Tobias Roth | Research interests
My research is centered on using data from large-scale field surveys such as the Biodiversity Monitoring Switzerland, to better understand how biodiversity responds to nitrogen deposition, land-use, or climate-change. I focus on the human-dominated landscapes in Switzerland and aim to provide information that can be used in biodiversity conservation.
Education and professional experience
| 2019– ongoing | Research associate at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Zoology |
| 2006– ongoing | Co-owner and researcher at Hintermann & Weber AG, Reinach |
| 2013– 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Zoology |
| 2007– 2012 | PhD Student at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Zoology |
| 2005– 2007 | Post-diploma studies in statistics at the ETH Zurich |
| 1998– 2004 | Student in zoology, University of Basel, Switzerland and University of Bergen, Norway |
Recent key publications
Roth T, Kohli L, Rihm B, Meier R, Amrhein V (2021) Negative effects of nitrogen deposition on Swiss butterflies. Conservation Biology 35: 1766-1776. PDF https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13744
Roth T, Kohli L, Bühler C, Rihm B, Meuli RG, Meier R, Amrhein V (2019) Species turnover reveals hidden effects of decreasing nitrogen deposition in mountain hay meadows. PeerJ 7: e6347. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6347
Roth T, Allan E, Pearman PB, Amrhein V (2018) Functional ecology and imperfect detection of species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9: 917-928. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12950
Amrhein V, Korner-Nievergelt F, Roth T (2017) The earth is flat (p>0.05): Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research. PeerJ 5: e3544. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3544
Roth T, Bader E, Frara P, Heer L, Flück H, Lüthi T, Schlup B, Schwaller T (2017) Timing and body condition of dichromatic Black Redstarts during autumn migration. Ecology and Evolution 7: 3567-3573. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2911
Roth T, Kohli L, Rihm B, Meier R, Achermann B (2017) Using change-point models to estimate empirical critical loads for nitrogen in mountain ecosystems. Environmental Pollution 220: 1480-1487. PDF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2016.10.083
Roth T, Bühler C, Amrhein V (2016) Estimating effects of species interactions on populations of endangered species. American Naturalist 187: 457-467. PDF https://doi.org/10.1086/685095
Roth T, Kohli L, Rihm B, Amrhein V, Achermann B (2015) Nitrogen deposition and multi-dimensional plant diversity at the landscape scale. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150017. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150017
Korner-Nievergelt F, Roth T, von Felten S, Guélat J, Almasi B, Korner-Nievergelt P (2015) Bayesian data analysis in ecology using linear models with R, BUGS and Stan. Elsevier.
