Gone with the #wind: 🌬️the #fireweed 🌸(Epilobium angustifolium) produces >100,000 #seeds that are passively transported over many kilometers. As a pioneer species it colonises bare ground, such as after a fire🔥and can form dense stands.
Профиль
Florian Altermatt
Профиль VivelyFull Professor of Aquatic Ecology University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social | Kuratorium Forum Biodiversity | Founding Director https://biodiversitaet.uzh.ch/en.html | all & beyond #biodiversity, #eDNA & #AquaticEcology | Like=interesting www.altermattlab.ch
#Cross-#ecosystem #biodiversity action is systemically #overlooked in biodiversity #policy and treaties⚖️: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🌐 🌍 🎯 🦐 🍃 #IPBES #BiodiversityPolicy #GBF #KunmingMontreal 🧵1/8
#Postdoc #Position opening up in my group: Developing Analytical #Pipelines and #Analyses to Survey #Invasive Alien #Species in Aquatic Systems using #eDNA (2 years) 🧬 📈 ❗ 🦐 🦀 🐠 🌍🌐❗ #JobOpening 🎯 apply.refline.ch/673277/1364/... 📍 Apply now & thx for spreading the word (deadline Aug 14th)
#Postdoc #position (3 years) in spatial #genomics of aquatic #invertebrates opening up in my group. 🧬 🦐 🥼 🧑💻 ❗ More info: apply.refline.ch/673277/1363/... The project aims to establish & analyse #genomic #diversity of aquatic invertebrates (EPT & Amphipods) in a spatially explicit approach. 🌍 🌐 📈
Unified analysis of #global 🌐 🌍 #riverine #eDNA 🧬 reveals common associations of #fish #biodiversity 🐟 🐠 with drainage characteristics. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/6
Interested in #SpeciesDistributionModelling? Then this is of interest to you: The N-SDM software has been reengineered with extended features for nested #species #distribution modelling. #SDM Just out in Ecography Journal: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #AntoineAdde et al. 🌍🌐
A year ago we published our perspective "Utilizing aquatic #environmental #DNA 🧬 to address #global 🌍 🌐 #biodiversity 🦐 🐟 🦠 targets 🎯 " in Nature Reviews Biodiversity: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/10🧵
Open #PhD #position on “Projecting the #human #impact on #biodiversity” (fully funded 4 years position) in my group @University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social 🌐 🌍 📈 🦀 🐟 🌳 All #details & application instructions 🎯: apply.refline.ch/673277/1356/... ❗Thx for spreading the word / apply now!