Florian Altermatt
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Research interests
Community, metapopulation and metacommunity ecology; spatial dynamics; biodiversity-ecosystem functioning; species interactions; protist microcosms and Lepidoptera
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Education and professional positions
| 2023 - present | Full Professor of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2023 - present | Directorate Member, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 2019 - present | President of the Forum Biodiversity, Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), Bern, Switzerland |
| 2011 - present | Research Group Leader, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 2018 - 2023 | Associate Professor of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2014 - 2018 | SNSF Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2012 - 2014 | Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2009 - 2010 | Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, USA |
| 2007 - 2009 | Scientific collaborator at Hintermann & Weber AG, Reinach, Switzerland |
| 2005 - 2007 | Research assistant, Institute of Zoology, University of Basel, |
| 2004 - 2007 | Ph.D., University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 2004 - 2005 | Research assistant, Institute of Ecology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland |
| 1998 - 2004 | Diploma in Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland |
Selected publications
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- Peller T., Guichard F., Altermatt F. (2023). The significance of partial migration for food web and ecosystem dynamics. Ecology Letters, 26(1):3-22. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14143
- Ho HC., Brodersen J., Gossner MM., Graham CH., Kaeser S., Chacko MR., Seehausen O., Zimmermann NE, Pellissier L., Altermatt F. (2022). Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use. Nat Commun 13, 6415 (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34132-9
- Luo M., Wang S., Saavedra S., Ebert D., Altermatt F. (2022). Multispecies coexistence in fragmented landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(37):e2201503119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201503119
- Carraro L., Mächler E., Wüthrich R., Altermatt F. (2020). Environmental DNA allows upscaling spatial patterns of biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. Nature Communications, 11:3585. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17337-81038/s41467-020-17337-8
- Gounand I., Harvey E., Little CJ., Altermatt F. (2018). Meta-ecosystems 2.0: rooting the theory into the field. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 33(1):36-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.10.006
- Little CJ., Altermatt F. (2018). Species turnover and invasion of dominant freshwater invertebrates alter biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship. Ecological Monographs 88: 461–480.
- Deiner K., Fronhofer EA., Mächler E., Walser J-C., Altermatt F. (2016). Environmental DNA reveals that rivers are conveyer belts of biodiversity information. Nature Communications, 7:12544. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12544
- Fronhofer EA., Altermatt F. (2015). Eco-evolutionary feedbacks during experimental range expansions. Nature Communications, 6:6844. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7844
- Giometto A., Carrara F., Rinaldo A., Altermatt F. (2014). Emerging predictable features of replicated biological invasion fronts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: 297–301. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321167110
- Pearse I., Altermatt F. (2013) Predicting novel trophic interactions in a non-native world. Ecology Letters 16: 1088-1094. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12143
- Carrara F., Altermatt F., Rodriguez-Iturbe I., Rinaldo A. (2012). Dendritic connectivity controls biodiversity patterns in experimental metacommunities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 5761–5766. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119651109
