List of works - Marco Moretti

A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis

scientific article

A classical measure of phylogenetic dissimilarity and its relationship with beta diversity

scholarly article by Carlo Ricotta et al published February 2015 in Basic and Applied Ecology

A comprehensive dataset on cultivated and spontaneously growing vascular plants in urban gardens.

scientific article

A dataset of the flowering plants (Angiospermae) in urban green areas in five European cities

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

A new measure of functional evenness and some of its properties.

scientific article

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

article

A partial ordering approach for functional diversity.

scientific article

A trait‐based framework for dung beetle functional ecology

scientific article published in 2022

Agricultural policies exacerbate honeybee pollination service supply-demand mismatches across Europe

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

An experimental framework to identify community functional components driving ecosystem processes and services delivery

scientific article published in 2012

Applying predictive models to study the ecological properties of urban ecosystems: A case study in Zürich, Switzerland

scientific article published on 18 May 2021

Arthropod diversity in pristine vs. managed beech forests in Transcarpathia (Western Ukraine)

scientific article published in 2015

Assessing the functional turnover of species assemblages with tailored dissimilarity matrices

article

Biodiversity and resilience of arthropod communities after fire disturbance in temperate forests

scientific article published on 28 June 2006

CWM and Rao's quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology.

scientific article

Can a trait-based multi-taxa approach improve our assessment of forest management impact on biodiversity?

scientific article published on 07 October 2013

Contrasting processes drive alpha and beta taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of orthopteran communities in grasslands

Contrasting trait assembly patterns in plant and bird communities along environmental and human-induced land-use gradients

article

Correction to: Genetic diversity and reproductive ecology of the sage-leaved rockrose, Cistus salviifolius L., in the Swiss Alps

scientific article published in 2020

Cuckoo and biodiversity: Testing the correlation between species occurrence and bird species richness in Europe

article

Cuckoo as indicator of high functional diversity of bird communities: A new paradigm for biodiversity surrogacy

scientific article published in 2017

Designing sampling protocols for plant-pollinator interactions - timing, meteorology, flowering variations and failed captures matter

scientific article published in 2021

Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales

scientific article published on 18 March 2021

Direct and Indirect Effects of Forest Anthropogenic Disturbance on Above and Below Ground Communities and Litter Decomposition

scientific article published on 05 March 2021

Direct and indirect effects of urban gardening on aboveground and belowground diversity influencing soil multifunctionality

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Disentangling community functional components in a litter-macrodetritivore model system reveals the predominance of the mass ratio hypothesis

scientific article

Diversity in form and function: Vertical distribution of soil fauna mediates multidimensional trait variation

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Engineering blue-green infrastructure for and with biodiversity in cities

scientific article published on 24 April 2024

Exotic or not, leaf trait dissimilarity modulates the effect of dominant species on mixed litter decomposition

article

Factors shaping community assemblages and species co-occurrence of different trophic levels.

scientific article

Fire and windthrow in forests: Winners and losers in Neuropterida and Mecoptera

scientific article

Fire-induced taxonomic and functional changes in saproxylic beetle communities in fire sensitive regions

scientific article published in 2010

First records of Chlamydatus saltitans (Fallén, 1807) and Tupiocoris rhododendri (Dolling, 1972) (Heteroptera, Miridae) and notes on other rare and alien true bugs in Switzerland ⬇️

scientific article

First records of Edwardsiana sociabilis (Ossiannilsson, 1936) and Laburrus pellax (Horváth, 1903) (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha : Cicadellidae) in Switzerland ⬇️

scientific article

From the South and from the North? – Quilnus marcosi Heiss & Baena and Aradus angularis J. Sahlberg, two flat bug species new for Central Europe (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Aradidae)

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Functional responses and resilience of boreal forest ecosystem after reduction of deer density.

scientific article

Functional responses of multitaxa communities to disturbance and stress gradients in a restored floodplain

article

Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms

article

Genetic diversity and reproductive ecology of the sage-leaved rockrose, Cistus salviifolius L., in the Swiss Alps

scientific article published in 2020

Habitat connectivity shapes urban arthropod communities: the key role of green roofs

scientific article published on April 2014

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

scientific article published in 2016

Herbivory differentially alters litter dynamics of two functionally contrasted grasses

scientific article published on 13 April 2013

Herbivory mediated by coupling between biomechanical traits of plants and grasshoppers

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

How Does the Amount and Composition of PM Deposited on Platanus acerifolia Leaves Change Across Different Cities in Europe?

scientific article

How to manage the urban green to improve bird diversity and community structure

scientific article published in 2011

How wild bees find a way in European cities: Pollen metabarcoding unravels multiple feeding strategies and their effects on distribution patterns in four wild bee species

scientific article published on 28 October 2021

Impact of windthrow and salvage-logging on taxonomic and functional diversity of forest arthropods

article published in 2017

Impacts of urban sprawl on species richness of plants, butterflies, gastropods and birds: not only built-up area matters

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity: the role of species mobility, degree of specialisation and spatial scale

scientific article published on 4 March 2015

Improving indicator species analysis by combining groups of sites

article

Intraspecific niche partitioning in macrodetritivores enhances mixed leaf litter decomposition

scientific article published on 08 September 2019

Is ecology anti-urban? Urban ideas and imaginaries across one hundred years of ecological publications

scientific article published in 2022

Linking traits between plants and invertebrate herbivores to track functional effects of land-use changes

article

Litter decomposition driven by soil fauna, plant diversity and soil management in urban gardens

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Local and landscape factors shape alpha and beta trophic interaction diversity in urban gardens

scientific article published in 2024

Low resource availability drives feeding niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees in a European city

scientific article published in 2022

Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide

article published in 2016

Modelling the influence of change in fire regime on the local distribution of a Mediterranean pyrophytic plant species (Cistus salviifolius) at its northern range limit

article

Multiscale Determinants Drive Parasitization of Drosophilidae by Hymenopteran Parasitoids in Agricultural Landscapes

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Negative Consequences of Forearm Bands that are Too Small for Bats

scientific article published in June 2009

Phyllosphere bacterial communities in urban green areas throughout Europe relate to urban intensity

scientific article published in 2022

Plant functional traits reveal the relative contribution of habitat and food preferences to the diet of grasshoppers

scientific article published on 6 October 2013

Predation risk shaped by habitat and landscape complexity in urban environments

scientific article published in 2018

Psychological restoration in urban gardens related to garden type, biodiversity and garden-related stress

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Reconciling trait based perspectives along a trait‐integration continuum

scientific article published on 14 July 2021

Reproductive trait differences drive offspring production in urban cavity‐nesting bees and wasps

scientific article published on 22 June 2021

Research agenda on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in European cities

scientific article published in 2021

Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects

scholarly article by Jorge Ari Noriega et al published February 2018 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Response of bat species to sylvo-pastoral abandonment

article

Response of bats and nocturnal insects to urban green areas in Europe

scientific article published in 2021

Roost selection by non-breeding Leisler's bats (Nyctalus leisleri) in montane woodlands: implications for habitat management

Seasonal survival probabilities suggest low migration mortality in migrating bats

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Spatial and temporal variations of aridity shape dung beetle assemblages towards the Sahara desert

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

Species indicators of ecosystem recovery after reducing large herbivore density: Comparing taxa and testing species combinations

scientific article published in 2014

Species-Specific Information for Enhancing Ecosystem Services

scholarly article published 2017

Spider trait assembly patterns and resilience under fire-induced vegetation change in South Brazilian grasslands

scientific article

Spider, bee and bird communities in cities are shaped by environmental control and high stochasticity

scientific article published in 2010

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taxonomical vs. functional responses of bee communities to fire in two contrasting climatic regions

scientific article

The Influence of Fine-Scale Grazing Heterogeneity on Dung Beetle Assemblages: What Trait Analysis Teaches Us

scientific article published in 2021

The common cuckoo is an effective indicator of high bird species richness in Asia and Europe.

scientific article

The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

scientific article published in 2022

The effects of wildfire on ground-active spiders in deciduous forests on the Swiss southern slope of the Alps

article

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The origin of urban communities: From the regional species pool to community assemblages in city

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Toward the use of testate amoeba functional traits as indicator of floodplain restoration success

Towards an integrative approach to evaluate the environmental ecosystem services provided by urban forest

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

Towards the intentional multifunctionality of urban green infrastructure: a paradox of choice?

scientific article published in 2024

Tracking sucking herbivory with nitrogen isotope labelling: Lessons from an individual trait-based approach

scientific article published in 2022

Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in urban areas: A comprehensive literature review

scholarly article by Nina Schwarz et al published October 2017 in Ecosystem services

Urban Green Connectivity Assessment: A Comparative Study of Datasets in European Cities

scientific article published on 22 February 2024

Urban arthropod communities: Added value or just a blend of surrounding biodiversity?

scientific article published in 2011

Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

scientific article published on 21 February 2022

Urban bumblebees are smaller and more phenotypically diverse than their rural counterparts

scientific article published on 28 July 2019

Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment

scientific article published in 2022

Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

scientific article published in 2023

Wild bee larval food composition in five European cities

scientific article published on 30 April 2022

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

article

Ökologische Resilienz nach Feuer: Die Waldbrandfläche Leuk als Modellfall | Ecological resilience after fire: the forest fire area above Leuk as a model case study

scientific article published in 2005

List of works by Marco Moretti

A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis

A classical measure of phylogenetic dissimilarity and its relationship with beta diversity

A comprehensive dataset on cultivated and spontaneously growing vascular plants in urban gardens.

A dataset of the flowering plants (Angiospermae) in urban green areas in five European cities

A new measure of functional evenness and some of its properties.

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

A partial ordering approach for functional diversity.

A trait‐based framework for dung beetle functional ecology

Agricultural policies exacerbate honeybee pollination service supply-demand mismatches across Europe

An experimental framework to identify community functional components driving ecosystem processes and services delivery

Applying predictive models to study the ecological properties of urban ecosystems: A case study in Zürich, Switzerland

Arthropod diversity in pristine vs. managed beech forests in Transcarpathia (Western Ukraine)

Assessing the functional turnover of species assemblages with tailored dissimilarity matrices

Biodiversity and resilience of arthropod communities after fire disturbance in temperate forests

CWM and Rao's quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology.

Can a trait-based multi-taxa approach improve our assessment of forest management impact on biodiversity?

Contrasting processes drive alpha and beta taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of orthopteran communities in grasslands

Contrasting trait assembly patterns in plant and bird communities along environmental and human-induced land-use gradients

Correction to: Genetic diversity and reproductive ecology of the sage-leaved rockrose, Cistus salviifolius L., in the Swiss Alps

Cuckoo and biodiversity: Testing the correlation between species occurrence and bird species richness in Europe

Cuckoo as indicator of high functional diversity of bird communities: A new paradigm for biodiversity surrogacy

Designing sampling protocols for plant-pollinator interactions - timing, meteorology, flowering variations and failed captures matter

Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales

Direct and Indirect Effects of Forest Anthropogenic Disturbance on Above and Below Ground Communities and Litter Decomposition

Direct and indirect effects of urban gardening on aboveground and belowground diversity influencing soil multifunctionality

Disentangling community functional components in a litter-macrodetritivore model system reveals the predominance of the mass ratio hypothesis

Diversity in form and function: Vertical distribution of soil fauna mediates multidimensional trait variation

Engineering blue-green infrastructure for and with biodiversity in cities

Exotic or not, leaf trait dissimilarity modulates the effect of dominant species on mixed litter decomposition

Factors shaping community assemblages and species co-occurrence of different trophic levels.

Fire and windthrow in forests: Winners and losers in Neuropterida and Mecoptera

Fire-induced taxonomic and functional changes in saproxylic beetle communities in fire sensitive regions

First records of Chlamydatus saltitans (Fallén, 1807) and Tupiocoris rhododendri (Dolling, 1972) (Heteroptera, Miridae) and notes on other rare and alien true bugs in Switzerland ⬇️

First records of Edwardsiana sociabilis (Ossiannilsson, 1936) and Laburrus pellax (Horváth, 1903) (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha : Cicadellidae) in Switzerland ⬇️

From the South and from the North? – Quilnus marcosi Heiss & Baena and Aradus angularis J. Sahlberg, two flat bug species new for Central Europe (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Aradidae)

Functional responses and resilience of boreal forest ecosystem after reduction of deer density.

Functional responses of multitaxa communities to disturbance and stress gradients in a restored floodplain

Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms

Genetic diversity and reproductive ecology of the sage-leaved rockrose, Cistus salviifolius L., in the Swiss Alps

Habitat connectivity shapes urban arthropod communities: the key role of green roofs

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

Herbivory differentially alters litter dynamics of two functionally contrasted grasses

Herbivory mediated by coupling between biomechanical traits of plants and grasshoppers

How Does the Amount and Composition of PM Deposited on Platanus acerifolia Leaves Change Across Different Cities in Europe?

How to manage the urban green to improve bird diversity and community structure

How wild bees find a way in European cities: Pollen metabarcoding unravels multiple feeding strategies and their effects on distribution patterns in four wild bee species

Impact of windthrow and salvage-logging on taxonomic and functional diversity of forest arthropods

Impacts of urban sprawl on species richness of plants, butterflies, gastropods and birds: not only built-up area matters

Impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity: the role of species mobility, degree of specialisation and spatial scale

Improving indicator species analysis by combining groups of sites

Intraspecific niche partitioning in macrodetritivores enhances mixed leaf litter decomposition

Is ecology anti-urban? Urban ideas and imaginaries across one hundred years of ecological publications

Linking traits between plants and invertebrate herbivores to track functional effects of land-use changes

Litter decomposition driven by soil fauna, plant diversity and soil management in urban gardens

Local and landscape factors shape alpha and beta trophic interaction diversity in urban gardens

Low resource availability drives feeding niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees in a European city

Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide

Modelling the influence of change in fire regime on the local distribution of a Mediterranean pyrophytic plant species (Cistus salviifolius) at its northern range limit

Multiscale Determinants Drive Parasitization of Drosophilidae by Hymenopteran Parasitoids in Agricultural Landscapes

Negative Consequences of Forearm Bands that are Too Small for Bats

Phyllosphere bacterial communities in urban green areas throughout Europe relate to urban intensity

Plant functional traits reveal the relative contribution of habitat and food preferences to the diet of grasshoppers

Predation risk shaped by habitat and landscape complexity in urban environments

Psychological restoration in urban gardens related to garden type, biodiversity and garden-related stress

Reconciling trait based perspectives along a trait‐integration continuum

Reproductive trait differences drive offspring production in urban cavity‐nesting bees and wasps

Research agenda on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in European cities

Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects

Response of bat species to sylvo-pastoral abandonment

Response of bats and nocturnal insects to urban green areas in Europe

Roost selection by non-breeding Leisler's bats (Nyctalus leisleri) in montane woodlands: implications for habitat management

Seasonal survival probabilities suggest low migration mortality in migrating bats

Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges ⬇️

Spatial and temporal variations of aridity shape dung beetle assemblages towards the Sahara desert

Species indicators of ecosystem recovery after reducing large herbivore density: Comparing taxa and testing species combinations

Species-Specific Information for Enhancing Ecosystem Services

Spider trait assembly patterns and resilience under fire-induced vegetation change in South Brazilian grasslands

Spider, bee and bird communities in cities are shaped by environmental control and high stochasticity

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access