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Matthew L. Niemiller

University of Alabama in Huntsville · US
Area of research
Paleontology · Global and Planetary Change
Research interest
Research interests include Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.
h-index
28
citations
3,431
works
164
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Competition among freshwater clades explains cave colonization in blind cavefishes
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2026cited by 0position: middledoi
Ancient climate changes and relaxed selection shape cave colonization in North American cavefishes
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
The complete genome sequences of 12 species of Percopsiformes
Biodiversity Genomes 2025cited by 1position: firstdoi
Ancient climate changes and relaxed selection shape cave colonisation in North American cavefishes
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2024cited by 1position: middledoi
Population genomics and mitochondrial DNA reveal cryptic diversity in North American Spring Cavefishes (Amblyopsidae, Forbesichthys)
Conservation Genetics 2024cited by 1position: middledoi
Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem
Global Change Biology 2023cited by 114position: middledoi
Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem
2023cited by 19position: middledoi
Conservation implications for the world’s most widely distributed cavefish species complex based on population genomics (Typhlichthys, Percopsiformes)
Conservation Genetics 2023cited by 8position: middledoi
<scp>BeeDNA</scp> : Microfluidic environmental <scp>DNA</scp> metabarcoding as a tool for connecting plant and pollinator communities
Environmental DNA 2022cited by 25position: middledoi
Speciation with gene flow in a narrow endemic West Virginia cave salamander (Gyrinophilus subterraneus)
Conservation Genetics 2022cited by 6position: middledoi
Rediscovery and phylogenetic analysis of the Shelta Cave Crayfish (Orconectes sheltae Cooper &amp;amp; Cooper, 1997), a decapod (Decapoda, Cambaridae) endemic to Shelta Cave in northern Alabama, USA
Subterranean Biology 2022cited by 4position: lastdoi
A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome
Conservation Letters 2021cited by 77position: middledoi
Subterranean freshwater gastropod biodiversity and conservation in the United States and Mexico
Conservation Biology 2021cited by 22position: middledoi
Refining sampling protocols for cavefishes and cave crayfishes to account for environmental variation
Subterranean Biology 2021cited by 14position: middledoi
Discovery of the Blue Ridge Springsnail, Fontigens orolibas, Hubricht, 1957 (Gastropoda: Emmericiidae) in East Tennessee and Its Conservation Implications
Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation 2021cited by 1position: lastdoi
Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2020cited by 143position: middledoi
Cave‐adapted evolution in the North American amblyopsid fishes inferred using phylogenomics and geometric morphometrics
Evolution 2020cited by 32position: middledoi
Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems
BioScience 2019cited by 299position: middledoi
Patterns, Mechanisms and Genetics of Speciation in Reptiles and Amphibians
Genes 2019cited by 57position: middledoi
Rediscovery and conservation status of six short‐range endemic <i>Pseudanophthalmus</i> cave beetles (Carabidae: Trechini)
Insect Conservation and Diversity 2017cited by 20position: firstdoi
Morphological Evolution of the Cave-, Spring-, and Swampfishes of the Amblyopsidae (Percopsiformes)
Copeia 2016cited by 18position: middledoi
Vertebrate fauna in caves of eastern Tennessee within the Appalachians karst region, USA
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 2016cited by 15position: firstdoi
First definitive record of a stygobiotic fish (Percopsiformes, Amblyopsidae, Typhlichthys) from the Appalachians karst region in the eastern United States
Subterranean Biology 2016cited by 7position: firstdoi
Doomed before they are described? The need for conservation assessments of cryptic species complexes using an amblyopsid cavefish (Amblyopsidae: Typhlichthys) as a case study
Biodiversity and Conservation 2013cited by 79position: firstdoi

Grants

CAREER: Diversity in the darkness: Integrating environmental genetics, comparative genomics, and citizen science to shed light on groundwater biodiversity
NSF2047939$1,029,9372021–2027PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Pamela B. Hart · University of Alabama9 papers (2016–2026)Jonathan W. Armbruster · American Museum of Natural History7 papers (2016–2026)Dahiana Arcila · Scripps Institution of Oceanography4 papers (2024–2026)Annette Summers Engel · University of Tennessee at Knoxville4 papers (2016–2021)Ricardo Betancur‐R · Scripps Institution of Oceanography3 papers (2024–2026)Fernando Meléndez-Vazquez · American Museum of Natural History3 papers (2024–2026) · 3 papers (2016–2017) · 2 papers (2024–2025)Prosanta Chakrabarty · Tulane University2 papers (2020–2023)Emily M. Troyer · University of Michigan2 papers (2024–2025)Katherine E. Dooley · University of Alabama in Huntsville2 papers (2021–2022) · 2 papers (2024–2025) · 2 papers (2016–2024)Charles Stephen · Georgia State University2 papers (2016–2017)Nicholas S. Gladstone · United States Fish and Wildlife Service2 papers (2021–2021) · 2 papers (2021–2021)Evin T. Carter · University of Tennessee at Knoxville2 papers (2016–2017) · 2 papers (2024–2025)Audrey Paterson · University of Tennessee at Knoxville2 papers (2016–2021)Mark A. Davis · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign2 papers (2022–2024)