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Overview

Boris Sket was affiliated with the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and contributed to research primarily within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work spanned several subfields, including Ecology, Paleontology, Oceanography, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research focused on a range of topics, prominently:

  • Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations

Their recent publications included:

  • "Past climate cooling promoted global dispersal of amphipods from Tian Shan montane lakes to circumboreal lakes" (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • "A collaborative backbone resource for comparative studies of subterranean evolution: The World Asellidae database" (2023, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • "Ecophysiological responses of two closely related epigean and hypogean Niphargus species to hypoxia and increased temperature: Do they differ?" (2021, International Journal of Speleology)
  • "Phylogenetic relationships of Sphaeromides Dollfus, 1897 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) and some related taxa, with new considerations about Trogloaega Brian, 1923" (2021, Journal of Natural History)
  • "A corrigendum to the phylogeny of the family Gammaridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda)" (2021, Zootaxa)

Throughout their career, Boris Sket frequently collaborated with other researchers, with notable coauthors including:

  • Zhonge Hou
  • Peng-Yu Jin
  • Hongguang Liu
  • Huijie Qiao
  • Andrew G. Cannizzaro

Their research was also published across diverse scientific venues, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. Frequent publication outlets included:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • International Journal of Speleology
  • Journal of Natural History
  • Zootaxa

Best Publications

  • Global diversity of amphipods (Amphipoda; Crustacea) in freshwater

    Risto Väinölä;J. D. S Witt;M Grabowski;J. H Bradbury

  • Can we agree on an ecological classification of subterranean animals

    Boris Sket

  • A molecular test for cryptic diversity in ground water: how large are the ranges of macro-stygobionts?

    Peter Trontelj;Christophe J. Douady;Cene Fišer;Janine Gibert

  • The mid-latitude biodiversity ridge in terrestrial cave fauna

    David C. Culver;Louis Deharveng;Anne Bedos;Julian J. Lewis

  • The nature of biodiversity in hypogean waters and how it is endangered

    Boris Sket

  • Phylogenetic and phylogeographic relationships in the crayfish genus Austropotamobius inferred from mitochondrial COI gene sequences.

    Peter Trontelj;Yoichi Machino;Boris Sket

  • Global diversity of leeches (Hirudinea) in freshwater

    Boris Sket;Peter Trontelj

  • The colonization of Europe by the freshwater crustacean Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea: Isopoda) proceeded from ancient refugia and was directed by habitat connectivity.

    R. Verovnik;B. Sket;P. Trontelj

  • Eocene habitat shift from saline to freshwater promoted Tethyan amphipod diversification

    Zhonge Hou;Boris Sket;Cene Fišer;Shuqiang Li

  • The ecology of anchihaline caves

    Boris Sket

  • Phylogeography of subterranean and surface populations of water lice Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea: Isopoda).

    R. Verovnik;B. Sket;P. Trontelj

  • Phylogeny of the cave shrimp Troglocaris: Evidence of a young connection between Balkans and Caucasus.

    Valerija Zakšek;Boris Sket;Peter Trontelj

  • Distribution of Proteus (Amphibia : Urodela, Proteidae) and its possible explanation

    Boris Sket

  • HIGH BIODIVERSITY IN HYPOGEAN WATERS AND ITS ENDANGERMENT – THE SITUATION IN SLOVENIA, THE DINARIC KARST, AND EUROPE

    Boris Sket

  • Diversity of microbial communities colonizing the walls of a Karstic cave in Slovenia

    Lejla Pašić;Barbara Kovče;Boris Sket;Blagajana Herzog-Velikonja

  • A phylogenetic perspective on 160 years of troubled taxonomy of Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

    Cene Fišer;Boris Sket;Peter Trontelj

  • Diversity patterns of stygobiotic crustaceans across multiple spatial scales in Europe

    Florian Malard;Claude Boutin;Ana I. Camacho;David Ferreira

  • Phylogenetic analyses of Gammaridae crustacean reveal different diversification patterns among sister lineages in the Tethyan region

    Zhonge Hou;Boris Sket;Shuqiang Li

  • The limits of cryptic diversity in groundwater: phylogeography of the cave shrimp Troglocaris anophthalmus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae)

    Valerija ZAKšEK;Boris Sket;Sanja Gottstein;Damjan Franjević

  • A review of Gammaridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda): the family extent, its evolutionary history, and taxonomic redefinition of genera

    Zhonge Hou;Boris Sket

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Trontelj
Peter Trontelj University of Ljubljana
Cene Fišer
Cene Fišer University of Ljubljana
Jadran Faganeli
Jadran Faganeli University of Ljubljana
David C. Culver
David C. Culver American University
Janine Gibert
Janine Gibert Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Thomas M. Iliffe
Thomas M. Iliffe Texas A&M University at Galveston
William F. Humphreys
William F. Humphreys Australian Museum
Florian Malard
Florian Malard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Louis Deharveng
Louis Deharveng French National Museum of Natural History
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna

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