2023) Phylogenetic structure and molecular species delimitation hint a complex evolutionary history in an Alpine endemic Niphargus clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Zoologischer Anzeiger 302, 27–36
  11. Cereghetti E & Altermatt F (2023) Spatio-temporal dynamics in freshwater amphipod assemblages are associated with surrounding terrestrial land use type. Ecosphere 14: e4469
  12. Studer A, Knüsel M, Alther R, Hürlemann S, Altermatt F (2022) Erfassung der Grundwasserflohkrebse. Studie zur Artenvielfalt und Verbreitung im Einzugsgebiet der Töss. Aqua & Gas 102 (4), 19–22
  13. Alther R, Krähenbühl A, Bucher P, Altermatt F (2023) Optimizing laboratory cultures of Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea: Amphipoda) as a study organism in environmental sciences and ecotoxicology. Science of The Total Environment 855, 158730
  14. Alther R, Altermatt F (2021) Die unterirdische Flohkrebsfauna der Schweiz. Stalactite 71 (1), 72–81
  15. Alther R, Fronhofer EA, Altermatt F (2021) Dispersal behaviour and riverine network connectivity shape the genetic diversity of freshwater amphipod metapopulations. Molecular Ecology 30(24), 6551-6565
  16. Alther R, Bongni N, Borko Š, Fišer C, Altermatt F (2021) Citizen science approach reveals groundwater fauna in Switzerland and a new species of Niphargus (Amphipoda, Niphargidae). Subterranean Biology 39, 1–31
  17. Alther R, Bongni N, Borko Š, Fišer C, Altermatt F (2020) Reiche Grundwasserfauna – Pilotstudie fördert Artenvielfalt zutage. Aqua & Gas 100 (7/8), 36–42
  18. Little CJ, Fronhofer EA & Altermatt F (2020) Nonlinear Effects of Intraspecific Competition Alter Landscape-Wide Scaling Up of Ecosystem Function. American Naturalist 195: 432–444
  19. Altermatt F, Alther R, Fišer C, Švara V (2019) Amphipoda (Flohkrebse) der Schweiz. Fauna Helvetica 32, info fauna CSCF & SEG, Neuchâtel. Order the book
  20. Little CJ, Fronhofer EA & Altermatt F (2019) Dispersal syndromes can impact ecosystem functioning in spatially structured freshwater populations. Biology Letters 15: 20180865
  21. Little CJ & Altermatt F (2019) Differential resource consumption in leaf litter mixtures by native and non-native amphipods. Aquatic Ecology 53: 151–162
  22. Alther R (2018) Diversity and Distribution of Amphipods in Switzerland. (PhD thesis)
  23. Fišer C, Alther R, Zakšek V, Borko S, Fuchs A, Altermatt F. (2018) Translating Niphargus barcodes from Switzerland into taxonomy with a description of two new species (Amphipoda, Niphargidae). ZooKeys 760: 113-141
  24. Little CJ & Altermatt F (2018) Landscape configuration alters spatial arrangement of terrestrial-aquatic subsidies in headwater streams. Landscape Ecology 33: 1519–1531
  25. Little CJ & Altermatt F (2018) Do priority effects outweigh environmental filtering in a guild of dominant freshwater macroinvertebrates? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20180205
  26. Little CJ & Altermatt F (2018) Species turnover and invasion of dominant freshwater invertebrates alter biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship. Ecological Monographs 88: 461–480
  27. Alther R & Altermatt F. (2018) Fluvial network topology shapes communities of native and non-native amphipods. Ecosphere 9 (2): e02102
  28. Alther R, Fišer C, Konec M, Švara V, Altermatt F. (2017) Das Hölloch: Ein Flohkrebs-Hotspot in der Schweiz. Stalactite 67 (1), 10-16
  29. Alther R, Fišer C, Altermatt F. (2017) Description of a widely distributed but overlooked amphipod species in the European Alps. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179 (4), 751-766
  30. Fišer C, Konec M, Alther R, Švara V & Altermatt F. (2017) Taxonomic, phylogenetic and ecological diversity of Niphargus (Amphipoda: Crustacea) in the Hölloch cave system (Switzerland). Systematics and Biodiversity 15(3)
  31. Eisenring M, Altermatt F, Westram AM & Jokela J. (2016) Habitat requirements and ecological niche of two cryptic amphipod species at landscape and local scales. Ecosphere 7: e01319
  32. Altermatt F, Alther R & Mächler E. (2016) Spatial patterns of genetic diversity, community composition and occurrence of native and non-native amphipods in naturally replicated tributary streams. BMC Ecology 16: 23
  33. Altermatt, F., Alther R, Fišer C, Jokela J, Konec M, Küry D, Mächler E, Stucki P, Westram AM. (2014) Diversity and distribution of freshwater amphipod species in Switzerland (Crustacea: Amphipoda). PLoS ONE 9(10): e110328