@florianaltermatt.bsky.social
Full Professor of Aquatic Ecology University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social | Kuratorium Forum Biodiversity | Founding Director https://biodiversitaet.uzh.ch/en.html | all & beyond #biodiversity, #eDNA & #AquaticEcology | Like=interesting www.altermattlab.ch
Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation's most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday at 84. Follow live.
17.02.2026 10:49 — 👍 2729 🔁 770 💬 106 📌 109
Improving #species #abundance information from #river #eDNA metabarcoding data: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🐜 🧬 📈 🌐🌍
08.02.2026 08:25 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Save the date! 2nd #Zurich #Biodiversity #Career day 2.11.2026:
www.biodiversitaet.uzh.ch/de/career_da...
🎯 🔬 🦠 👩🎓 🧬 🐟 📈 🍃 🦐 🤝
Highly independent 2-Year #Postdoctoral #Fellowship in the field of #aquatic #science and #technology 🌍 🔬 🧬 🐟 🚰 🚹 🌊 🛰️ 🥼 at Eawag @eawag.bsky.social
Apply now:
apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...
4/4 Further, field replicates, when used as a proxy for the frequency of observation of a species through the seasons, yielded comparable temporal patterns to the ones extracted from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) for about 35% of investigated species.
@eawag.bsky.social #UZH
3/4 We assessed if #eDNA can capture the temporal changes of #Ephemeroptera, #Plecoptera, #Trichoptera, and #Diptera.
We found pronounced, cyclic phenological trends in most groups: the communities diverged from spring to summer and then in fall gradually returned closer to the spring state.
2/4 ➡️ #Aquatic #insects are ecologically highly relevant in riverine systems & used in monitoring programs 📈 to assess ecological states.
➡️ Commonly, monitoring is conducted at 1–2 timepoints/y, despite known phenology of aquatic insect strongly affecting species presence/detection across seasons.
Tracking the #phenology ⏰ of #riverine #insect 🦟 🐜 communities using #eDNA 🧬🌐🌍.
Out now by Eva Cereghetti et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Dear Julie
apologies... to quick in copy-paste... hope it works now, otherwise DM!
thx for your interest
here's the functional link www.nature.com/articles/s44...
27.01.2026 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@francoiskeck.bsky.social @rosiecblackman.bsky.social @leeselab.bsky.social @lorihandley.bsky.social #YanZhang #XiaowqeiZhang #MarjorieCouton #LucaCarraro
27.01.2026 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Utilizing aquatic #eDNA 🧬 to address global 🌍🌐 #biodiversity targets 🎯
Our #article @natrevbiodiv.nature.com is now freely available (upon registration) till Feb 16th: ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... part of special collection 📚 on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF 🌍 🦐 🐟 🧬
Study #Biodiversity 🐟 🍃 🦐 🧬 🌍 🔬 🦠
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdy...
BSc & MSc #study #program @ University #Zürich 👩🎓 teaching students giving students the foundation on patterns, processes and functions of biological diversity with a high interdisciplinary focus 🎯📈 📚
#Biodiversität studieren! 🐟 🍃 🦐 🧬 🌍 🔬 🦠
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdy...
BSc & MSc Studienprogramme "Biodiversität" @UZH 👩🎓 vermitteln umfassendes wissenschaftliches Verständnis der Muster, Prozesse & Funktionen der biologischen Vielfalt.
Starker interdisziplinären Fokus 🎯📈 📚
Vibe coding kills open source.
Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social
Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
Comments welcome.
@ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute
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23.01.2026 20:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shifting leaf fall duration and order of arrival thus has the potential to impact carbon cycling, even when the combined resource quantity remains constant.
by #LukeIreland @tiannapeller.bsky.social & myself #UZH @eawag.bsky.social
➡️ Exposure duration and arrival order of leaf species strongly influenced combined leaf litter consumption. Earlier arrival of high-quality leaves enhanced feeding on low-quality leaves.
23.01.2026 20:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
↔️ These subsidies are highly seasonally structured, yet their phenologies ⏰ are shifting with climate change 📈 .
We experimentally demonstrated how order of arrival and exposition duration of different leaf species 🍂 🍃 affect decomposition by amphipods 🦐 as a key aquatic ecosystem function.
Shifting leaf fall #phenology disrupts #ecosystem #function.
Out now @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
➡️ Leaf litter fall 🍂 and processing in temperate streams is one of the most pervasive resource subsidies and ecosystem functions globally 🌍 .
🌱 #Biodiversität in der #Schweiz: Der Zustand bleibt ungenügend. Trotz verlangsamtem Rückgang besteht grosser Handlungsbedarf. Unser neuer datenbasierter #Report zeigt #Fakten, Entwicklungen und Lösungsansätze 👉 biodiversitaet2026.ch #Wissenschaft #Forschung
15.01.2026 12:00 — 👍 20 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2
New paper in Oikos! 🎉
Ecosystems are connected by resource flows, and ecosystem size can mediate their effects. But how does size mediate the effects of resource flows between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems—one of nature's most ubiquitous linkages?
A quiet start to the Holidays🎄: a bit of #birding with my son around Lake Pfäffikon. Kingfisher, kestrel, merganser 🐦⬛🦉🦆🦅🪶. No particular spectacular observation, yet wonderful foggy scenery. Spending time in nature nearby is among the best things one can do—pure happiness and relaxation.
21.12.2025 12:55 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0indeed magic! its one of these enigmatic ecosystems/species that you here in lectures & books, would feel exactly the same!
23.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
🎉 Excited to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD!
From 270 eDNA samples across Shark Bay (🇦🇺), we identified 106 fish species and mapped their diversity with remote sensing — all non-invasively! 🌊🐠
A scalable framework for characterising marine biodiversity
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70074
Out now by Zhang et al:
Hyperspectral imagery 🛰️, LiDAR point clouds 🛩️, and #eDNA 🧬 to assess land-water linkage of #biodiversity across #aquatic functional feeding groups.🐟🪰🦠🔬🌐🌍
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@eawag.bsky.social #UZH
"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
What a gem! the Death's Head #Hawkmoth. 💀🦋Excited each time I find one!
06.10.2025 09:51 — 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In massive #collaborative #effort, we assembled published & unpublished #fish 🐟 #eDNA 🧬 metabarcoding datasets, covering ~2000 sampling sites/>100 river systems globally. 🐟 🐠 🐡 🌐 🌍
Now results out in 2 #parallel #preprints @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
#aquatic #biodiversity #meta-analysis
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