Small habitat patches can be the largest contributors to urban biodiversity across taxonomic groups

Kilian Perrelet, Lauren M. Cook, Florian Altermatt, Federico Riva, M. Moretti

bioRxiv, 2026

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

Kilian Perrelet, Lauren M. Cook, Andreas Dietzel, Florian Altermatt, Marco Moretti

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2025

Green roofs harbor different and non-substituting invertebrate communities than surrounding ground-level habitats.

Kilian Perrelet, Marco Moretti, Océane Inglard, Florian Altermatt, Lauren M. Cook

Journal of Environmental Management, 2025

Urban heat exacerbates climatic risks to urban biodiversity

Andreas Dietzel, Marco Moretti, Kilian Perrelet, Lauren M. Cook

npj Urban Sustainability, 2025

Urbanisation Drives the Decoupling, Simplification, and Homogenization of Aquatic and Terrestrial Food Webs

Kilian Perrelet, Lauren M Cook, Merin Reji Chacko, Florian Altermatt, M. Moretti

Ecology Letters, 2025

Engineering blue-green infrastructure for and with biodiversity in cities

Kilian Perrelet, Marco Moretti, Andreas Dietzel, Florian Altermatt, Lauren M. Cook

npj Urban Sustainability, 2024

Environmental DNA: The next chapter

Rosetta C. Blackman, M. Couton, F. Keck, D. Kirschner, L. Carraro, Eva Cereghetti, Kilian Perrelet, Raphael Bossart, Jeanine Brantschen, Yan Zhang, F. Altermatt

Molecular Ecology, 2024