Contributi ai media
- SRF Wissenschaftsmagazin “Auch das Grundwasser wird wärmer” del 6 settembre 2025 (Link, dal minuto 11:31).
- SRF 10vor10 “Winzige Flohkrebse als Indikator für gute Wasserqualität” dal 3 febbraio 2025 (Link)
- Radio BeO “Einfluss Landnutzung auf Lebewesen im Grundwasser” dal 6 gennaio 2025 (Link)
- Rivista oliv “Putzmannschaft im Grundwasser” da gennaio 2025 (Link)
- SCNAT Carte blanche “Die einzigartige Biodiversität des Grundwassers braucht mehr Beachtung” dal 12 dicembre 2024 (Link)
- l’environnement “Eaux souterraines : une richesse insoupçonnée” da maggio 2024 (Link)
- NZZ am Sonntag “Die Löwen des Grundwassers” dal 5 maggio 2024 (Link)
- Der Landbote, Winterthur “Die Flohkrebse im Töss-Grundwasser sind ein gutes Zeichen” dal 12 giugno 2023 (Link)
- Contributo al film Eawag “Grundwasserfauna Schweiz” dal 27 gennaio 2023 (Link)
- Contributo al film Nano “Ökosystem Grundwasser – Unerforschter Lebensraum” dal 10 marzo 2022 (Link)
Articoli scientifici
- Couton M, Knüsel M, Locher N, Alther R, Altermatt F (2025) The Importance of Karstic Aquifers for the Past and Future Survival of Groundwater Amphipods. Diversity and Distributions 31(9): e70063 Link
- Saccò M, Abdul E, Mahima T, Alther R, Altermatt F, Martínez A, Mammola S, et al. (2025) Advancing Subterranean Conservation through Global Research on eDNA in Groundwaters (GReG). Subterranean Biology 53: 31–40 Link
- Delić T, Di Batista Borko Š, Premate E, Rexhepi B, Alther R, Knüsel M, Malard F, et al. (2025) Phylogenetic Origin of Morphologically Cryptic Species Shapes Co-Occurrence and Sympatry Patterns. Freshwater Biology 70(2): e70000 Link
- 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 Link
- Knüsel M, Alther R, Altermatt F (2024) Terrestrial Land Use Signals on Groundwater Fauna beyond Current Protection Buffers. Ecological Applications: e3040 Link
- 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 Link
- 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 Link
- Knüsel M, Alther R, Altermatt F (2024) Pronounced Changes of Subterranean Biodiversity Patterns along a Late Pleistocene Glaciation Gradient. Ecography: e07321 Link
- 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 Link
- Schneider AS, Knüsel M, Alther R, Altermatt F (2024). Grundwasserbiodiversität: Makroinvertebraten in Schweizer Grundwasserökosystemen – Vorkommen, Vielfalt und Biomasse. Aqua & Gas, 104(3), 16-21. pdf
- 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(1), 18097 (13 pp.). pdf
- Schneider AS, Knüsel M, Altermatt F (2023) Assessment of occurrence, diversity, and biomass of macroinvertebrates in Swiss groundwater systems using citizen science data. Subterranean Biology 46, 147-164. Link
- 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 306, pp. 27-36. Link
- Martin P, Knüsel M, Alther R, Altermatt F, Ferrari B, Vivien R (2023): Haplotaxis gordioides (Hartmann in Oken, 1819) (Annelida, Clitellata) as a sub-cosmopolitan species: a commonly held view challenged by DNA barcoding. Zoosymposia 23. pdf
- Couton M, Hürlemann S, Studer A, Alther R & Altermatt F. 2023. Groundwater environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals hidden diversity and reflects land-use and geology. Molecular Ecology 32: 3497–3512. pdf
- 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), 14–19. pdf
- 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. pdf
- Alther R, Bongni N, Borko Š, Fišer C, Altermatt F (2020) Reiche Grundwasserfauna – Pilotstudie fördert Artenvielfalt zutage. Aqua & Gas 100 (7/8), 36–42. pdf
- Alther R & Altermatt F (2021) Die unterirdische Flohkrebsfauna der Schweiz. Stalactite 71(1), 72–81. pdf