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h-index: 60
Works: 202
Citations: 12K

Most-cited papers

Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes
Stephen F. Jane, Gretchen J. A. Hansen, Benjamin M. Kraemer, P. Leavitt +40 more
2021Nature612 citations Open access
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Mountain lakes: Eyes on global environmental change
K. Moser, J. Baron, J. Brahney, I. Oleksy +16 more
2019Global and Planetary Change316 citations Open access
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Assessment of climate change effects on mountain ecosystems through a cross-site analysis in the Alps and Apennines.
M. Rogora, L. Frate, M. Carranza, M. Freppaz +34 more
2018Science of the Total Environment235 citations Open access
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Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat
Benjamin M. Kraemer, Rachel M. Pilla, R. Woolway, O. Anneville +33 more
2021Nature Climate Change164 citations Open access
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When glaciers and ice sheets melt: consequences for planktonic organisms
R. Sommaruga
2015Journal of Plankton Research139 citations Open access
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Shifts in diversity and function of lake bacterial communities upon glacier retreat
H. Peter, R. Sommaruga
2016The ISME Journal119 citations Open access
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Scientists' warning of threats to mountains.
D. Schmeller, D. Urbach, K. Bates, J. Catalan +18 more
2022Science of the Total Environment117 citations Open access
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Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes
Rachel M. Pilla, C. Williamson, B. Adamovich, R. Adrian +54 more
2020Scientific Reports117 citations Open access
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Away from darkness: a review on the effects of solar radiation on heterotrophic bacterioplankton activity
C. Ruiz-González, R. Simó, R. Sommaruga, J. Gasol
2013Frontiers in Microbiology108 citations Open access
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Microbial eukaryote plankton communities of high-mountain lakes from three continents exhibit strong biogeographic patterns
S. Filker, R. Sommaruga, I. Vila, T. Stoeck
2016Molecular Ecology99 citations Open access
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Microplastics modify the toxicity of glyphosate on Daphnia magna.
M. Zocchi, R. Sommaruga
2019Science of the Total Environment95 citations
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Bacterial diversity and composition during rain events with and without Saharan dust influence reaching a high mountain lake in the Alps
H. Peter, Paul Hörtnagl, I. Reche, R. Sommaruga
2014Environmental Microbiology Reports91 citations Open access
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The balance between deterministic and stochastic processes in structuring lake bacterioplankton community over time
P. Aguilar, R. Sommaruga
2020Molecular Ecology81 citations Open access
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Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridization in tropical eels
J. M. Barth, Chrysoula Gubili, M. Matschiner, O. K. Tørresen +7 more
2019Nature Communications76 citations Open access
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Climate warming increases vertical and seasonal water temperature differences and inter-annual variability in a mountain lake
G. Niedrist, R. Psenner, R. Sommaruga
2018Climatic Change74 citations Open access
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Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams
J. Elser, Chenxi Wu, Angélica L. González, D. Shain +24 more
2020Global Change Biology67 citations Open access
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High diversity of protistan plankton communities in remote high mountain lakes in the European Alps and the Himalayan mountains
Barbara Kammerlander, H. Breiner, S. Filker, R. Sommaruga +2 more
2015FEMS Microbiology Ecology65 citations Open access
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Larval UV exposure impairs adult immune function through a trade-off with larval investment in cuticular melanin
Sara Debecker, R. Sommaruga, Tim Maes, R. Stoks
201558 citations Open access
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Large-scale invasion of unicellular eukaryotic genomes by integrating DNA viruses
C. Bellas, T. Hackl, Marie-Sophie Plakolb, Anna Koslová +2 more
2023Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America54 citations Open access
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Avocado Production: Water Footprint and Socio‐economic Implications
R. Sommaruga, Honor May Eldridge
2020EuroChoices54 citations Open access
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Polinton-like viruses are abundant in aquatic ecosystems
C. Bellas, R. Sommaruga
2021Microbiome53 citations Open access
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Negative consequences of glacial turbidity for the survival of freshwater planktonic heterotrophic flagellates
R. Sommaruga, Georg Kandolf
2014Scientific Reports45 citations Open access
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Impact of TiO₂ nanoparticles on freshwater bacteria from three Swedish lakes.
J. Farkas, H. Peter, T. Ciesielski, K. Thomas +5 more
2015Science of the Total Environment44 citations Open access
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Seasonal patterns in the sunlight sensitivity of bacterioplankton from Mediterranean surface coastal waters.
C. Ruiz-González, Thomas Lefort, M. Galí, M. M. Sala +3 more
2012FEMS Microbiology Ecology44 citations Open access
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Climate‐related changes of soil characteristics affect bacterial community composition and function of high altitude and latitude lakes
Carina Rofner, H. Peter, N. Catalán, Fabian Drewes +2 more
2016Global Change Biology42 citations Open access
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Temporal Changes and Altitudinal Distribution of Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs in Mountain Lakes
Zuzana Čuperová, E. Holzer, I. Salka, R. Sommaruga +1 more
2013Applied and Environmental Microbiology42 citations Open access
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Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes
Abigail S. L. Lewis, M. Lau, Stephen F. Jane, K. Rose +18 more
2023Global Change Biology41 citations Open access
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Large Differences in Bacterial Community Composition among Three Nearby Extreme Waterbodies of the High Andean Plateau
P. Aguilar, E. Acosta, C. Dorador, R. Sommaruga
2016Frontiers in Microbiology39 citations Open access
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UV-induced DNA damage in Cyclops abyssorum tatricus populations from clear and turbid alpine lakes
B. Tartarotti, Nadine Saul, S. Chakrabarti, Florian Trattner +2 more
2013Journal of Plankton Research37 citations Open access
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Food Web Complexity of High Mountain Lakes is Largely Affected by Glacial Retreat
R. Tiberti, F. Buscaglia, C. Callieri, M. Rogora +2 more
2019Ecosystems35 citations
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Treeline displacement may affect lake dissolved organic matter processing at high latitudes and altitudes
N. Catalán, Carina Rofner, C. Verpoorter, M. T. Perez +4 more
2024Nature Communications33 citations Open access
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A bacterium from a mountain lake harvests light using both proton-pumping xanthorhodopsins and bacteriochlorophyll-based photosystems
K. Kopejtka, Jürgen Tomasch, D. Kaftan, A. Gardiner +7 more
2022Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America30 citations Open access
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The contribution of mycosporine-like amino acids, chromophoric dissolved organic matter and particles to the UV protection of sea-ice organisms in the Baltic Sea
J. Piiparinen, Sara Enberg, Janne-Markus Rintala, R. Sommaruga +3 more
2015Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences30 citations
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Alpine glacier-fed turbid lakes are discontinuous cold polymictic rather than dimictic
H. Peter, R. Sommaruga
2017INLAND WATERS29 citations Open access
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Distribution and UV protection strategies of zooplankton in clear and glacier-fed alpine lakes
B. Tartarotti, Florian Trattner, D. Remias, Nadine Saul +2 more
2017Scientific Reports29 citations Open access
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Ciliate community structure and interactions within the planktonic food web in two alpine lakes of contrasting transparency
Barbara Kammerlander, K. Koinig, E. Rott, R. Sommaruga +3 more
2016Freshwater Biology29 citations Open access
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Bacterioplankton composition in tropical high-elevation lakes of the Andean plateau
P. Aguilar, C. Dorador, I. Vila, R. Sommaruga
2018FEMS Microbiology Ecology28 citations Open access
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Characterization of the Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Sphingomonas sp. AAP5
K. Kopejtka, Yong-Hui Zeng, D. Kaftan, V. Selyanin +4 more
2021Microorganisms25 citations Open access
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Environment not dispersal limitation drives clonal composition of Arctic Daphnia in a recently deglaciated area
T. Haileselasie, J. Mergeay, L. Weider, R. Sommaruga +6 more
2016Molecular Ecology25 citations Open access
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Changes in bacterioplankton community structure during early lake ontogeny resulting from the retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet
H. Peter, E. Jeppesen, L. De Meester, R. Sommaruga
2017The ISME Journal23 citations Open access
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Water transparency affects the survival of the medusa stage of the invasive freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii
L. Caputo, P. Huovinen, R. Sommaruga, I. Gómez
2018Hydrobiologia22 citations
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An isotopic analysis of the phytoplankton–zooplankton link in a highly eutrophic tropical reservoir dominated by cyanobacteria
Yeshiemebet Major, D. Kifle, G. Niedrist, R. Sommaruga
201722 citations
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The genus Cyclops (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) in Europe
M. Krajíček, J. Fott, Maria Rosa Miracle, M. Ventura +3 more
201622 citations
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Differential utilization patterns of dissolved organic phosphorus compounds by heterotrophic bacteria in two mountain lakes
Carina Rofner, R. Sommaruga, M. T. Perez
2016FEMS Microbiology Ecology22 citations Open access
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At the edge and on the top: molecular identification and ecology of Daphnia dentifera and D. longispina in high-altitude Asian lakes
M. Möst, A. Petrusek, R. Sommaruga, P. Juračka +3 more
2013Hydrobiologia22 citations Open access
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Temporal changes in the dominance of major planktonic bacterial groups in an alpine lake: discrepancy with their contribution to bacterial production
M. T. Perez, R. Sommaruga
201122 citations
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Atmospheric deposition and precipitation are important predictors of inorganic nitrogen export to streams from forest and grassland watersheds: a large-scale data synthesis
P. Templer, J. L. Harrison, F. Pilotto, A. Flores-Díaz +28 more
2022Biogeochemistry20 citations Open access
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Identifying factors that affect mountain lake sensitivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across multiple scales.
B. T. Burpee, J. Saros, L. Nanus, J. Baron +14 more
2021Water Research20 citations
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Simultaneous Presence of Bacteriochlorophyll and Xanthorhodopsin Genes in a Freshwater Bacterium
K. Kopejtka, Jürgen Tomasch, Yong-Hui Zeng, V. Selyanin +10 more
2020mSystems20 citations Open access
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Rapid evolution of antioxidant defence in a natural population of Daphnia magna
S. Oexle, Mieke Jansen, Kevin Pauwels, R. Sommaruga +2 more
2016Journal of Evolutionary Biology20 citations
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