🚨 PHD JOB ALERT!🚨 Open PhD position with myself & Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social at University of Zurich/Eawag in #modelling #spatial processes in #river networks, working at the interface between #hydrology and #ecology! Deadline: Jun 30 👉 All info and applications: apply.refline.ch/673277/1060/pu…

Interested in how #foodweb properties change across a #river network? Come to my #ASLO2023 talk today at 5:30PM in Sala Ibiza B (session CS046 - Models and modelling)!

Wanted: #eDNA Data and Collaborators!#RT #Global #meta-analysis to assess🐟#biodiversity patterns. We search #collaborators providing #fish #eDNA #datasets If interested in joining Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social, Yan Zhang, Loïc Pellissier & #XiaoweiZhang, read on & contact us! 🧵1/3

🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 Open postdoc position (2y) with myself & Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social at University of Zurich/Eawag in #modelling #spatial processes in #river networks, working at the interface between #hydrology and #ecology! Deadline: Sep 25 Info and applications: apply.refline.ch/673277/1090/pu…

Still about two weeks to apply! 👇

Freshwater fish diversity in the western Amazon basin shaped by Andean uplift since the Late Cretaceous nature.com/articles/s4155…

🔴 Fresh out of the press NatureEcoEvo! Great work led by Lydian Boschman nature.com/articles/s4155… ➡️We combine paleo river networks & gen3sis ecoevo model ➡️We show that Andean 🏔️ building & consequent river captures lead to exceptional 🐟 richness in western Amazonia

New article: Technical note: Seamless extraction and analysis of river networks in R doi.org/10.5194/hess-2…

🔴 Just published HESS Journal: Technical note introducing 'rivnet', an #rstats package to seamlessly extract and analyze #river networks: hess.copernicus.org/articles/27/37… Also, check out rivnet on #CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/r…

Out now on #BioRxiv: #Terrestrial land cover shapes #fish #biodiversity in major #subtropical #rivers biorxiv.org/content/10.110… combining #eDNA #Biodiversity🐟🧬 and #RemoteSensing 🛰️ of #LULC 🟦🟩to get spatial characteristic and extent of human effects on rivers. 🧵1/4

🗞️ Fresh out of the press! Our manuscript introducing the #eDITH #Rstats package is out now Methods in Ecology and Evolution : doi.org/10.1111/2041-2… Let's bring #river #eDNA data to the next level! Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social

#eDITH: an #Rstats package to model transport of environmental DNA in #river #networks. Allows to spatially project #eDNA-based #biodiversity estimates across river networks /w minimal prior information. 🧬🐟🌊🦠🐞 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… lucarraro.github.io/eDITH/ 1/4🧵

Environmental DNA: The next chapter 🧬🔬🐟🧬🦠🧬🦋🧬 Molecular tools, incl. #eDNA, have become an indispensable part of #ecology & #biodiversity sciences. What is needed to concretely move the field forward? Retrospect & outlook out now Molecular Ecology doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… a🧵

Just out The Royal Society special issue: Measuring state of aquatic environments using #eDNA. 🔬🧬🐞 We demonstrate how to spatially upscale #ecological #indices based on #eDNA, allowing accurate evaluation at #catchment scale. #Aquatic #Biodiversity royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 1/n

Happy to share my first review/opinion piece. Last year, biologists and hydrologists met at #eDNA4Hydro workshop in Bern, Switzerland to learn from each other and explore the intersection of our fields via eDNA. What we found was a new flow path (1/n) doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1…