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Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

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

Weiterführende Informationen

Florian Altermatt

Florian Altermatt

Full Professor

Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich

Office: Y19-L-11
Phone: +41 44 635 4700

and

EAWAG: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Department of Aquatic Ecology
Überlandstrasse 133
8600 Dübendorf

Phone: +41 58 765 5592  
 
Florian Altermatt's' professorship is supported by and is part of the URPP on Global Change and Biodiversity