List of works by Ruben Sommaruga

23 Interactions between solar ultraviolet radiation and climatic warming in alpine lakes

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Abundance, morphology and distribution of planktonic virus-like particles in two high-mountain lakes

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Abundances, identity, and growth state of actinobacteria in mountain lakes of different UV transparency

scientific article

Alpine glacier-fed turbid lakes are discontinuous cold polymictic rather than dimictic.

scientific article

Alteration of chromophoric dissolved organic matter by solar UV radiation causes rapid changes in bacterial community composition

scientific article

An evaluation of methods to study the gut bacterial community composition of freshwater zooplankton

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An experimental test of the symbiosis specificity between the ciliate Paramecium bursaria and strains of the unicellular green alga Chlorella

scientific article

An in situ enclosure experiment to test the solar UVB impact on plankton in a high-altitude mountain lake. I. Lack of effect on phytoplankton species composition and growth

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An in situ enclosure experiment to test the solar UVB impact on plankton in a high-altitude mountain lake. II. Effects on the microbial food web

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An isotopic analysis of the phytoplankton–zooplankton link in a highly eutrophic tropical reservoir dominated by cyanobacteria

scholarly article by Yeshiemebet Major et al published 21 February 2017 in Journal of Plankton Research

Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes

scientific article published on 6 December 2023

Are freshwater mixotrophic ciliates less sensitive to solar ultraviolet radiation than heterotrophic ones?

scientific article published on 17 March 2011

Are viruses important in the plankton of highly turbid glacier-fed lakes?

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

Assessment of climate change effects on mountain ecosystems through a cross-site analysis in the Alps and Apennines

scholarly article by M. Rogora et al published 15 May 2018 in Science of the Total Environment

At the edge and on the top: molecular identification and ecology of Daphnia dentifera and D. longispina in high-altitude Asian lakes

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Away from darkness: a review on the effects of solar radiation on heterotrophic bacterioplankton activity

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

Bacterial 'cosmopolitanism' and importance of local environmental factors for community composition in remote high-altitude lakes.

scientific article

Bacterial Communities Associated With Spherical Macrocolonies

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Bacterial diversity and composition during rain events with and without Saharan dust influence reaching a high mountain lake in the Alps

scientific article published on December 2014

Bacterioplankton composition in tropical high-elevation lakes of the Andean plateau.

scientific article published in March 2018

Blooms of single bacterial species in a coastal lagoon of the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.

scientific article

Body distribution and source of mycosporine-like amino acids in the cyclopoid copepod Cyclops abyssorum tatricus

CILIATE-SYMBIONT SPECIFICITY OF FRESHWATER ENDOSYMBIOTIC CHLORELLA (TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE, CHLOROPHYTA)(1).

scientific article published in February 2008

Changes in bacterioplankton community structure during early lake ontogeny resulting from the retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet

scientific article published on 31 October 2017

Ciliate community structure and interactions within the planktonic food web in two alpine lakes of contrasting transparency.

scientific article

Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

scientific article published on 03 June 2021

Climate-related changes of soil characteristics affect bacterial community composition and function of high altitude and latitude lakes

scientific article

Concentrations of sunscreens and antioxidant pigments in ArcticCalanusspp. in relation to ice cover, ultraviolet radiation, and the phytoplankton spring bloom

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Constitutive and UV-inducible synthesis of photoprotective compounds (carotenoids and mycosporines) by freshwater yeasts

scientific article published on 2 December 2003

Contrasting ability to take up leucine and thymidine among freshwater bacterial groups: implications for bacterial production measurements

scientific article published on 27 August 2009

Contrasting diurnal patterns in antioxidant capacities, but not in expression of stress protein genes among copepod populations from clear versus glacially fed alpine and subalpine lakes

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Contrasting effects of ultraviolet radiation on the growth efficiency of freshwater bacteria

scientific article published on March 2011

Contribution of mycosporine-like amino acids and colored dissolved and particulate matter to sea ice optical properties and ultraviolet attenuation

scientific article published on March 2010

Copepods in turbid shallow soda lakes accumulate unexpected high levels of carotenoids.

scientific article

Corrigendum: Are viruses important in the plankton of highly turbid glacier-fed lakes?

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

Crash of a population of the marine heterotrophic flagellate Cafeteria roenbergensis by viral infection

scientific article

Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Differences in UV transparency and thermal structure between alpine and subalpine lakes: implications for organisms

scientific article (publication date: September 2009)

Differences in food web structure and composition between new and nearby older lakes in West Greenland suggest succession trajectories driven by glacier retreat

scientific article published on 31 March 2023

Differential effect of algal- and soil-derived dissolved organic matter on alpine lake bacterial community composition and activity

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Differential sunlight sensitivity of picophytoplankton from surface Mediterranean Coastal Waters

scientific article published on April 2005

Differential utilization patterns of dissolved organic phosphorus compounds by heterotrophic bacteria in two mountain lakes

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentration and Phytoplankton Biomass in High-Mountain Lakes of the Austrian Alps: Potential Effect of Climatic Warming on UV Underwater Attenuation

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Dissolved organic monomer partitioning among bacterial groups in two oligotrophic lakes.

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Distribution and UV protection strategies of zooplankton in clear and glacier-fed alpine lakes

scientific article

Dust inputs and bacteria influence dissolved organic matter in clear alpine lakes.

scientific article

Effect of UV Radiation on the Bacterivory of a Heterotrophic Nanoflagellate

scientific article

Effect of UV Radiation on the Bacterivory of a Heterotrophic Nanoflagellate

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Effect of natural sunlight on bacterial activity and differential sensitivity of natural bacterioplankton groups in northwestern Mediterranean coastal waters

scientific article

Environment not dispersal limitation drives clonal composition of Arctic Daphnia in a recently deglaciated area

scientific article

Escape from UV threats in zooplankton: a cocktail of behavior and protective pigmentation.

scientific article published in August 2007

Factors influencing bacterial dynamics along a transect from supraglacial runoff to proglacial lakes of a high Arctic glacier [corrected].

scientific article

Factors influencing bacterial dynamics along a transect from supraglacial runoff to proglacial lakes of a high Arctic glacieri

scientific article published in 2007

Factors involved in the distribution pattern of ciliates in the water column of a transparent alpine lake ⬇️

scientific article published on March 2011

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Fish navigation of large dams emerges from their modulation of flow field experience

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Methane fluxes show consistent temperature dependence across microbial to ecosystem scales

article published in 2014

Global data set of long-term summertime vertical temperature profiles in 153 lakes

scientific article

High diversity of protistan plankton communities in remote high mountain lakes in the European Alps and the Himalayan mountains

scientific article

Identifying factors that affect mountain lake sensitivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across multiple scales

scientific article

Impact of TiO₂ nanoparticles on freshwater bacteria from three Swedish lakes

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Importance of mixotrophic flagellates during the ice-free season in lakes located along an elevational gradient

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Inhibitory effect of solar radiation on thymidine and leucine incorporation by freshwater and marine bacterioplankton.

scientific article published on November 1997

Interactive effects of solar radiation and dissolved organic matter on bacterial activity and community structure

scientific article published on September 2007

Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: impacts in alpine lakes and streams

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Lakes as sentinels of climate change

scientific article

Large Differences in Bacterial Community Composition among Three Nearby Extreme Waterbodies of the High Andean Plateau.

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

Large-scale invasion of unicellular eukaryotic genomes by integrating DNA viruses

scientific article published in 2023

Larval UV exposure impairs adult immune function through a trade-off with larval investment in cuticular melanin

scientific article published in 2015

Legislation restricts research in Uruguay

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Living at the border: A community and single-cell assessment of lake bacterioneuston activity.

scientific article

Long-term trends of chemical and modelled photochemical parameters in four Alpine lakes

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Microbial eukaryote plankton communities of high-mountain lakes from three continents exhibit strong biogeographic patterns.

scientific article

Microplastics modify the toxicity of glyphosate on Daphnia magna

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Mountain lakes: Eyes on global environmental change

scientific article published in July 2019

Multifactorial nature of rotifer water layer preferences in an oligotrophic lake

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Multiple strategies of bloom-forming Microcystis to minimize damage by solar ultraviolet radiation in surface waters.

scientific article published on 2 September 2008

Mycosporine-glutaminol-glucoside, a UV-absorbing compound of twoRhodotorula yeast species

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Mycosporine-like amino acids in the zooxanthella-ciliate symbiosis Maristentor dinoferus

scientific article published on 19 April 2006

Mycosporines from freshwater yeasts: a trophic cul-de-sac?

scientific article

Mycosporines in carotenogenic yeasts

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Nanociliates of the order Prostomatida: Their relevance in the microbial food web of a mesotrophic lake

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Negative consequences of glacial turbidity for the survival of freshwater planktonic heterotrophic flagellates

scientific article published on 17 February 2014

Permanent presence of grazing-resistant bacteria in a hypertrophic lake

scientific article

Perspectives and research on environmental effects of ultraviolet radiation.

scientific article published on 12 August 2009

Phenotypic and molecular responses of copepods to <scp>UV</scp> radiation stress in a clear versus a glacially turbid lake

scientific article published in 2022

Phosphate and ATP uptake by lake bacteria: does taxonomical identity matter?

scientific article published on 30 April 2016

Photo-oxidative stress in symbiotic and aposymbiotic strains of the ciliate Paramecium bursaria.

scientific article published on 6 June 2007

Photoalteration of macrophyte-derived chromophoric dissolved organic matter induces growth of single bacterial populations in a coastal lagoon

Phylogenetic distribution of fungal mycosporines within the Pucciniomycotina (Basidiomycota).

scientific article

Polinton-like viruses are abundant in aquatic ecosystems

scientific article published on 12 January 2021

Preferential accumulation of carotenoids rather than of mycosporine-like amino acids in copepods from high altitude Himalayan lakes

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Rapid evolution of antioxidant defence in a natural population of Daphnia magna

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

Scientists' warning of threats to mountains

scientific article published in 2022

Seasonal and ontogenetic changes of mycosporine-like amino acids in planktonic organisms from an alpine lake

scientific article

Seasonal patterns in the sunlight sensitivity of bacterioplankton from Mediterranean surface coastal waters

scientific article published on 02 December 2011

Seasonal plasticity in photoprotection modulates UV-induced gene expression in copepods from a clear lake

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Seasonality in UV transparency of an alpine lake is associated to changes in phytoplankton biomass

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Sediment oxygen demand in man-made Lake Ton-Ton (Uruguay)

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Shifts in diversity and function of lake bacterial communities upon glacier retreat

scientific article

Sources of mycosporine-like amino acids in planktonic Chlorella-bearing ciliates (Ciliophora)

scientific article

Spatiotemporal drivers of dissolved organic matter in high alpine lakes: Role of Saharan dust inputs and bacterial activity.

scholarly article

Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridization in tropical eels

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Stoichiometry of natural bacterial assemblages from lakes located across an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Study on the Decomposition ofPistia stratiotes L. (Araceae) in Cisne Reservoir, Uruguay

Suitability of flow cytometry for estimating bacterial biovolume in natural plankton samples: comparison with microscopy data

scientific article

Sunlight modulates the relative importance of heterotrophic bacteria and picophytoplankton in DMSP-sulphur uptake

scientific article published on 29 September 2011

Symbiotic ciliates receive protection against UV damage from their algae: a test with Paramecium bursaria and Chlorella.

scientific article published on 4 February 2009

Temperature effects on the acidity of remote alpine lakes

scientific article published in Nature

Temporal changes and altitudinal distribution of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs in mountain lakes

scientific article

The bacterial community composition of the surface microlayer in a high mountain lake

scientific article published on 25 May 2010

The bacterioplankton of Lake Taihu, China: abundance, biomass, and production

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The balance between deterministic and stochastic processes in structuring lake bacterioplankton community over time

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

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.

scientific article published on May 2015

The influence of predator community composition on photoprotective traits of copepods

scientific article published in 2022

The role of solar UV radiation in the ecology of alpine lakes.

scientific article

Treeline displacement may affect lake dissolved organic matter processing at high latitudes and altitudes

scientific article published on 26 March 2024

UV radiation changes algal stoichiometry but does not have cascading effects on a marine food chain

UV responses of Lolium perenne raised along a latitudinal gradient across Europe: a filtration study

scientific article published on 7 March 2012

UV-induced Cell Damage is Species-specific among Aquatic Phagotrophic Protists

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

UV-induced DNA damage in Cyclops abyssorum tatricus populations from clear and turbid alpine lakes.

scientific article

Ultraviolet Radiation in a High Mountain Lake of the Austrian Alps: Air and Underwater Measurements

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Viruses in the plankton of freshwater and saline Antarctic lakes

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Water residence time as a driving force of zooplankton structure and succession

article published in 2007

When glaciers and ice sheets melt: consequences for planktonic organisms

scientific article

Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

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