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 🏙️

🚨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...

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!