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Overview

Gabriel Singer is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant concentration in Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work spans several key topics, including:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Gabriel Singer has published in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Natura Sloveniae
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Examples of recent papers include:

  • An international laboratory comparison of dissolved organic matter composition by high resolution mass spectrometry: Are we getting the same answer? (2020, Limnology and Oceanography Methods)
  • ICBM-OCEAN: Processing Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data of Complex Molecular Mixtures (2020, Analytical Chemistry)
  • River ecosystem conceptual models and non-perennial rivers: A critical review (2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water)
  • From meta-system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)
  • Universal microbial reworking of dissolved organic matter along environmental gradients (2024, Nature Communications)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Rubén del Campo
  • Lukas Thuile Bistarelli
  • Lauren Talluto
  • Thorsten Dittmar
  • Thibault Datry

Best Publications

  • Biogeochemically diverse organic matter in Alpine glaciers and its downstream fate

    Gabriel A. Singer;Christina Fasching;Linda Wilhelm;Jutta Niggemann

  • Biophysical Controls on Community Succession in Stream Biofilms

    Katharina Besemer;Gabriel Singer;Romana Limberger;Ann-Kathrin Chlup

  • Microbial biodiversity in glacier-fed streams.

    Linda Wilhelm;Gabriel A Singer;Christina Fasching;Tom J Battin

  • Fluvial network organization imprints on microbial co-occurrence networks

    Stefanie Widder;Katharina Besemer;Gabriel A. Singer;Serena Ceola

  • Microbial degradation of terrigenous dissolved organic matter and potential consequences for carbon cycling in brown-water streams

    Christina Fasching;Barbara Behounek;Gabriel A. Singer;Tom J. Battin

  • Headwaters are critical reservoirs of microbial diversity for fluvial networks

    Katharina Besemer;Gabriel Singer;Christopher Quince;Enrico Bertuzzo

  • Emissions from dry inland waters are a blind spot in the global carbon cycle

    Rafael Marcé;Biel Obrador;Lluís Gómez-Gener;Núria Catalán

  • An International Laboratory Comparison of Dissolved Organic Matter Composition by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Are We Getting the Same Answer?

    Jeffrey A. Hawkes;Juliana D'Andrilli;Jeffrey N. Agar;Mark P. Barrow

  • Deciphering associations between dissolved organic molecules and bacterial communities in a pelagic marine system.

    Helena Osterholz;Gabriel Singer;Bernd Wemheuer;Rolf Daniel

  • Artificial Light at Night Affects Organism Flux across Ecosystem Boundaries and Drives Community Structure in the Recipient Ecosystem

    Alessandro Manfrin;Alessandro Manfrin;Alessandro Manfrin;Gabriel Singer;Stefano Larsen;Nadine Weiß;Nadine Weiß

  • Bacterial Community Composition of Stream Biofilms in Spatially Variable-Flow Environments

    Katharina Besemer;Gabriel Singer;Iris Hödl;Tom J. Battin

  • ICBM-OCEAN: Processing Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data of Complex Molecular Mixtures

    Julian Merder;Jan Alfred Freund;Ulrike Feudel;Christian T. Hansen

  • Anthropogenic subsidies alter stream consumer–resource stoichiometry, biodiversity, and food chains

    Gabriel A. Singer;Tom J. Battin

  • Physical Heterogeneity Increases Biofilm Resource Use and Its Molecular Diversity in Stream Mesocosms

    Gabriel Singer;Katharina Besemer;Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin;Iris Hödl

  • Rare but active taxa contribute to community dynamics of benthic biofilms in glacier‐fed streams

    Linda Wilhelm;Katharina Besemer;Christina Fasching;Tim Urich

  • Carbon dynamics and their link to dissolved organic matter quality across contrasting stream ecosystems

    Pascal Bodmer;Pascal Bodmer;Marlen Heinz;Martin Pusch;Gabriel Singer

  • Scales and drivers of temporal pCO2 dynamics in an Alpine stream

    Hannes Peter;Gabriel A. Singer;Gabriel A. Singer;Christian Preiler;Peter Chifflard

  • Flagship umbrella species needed for the conservation of overlooked aquatic biodiversity.

    Gregor Kalinkat;Gregor Kalinkat;Juliano S. Cabral;William Darwall;G. Francesco Ficetola;G. Francesco Ficetola;G. Francesco Ficetola

  • Urban water interfaces

    M.O. Gessner;M.O. Gessner;R. Hinkelmann;G. Nützmann;G. Nützmann;M. Jekel

  • A conceptual framework for understanding the biogeochemistry of dry riverbeds through the lens of soil science

    María Isabel Arce;Clara Mendoza-Lera;María Almagro;Núria Catalán

  • Scale-dependent effects of rural activities on benthic macroinvertebrates and physico-chemical characteristics in headwater streams of the Mara River, Kenya

    Veronica Minaya;Michael E. McClain;Michael E. McClain;Otto Moog;Fred Omengo

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom J. Battin
Tom J. Battin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Thorsten Dittmar
Thorsten Dittmar Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Enrico Bertuzzo
Enrico Bertuzzo Ca Foscari University of Venice
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Mark O. Gessner
Mark O. Gessner Technical University of Berlin
Franz Hölker
Franz Hölker Leibniz Association
Michael T. Monaghan
Michael T. Monaghan Freie Universität Berlin
Cristina Santín
Cristina Santín Swansea University
Thibault Datry
Thibault Datry Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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