Roman Alther

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 783 citations indexed

About

Roman Alther is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roman Alther has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 783 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 9 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Roman Alther's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (17 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (14 papers) and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (9 papers). Roman Alther is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (17 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (14 papers) and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (9 papers). Roman Alther collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Slovenia and France. Roman Alther's co-authors include Florian Altermatt, Elvira Mächler, Emanuel A. Fronhofer, Cene Fišer, Owen L. Petchey, Katherine Horgan, Frank Pennekamp, Mikael Pontarp, Andrea Tabi and Thomas M. Massie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Roman Alther

30 papers receiving 769 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability

2018 368 citations Frank Pennekamp, Mikael Pontarp et al. Nature profile →
The global human impact on biodiversity

2025 28 citations François Keck, Tianna Peller et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Roman Alther

ECOLO

NLC

GPC

EEBS

Thomas Galewski France

Jonas Jourdan Germany

Yeon Jae Bae South Korea

Amanda L. Subalusky United States

Miguel G. Matias Portugal

Cristina Stenert Brazil

Anne Charpentier France

Pedro P. Garcillán Mexico

Maria Lúcia Lorini Brazil

Annabelle Cuttelod United Kingdom

Thomas Galewski France

Roman Alther

466 ×0.9

ECOLO

164 ×0.7

NLC

226 ×1.4

GPC

138 ×1.0

EEBS

61 ×0.5

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Countries citing papers authored by Roman Alther

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roman Alther

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roman Alther

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roman Alther. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roman Alther based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Roman Alther. Roman Alther is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Delić, Teo, Špela Borko, Roman Alther, et al.. (2025). Phylogenetic Origin of Morphologically Cryptic Species Shapes Co‐Occurrence and Sympatry Patterns. Freshwater Biology. 70(2). 1 indexed citations

Keck, François, Tianna Peller, Roman Alther, et al.. (2025). The global human impact on biodiversity. Nature. 641(8062). 395–400. 28 indexed citations breakdown →

Vivien, Régis, Patrick Martin, Jan Pawłowski, & Roman Alther. (2025). Adapting practices to accelerate the scientific description of invertebrate cryptic species. Biology Letters. 21(10). 20250385–20250385.

Alther, Roman, et al.. (2024). Systematic and highly resolved modelling of biodiversity in inherently rare groundwater amphipods. Journal of Biogeography. 51(11). 2094–2108. 2 indexed citations

Alther, Roman, et al.. (2024). Terrestrial land use signals on groundwater fauna beyond current protection buffers. Ecological Applications. 34(8). e3040–e3040. 1 indexed citations

Alther, Roman, et al.. (2024). Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient. Ecography. 2024(8). 5 indexed citations

Alther, Roman, et al.. (2024). Temporal consistency and spatial variability in detection: implications for monitoring of macroinvertebrates from shallow groundwater aquifers. Subterranean Biology. 49. 139–161.

Martin, Patrick, et al.. (2023). Haplotaxis gordioides (Hartmann in Oken, 1819) (Annelida, Clitellata) as a sub-cosmopolitan species: a commonly held view challenged by DNA barcoding. Zoosymposia. 23. 4 indexed citations

Borko, Špela, Roman Alther, Jean‐François Flot, et al.. (2023). Phylogenetic structure and molecular species delimitation hint a complex evolutionary history in an Alpine endemic Niphargus clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 306. 27–36. 3 indexed citations

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Couton, Marjorie, et al.. (2023). Integrating citizen science and environmental DNA metabarcoding to study biodiversity of groundwater amphipods in Switzerland. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 18097–18097. 13 indexed citations

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Queiroz, Luiz Jardim de, Florian Altermatt, Roman Alther, et al.. (2022). Climate, immigration and speciation shape terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity in the European Alps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1980). 20221020–20221020. 19 indexed citations

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Alther, Roman, Emanuel A. Fronhofer, & Florian Altermatt. (2021). Dispersal behaviour and riverine network connectivity shape the genetic diversity of freshwater amphipod metapopulations. Molecular Ecology. 30(24). 6551–6565. 10 indexed citations

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Tabi, Andrea, Frank Pennekamp, Florian Altermatt, et al.. (2020). Species multidimensional effects explain idiosyncratic responses of communities to environmental change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(8). 1036–1043. 23 indexed citations

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Alther, Roman, et al.. (2020). Reiche Grundwasserfauna. Pilotstudie fördert Artenvielfalt zutage. DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)). 36–42. 1 indexed citations

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Altermatt, Florian, et al.. (2019). Amphipoda (Flohkrebse) der Schweiz. Checkliste, Bestimmung und Atlas. DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)). 7 indexed citations

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Mächler, Elvira, Chelsea J. Little, Roman Alther, et al.. (2019). Assessing different components of diversity across a river network using eDNA. Environmental DNA. 1(3). 290–301. 66 indexed citations

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Falniowski, Andrzej, Simona Prevorčnik, Teo Delić, et al.. (2019). Monophyly of the Moitessieriidae Bourguignat, 1863 (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea). Folia Malacologica. 27(1). 61–70. 7 indexed citations

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Alther, Roman, et al.. (2019). Macroinvertebrate diversity and rarity in non-glacial Alpine streams. Aquatic Sciences. 81(3). 14 indexed citations

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Pennekamp, Frank, Mikael Pontarp, Andrea Tabi, et al.. (2018). Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability. Nature. 563(7729). 109–112. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

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Altermatt, Florian, Roman Alther, Cene Fišer, et al.. (2014). Diversity and Distribution of Freshwater Amphipod Species in Switzerland (Crustacea: Amphipoda). PLoS ONE. 9(10). e110328–e110328. 60 indexed citations

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