Landscape diversity promotes landscape functioning in North America

Sarah Mayor, Florian Altermatt, Thomas W. Crowther, Iris Hordijk, Simon Landauer, Jacqueline Oehri, Merin Reji Chacko, Michael E. Schaepman, Bernhard Schmid, Pascal A. Niklaus

Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6(28), 2025

A comprehensive dataset on pollinator diversity, visitation rates, individual-based traits, and pollination success across four plant species in an urban garden experiment

Merin Reji Chacko, Marco Moretti, David Johannes Frey

Data in Brief, vol. 62(112013), 2025

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

Kilian Perrelet, Lauren Cook, Merin Reji Chacko, Florian Altermatt, Marco Moretti

Ecology Letters, vol. 28(9), Authorea, 2025 Sep 14

Species loss in key habitats accelerates regional food web disruption

Merin Reji Chacko, Camille Albouy, Florian Altermatt, Victor Boussange, Martin Brändle, Nina Farwig, Martin M. Gossner, Hsi-Cheng Ho, Alain Joss, Felix Neff, Loïc Pellissier

Communications Biology, vol. 8(988), 2025 Jul, pp. 1-14

A species-level multi-trophic metaweb for Switzerland

Merin Reji Chacko, Camille Albouy, Florian Altermatt, Joan Casanelles-Abella, Martin Brändle, Victor Boussange, Fadri Campell, Willem N. Ellis, Fabian Fopp, Martin M. Gossner, Hsi-Cheng Ho, Alain Joss, Pascal Kipf, Felix Neff, Andjeljko Petrović, Vincent Prié, Željko Tomanović, Nik Zimmerli, Loïc Pellissier

Scientific Data, vol. 12(1164), 2025 Jul, pp. 1-23

Catchment-based sampling of river eDNA integrates terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity of alpine landscapes

Merin Reji Chacko, Florian Altermatt, Fabian Fopp, Antoine Guisan, Thomas Keggin, Arnaud Lyet, Pierre-Louis Rey, Eilísh Richards, Alice Valentini, Conor Waldock, Loic Pellissier

Oecologia, 2023

Will current protected areas harbor refugia for threatened Arctic vegetation types until 2050? A first assessment

Merin Reji Chacko, Jacqueline Oehri, Elena Plekhanova, Gabriela Schaepman‐Strub

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2023

Deciduous Tundra Shrubs Shift Toward More Acquisitive Light Absorption Strategy Under Climate Change Treatments

R. J. Heim, M. Iturrate-García, M. Reji Chacko, S. Karsanaev, T. C. Maximov, M. M. P. D. Heijmans, G. Schaepman‐Strub

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2023

Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use

Hsi‐Cheng Ho, Jakob Brodersen, Martin M Gossner, Catherine Graham, Silvana Kaeser, Merin Reji Chacko, Ole Seehausen, Niklaus Zimmermann, Loic Pellissier, Florian Altermatt

Nature Communications, 2022

Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget

Jacqueline Oehri, G. Schaepman‐Strub, Jin‐Soo Kim, Raleigh Grysko, H. Kropp, I. Grünberg, Vitalii Zemlianskii, O. Sonnentag, E. Euskirchen, Merin Reji Chacko, G. Muscari, P. Blanken, J. Dean, A. D. Di Sarra, R. Harding, I. Sobota, L. Kutzbach, E. Plekhanova, A. Riihelä, J. Boike, N. B. Miller, J. Beringer, E. López-Blanco, P. Stoy, R. Sullivan, M. Kejna, F. Parmentier, J. Gamon, M. Mastepanov, C. Wille, M. Jackowicz-Korczynski, D. Karger, W. Quinton, J. Putkonen, D. van As, T. Christensen, M. Hakuba, R. Stone, S. Metzger, B. Vandecrux, G. Frost, M. Wild, B. Hansen, D. Meloni, F. Dominé, M. te Beest, T. Sachs, A. Kalhori, A. Rocha, S. Williamson, S. Morris, A. Atchley, R. Essery, B. Runkle, D. Holl, L. Riihimaki, H. Iwata, E. Schuur, C. Cox, A. Grachev, J. McFadden, R. Fausto, M. Göckede, M. Ueyama, N. Pirk, G. de Boer, M. Bret-Harte, M. Leppäranta, K. Steffen, T. Friborg, A. Ohmura, C. Edgar, J. Olofsson, S. Chambers

Nature Communications, 2022

Grade 9 Astronomy Study: Interests of Boys and Girls Studying Astronomy at Fletcher's Meadow Secondary School.

Mirjan Krstovic, Laura Brown, Merin Reji Chacko, Brenda Trinh

Astronomy Education Review, 2008

No one-size-fits-all: trait-dependent effects of local plant diversity on pollinators and pollination service in a densifying city (Under Review)

Merin Reji Chacko, David Frey, Matthias Albrecht, Jaboury Ghazoul, Marco Moretti

Authorea, 2025

Globally unified analysis of riverine eDNA reveals common associations of fish biodiversity with drainage characteristics

Yan Zhang, Heng Zhang, Hiroshi Akashi, Camille P. Albouy, Kara J. Andres, Jose Barquin, Jeanine Brantschen, Richard E. Connon, Joseph M. Craine, Deirdre B. Gleeson, Alejandra Goldenberg-Vilar, Alexia M. Gonzalez-Ferreras, Chelsea Hatzenbuhler, Kamil Hupalo, Josephine Hyde, Wataru Iwasaki, Mark D. Johnson, Aron D. Katz, Vyacheslav V. Kuzovlev, Courtney E. Larson, Laurene A. Lecaudey, Florian Leese, Matthieu Leray, Feilong Li, Till-Hendrik Macher, Quentin Mauvisseau, Maria Moran-Luis, Georgia Nester, Helio Quintero, Tsilavina Ravelomanana, Merin Reji Chacko, Mattia Sacco, Naiara Sales, Tamara Schenekar, Martin Schletterer, Saskia Schmidt, Nicholas O. Schulte, Robin Schutz, Jinelle H. Sperry, Emma R. Stevens, Sarah A. Stinson, Steven Weiss, Fei Xia, Hui Zhang, Song Zhang, Wenjun Zhong, Shuo Zong, Loic Pellissier, Xiaowei Zhang, Florian Altermatt

bioRxiv, 2025 Sep

Integrated reanalysis of global riverine fish eDNA datasets shows robustness and congruence of biodiversity conclusions

Yan Zhang, Heng Zhang, Hiroshi Akashi, Camille P. Albouy, Kara J. Andres, José Barquín, Jeanine Brantschen, Richard E. Connon, Joseph M. Craine, Deirdre Gleeson, Alejandra Goldenberg-Vilar, Alexia M. González-Ferreras, Chelsea Hatzenbuhler, Kamil Hupało, Josephine Hyde, Wataru Iwasaki, Mark D. Johnson, Aron D. Katz, Vyacheslav V. Kuzovlev, Courtney E. Larson, Laurène A. Lecaudey, Florian Leese, Matthieu Leray, Feilong Li, Till-Hendrik Macher, Quentin Mauvisseau, María Morán-Luis, Georgia Nester, Helio Quintero, Tsilavina Ravelomanana, Merin Reji Chacko, Mattia Saccò, Naiara Sales, Tamara Schenekar, Martin Schletterer, Saskia Schmidt, Nicholas O. Schulte, Robin Schütz, Jinelle H. Sperry, Emma R. Stevens, Sarah A. Stinson, Steven Weiss, Fei Xia, Hui Zhang, Song Zhang, Wenjun Zhong, Shuo Zong, Loïc Pellissier, Xiaowei Zhang, Florian Altermatt

bioRxiv, 2025 Sep

If species disappear, this can have far-reaching consequences

Lisa Bose

WSL News, 2025

La biodiversité en milieu urbain – De quoi la biodiversité en ville a-t-elle besoin?

M. Moretti, K. Perrelet, D. Frey, J. Casanelles-Abella, M. Reji Chacko, B. Fournier

Umweltrecht in der Praxis, vol. 39(4), 2025, pp. 397-413

Unveiling spatial patterns of multi-trophic biodiversity using the metaweb approach

Merin Reji Chacko

ETH Zurich, 2024