I am a plant ecologist, currently working with environmental monitoring in agricultural landscapes in Sweden. I am involved in several monitoring projects that focus for example on grasslands, powerline corridors, and farmland biotopes. My tasks include aerial picture interpretation, field work (mainly plant identification), data analysis, report writing and method development. The main goal of our working group is to monitor spatial and temporal changes in the Swedish agricultural landscape.
The main external collaborators of our working group are County Administrative Boards, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, and the Swedish Board of Agriculture. Since our work is embedded in SLU's wider environmental monitoring and assessment mission, we closely collaborate with several institutions within SLU.
After completing my studies in 'Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning' at Nuertingen-Geislingen University (Germany), I worked for three years on applied conservation projects at the Institute for Landscape and Environment. A major issue in most of my projects was the decline of species-rich hay meadows in southwestern Germany due to land use change. The European master program 'Environmental Science – Soil, Water and Biodiversity' brought me to SLU (Sweden). In my master thesis, I studied the spread of invasive plants in mountain regions.
I continued with a PhD at Stockholm University (Sweden), focusing on summer drought and winter warming effects on grassland vegetation, before returning to SLU to start my current position as environmental assessment specialist.
Roth, N., Kimberley, A., Guasconi, D., et al. (2023). Floral resources in Swedish grasslands remain relatively stable under an experimental drought and are enhanced by soil amendments if regularly mown. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 4, e12231. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12231
Roth, N., Baxter, R., Furness, M., et al. (2023). Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term. Plant Ecology & Diversity, 16, 189-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2023.2286229
Roth, N., Jaramillo, F., Wang-Erlandsson, L., et al. (2021). A call for consistency with the terms ‘wetter’ and ‘drier’ in climate change studies. Environmental Evidence, 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-021-00224-0
Lembrechts, J. J., Lenoir, J., Roth, N., et al. (2019). Comparing temperature data sources for use in species distribution models: From in-situ logging to remote sensing. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28, 1578-1596. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12974
*** All my publications on ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6469-3836 ***
If you want to read more about our working group, who my colleagues are and which projects we are working on: https://www.slu.se/institutioner/ekologi/foma1/jordbruk/