Contributi ai media
- l’environnement “Eaux souterraines : une richesse insoupçonnée” da maggio 2024 (Link)
- NZZ am Sonntag “Die Löwen des Grundwassers” vom 05.05.2024 (Link)
- Der Landbote, Winterthur “Die Flohkrebse im Töss-Grundwasser sind ein gutes Zeichen” vom 12.06.2023 (Link)
- Eawag Filmbeitrag “Grundwasserfauna Schweiz” vom 27.01.2023 (Link)
- Nano Filmbeitrag “Ökosystem Grundwasser – Unerforschter Lebensraum” vom 10.03.2022 (Link)
Articoli scientifici
- 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