Green roofs differ from ground-level habitats in terms of biodiversity. This can help to boost biodiversity in cities. 🌱🪱 https://f.mtr.cool/rvuvszuipu @florianaltermatt.bsky.social  @laurenmcook.bsky.social @kperrelet.bsky.social

Green roofs provide additional habitats

Green roofs differ from ground-level habitats in terms of biodiversity. This can help to boost biodiversity in cities.

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Social-ecological signatures in plant species composition across Swiss cities and urban green space types @joancasanelles.bsky.social, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @kperrelet.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social #PlantScience

Last week, I defended my PhD thesis! 🎉 4 years diving into blue-green infrastructure, biodiversity, food webs, eDNA, and above all, amazing collaboration between engineers and ecologists 🏣🌱🐞🧬 Big thanks to @laurenmcook.bsky.social, Marco Moretti, and @florianaltermatt.bsky.social!

Green roofs ≠ ground habitats. 🌿🏙️ Only 10% of invertebrate species on the ground are found on nearby rooftops. Green roofs host distinct species that need tailored design to thrive. Treat them as ecosystems, not substitutes. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #GreenInfrastructure #Biodiversity #GreenRoofs

Fresh off the press! 🚨 What happens to species with different mobility when we replace urban green spaces with green roofs? Can they migrate to rooftops? 🏙️ TL;DR: Not really, but green roofs still offer unique and improvable habitats! Now out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/6

Big congrats to @merinrejichacko.bsky.social and colleagues on the release of this incredible dataset! Amazing to see such large-scale collaboration come to fruition. Very grateful for early access! It allowed us to demonstrate how #urbanization reshapes and homogenizes multitrophic food webs 🏙️

Urbanization drives the decoupling, simplification, and homogenization of aquatic and terrestrial food webs

Aquatic and terrestrial communities often co-occur at close distance, enabling biotic interactions across ecosystem boundaries. While such interactions in natural habitats contribute to complex, coupl...

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Merin Reji Chacko@merinrejichacko.bsky.social · last yr.

Here, by combining trophiCH with #eDNA based sampling of #biodiversity, @kperrelet.bsky.social et al* show that #urbanisation decouples and simplifies aquatic-terrestrial #foodwebs. doi.org/10.22541/au.... * @laurenmcook.bsky.social, myself😁, @florianaltermatt.bsky.social & Marco Moretti 4/6

🚨New paper alert🚨 Exploring urban #aquatic & #terrestrial biodiversity with #eDNA 🧬 ❗ #Urbanization weakens land–water linkages ❗ Aquatic & terrestrial communities follow distinct drivers 🐞🦟 ❗ Adapted primers for aquatic & terrestrial invertebrates 🧬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Aquatic and terrestrial environmental DNA signals reveal decoupling of blue-green communities along an urbanization gradient

Urban blue and green spaces, like ponds and parks, can mitigate the negative effects of urbanization on biodiversity by providing diverse, connected h…

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Interested in #foodwebs, #urbanization, or #eDNA metabarcoding? Then come to my talk tomorrow (Friday 13th, 11:30 am) in the Community Ecology Mixed Bag session!

Florian Altermatt@florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 2y ago

4/4 and also Friday #BES2024: @kperrelet.bsky.social presents a poster on how #urbanization simplifies and decouples #aquatic and terrestrial #foodwebs (session Community #Ecology - Mixed Bag 1, 11:30 am) 🏙️🪲🐟🐠🦋🪰🧬🧬 #eDNA www.nature.com/articles/s42... go and see them all 😀!