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Alexander Eiler

Alexander Eiler

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
7907
World Ranking
6305
National Ranking
99

Overview

Alexander Eiler is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily spans ecology, molecular biology, pollution, environmental chemistry, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's work focuses heavily on microbial community ecology and physiology, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, as well as topics related to methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, gut microbiota and health, and wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal.

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Laurent Fontaine
  • Dag O. Hessen
  • Peter Dörsch
  • Tom Andersen
  • Jing Wei

Alexander Eiler has published extensively in journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • ISME Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Representative recent papers include:

  • "Archaea in boreal Swedish lakes are diverse, dominated by Woesearchaeota and follow deterministic community assembly," 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • "Catchment properties as predictors of greenhouse gas concentrations across a gradient of boreal lakes," 2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • "Bacterial bioindicators enable biological status classification along the continental Danube river," 2023, Communications Biology
  • "Different Roles of Environmental Selection, Dispersal, and Drift in the Assembly of Intestinal Microbial Communities of Freshwater Fish With and Without a Stomach," 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Phosphorus Availability Promotes Bacterial DOC-Mineralization, but Not Cumulative CO2-Production," 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • A Guide to the Natural History of Freshwater Lake Bacteria

    Ryan J. Newton;Stuart E. Jones;Alexander Eiler;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Composition of freshwater bacterial communities associated with cyanobacterial blooms in four Swedish lakes

    Alexander Eiler;Stefan Bertilsson

  • Coherent dynamics and association networks among lake bacterioplankton taxa.

    Alexander Eiler;Friederike Heinrich;Stefan Bertilsson

  • Microbial community composition and diversity via 16S rRNA gene amplicons: evaluating the illumina platform.

    Lucas Sinclair;Omneya Ahmed Osman;Stefan Bertilsson;Alexander Eiler

  • Heterotrophic bacterial growth efficiency and community structure at different natural organic carbon concentrations.

    Alexander Eiler;Silke Langenheder;Stefan Bertilsson;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Bacterial diversity along a 2600 km river continuum

    Domenico Savio;Lucas Sinclair;Umer Z. Ijaz;Juraj Parajka

  • Inorganic and organic carbon biogeochemistry in the Gautami Godavari estuary (Andhra Pradesh, India) during pre-monsoon: the local impact of extensive mangrove forests.

    Steven Bouillon;Michel Frankignoulle;Frank Dehairs;Branko Velimirov

  • Environmental Influences on Vibrio Populations in Northern Temperate and Boreal Coastal Waters (Baltic and Skagerrak Seas)

    Alexander Eiler;Mona Johansson;Stefan Bertilsson

  • Flavobacteria Blooms in Four Eutrophic Lakes: Linking Population Dynamics of Freshwater Bacterioplankton to Resource Availability

    Alexander Eiler;Stefan Bertilsson

  • Evidence for the ubiquity of mixotrophic bacteria in the upper ocean: implications and consequences.

    Alexander Eiler

  • Determining indicator taxa across spatial and seasonal gradients in the Columbia River coastal margin

    Caroline S Fortunato;Alexander Eiler;Lydie Herfort;Joseph A Needoba

  • Distinct and diverse anaerobic bacterial communities in boreal lakes dominated by candidate division OD1

    Sari Peura;Alexander Eiler;Stefan Bertilsson;Hannu Nykänen

  • Unveiling Distribution Patterns of Freshwater Phytoplankton by a Next Generation Sequencing Based Approach

    Alexander Eiler;Stina Drakare;Stefan Bertilsson;Jakob Pernthaler

  • Disturbance induced decoupling between host genetics and composition of the associated microbiome

    Karl Mathias Wegner;Nils Volkenborn;Nils Volkenborn;Hannes Peter;Alexander Eiler

  • Host-Specificity and Dynamics in Bacterial Communities Associated with Bloom-Forming Freshwater Phytoplankton

    Inessa Lacativa Bagatini;Alexander Eiler;Stefan Bertilsson;Dag Klaveness

  • Growth response of Vibrio cholerae and other Vibrio spp. to cyanobacterial dissolved organic matter and temperature in brackish water

    Alexander Eiler;Carlos Gonzalez-Rey;Sophie Allen;Stefan Bertilsson

  • Connectivity to the surface determines diversity patterns in subsurface aquifers of the Fennoscandian shield.

    Valerie Hubalek;Xiaofen Wu;Alexander Eiler;Moritz Buck

  • Auxotrophy and intrapopulation complementary in the ‘interactome’ of a cultivated freshwater model community

    Sarahi L. Garcia;Moritz Buck;Katherine D. McMahon;Hans-Peter Grossart;Hans-Peter Grossart

  • Resistant Microbial Cooccurrence Patterns Inferred by Network Topology

    Sari Peura;Sari Peura;Stefan Bertilsson;Roger I. Jones;Alexander Eiler

  • Productivity and salinity structuring of the microplankton revealed by comparative freshwater metagenomics

    Alexander Eiler;Katarzyna Zaremba‐Niedzwiedzka;Manuel Martínez‐García;Manuel Martínez‐García;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Effects of predation stress and food ration on perch gut microbiota

    Yinghua Zha;Alexander Eiler;Alexander Eiler;Frank Johansson;Richard Svanbäck

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council
Eva S. Lindström
Eva S. Lindström Uppsala University
Katherine D. McMahon
Katherine D. McMahon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard Svanbäck
Richard Svanbäck Uppsala University
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Hannu Nykänen
Hannu Nykänen University of Eastern Finland
Silke Langenheder
Silke Langenheder Uppsala University
Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen University of Oslo
Lars J. Tranvik
Lars J. Tranvik Uppsala University

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