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Dominik Kirschner

@kirschdo.bsky.social

Researcher in the Altermatt Lab at EAWAG. Interested in eDNA technology and its application in detecting biodiversity and biomonitoring.

229 Followers  |  36 Following  |  5 Posts  |  Joined: 17.11.2023  |  1.4963

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Paper alert 🚨
Check out our latest paper in Nature on "The global human impact on biodiversity".

This was an amazing project. Thanks to @francoiskeck.bsky.social for the great lead and inviting me into this great team to help with this massive effort.

#biodiversity , #science

27.03.2025 06:53 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Probably most exciting events in academic life are defenses of #PhD projects and release of PhD theses. Last fall 4 of my students defended their theses (by #MaraKnüsel #RebeccaOester @kirschdo.bsky.social & #HengZhang). Now all their theses are printed. A condensate of ecological knowledge! 🧬🔬🐟🦐🍂

27.01.2025 19:43 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

We conclude that the lack of structure in the landscape is reflected in the lack of structure in the aquatic community.
A big thanks goes out to all the collaborators, most of them not yet here on the bluesky:
@florianaltermatt.bsky.social
Loic Pellissier
Xiaowei Zhang
Yan Zhang
Wenjun Zhong

23.11.2023 10:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We investigated if #fish community structure is determined by the #LULC and #spatial gradients. Fitting distance-decay models and redundancy analyses, we found weaker-than-expected links between the #LULC, #environmental gradients, and the #community structure. 

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23.11.2023 10:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Despite high human population density, intense agriculture and strong pollution, our study revealed relatively high fish diversity (63 OTUs). We showed that these OTUs are randomly spread and we could not detect well-established richness patterns along #spatial gradients.

23.11.2023 10:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Lets start this Bluesky account with something great:

I am excited to share the first output of my PhD! We explored how intense land use affects fish 🐟 diversity in China's Shaying River basin using #eDNA #metabarcoding. 

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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23.11.2023 10:32 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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