Marina Roth
Professur für Angewandte Vegetationsökologie
Tennenbacherstr. 4
Zimmer 3029
Tel. 0761/203-54042
oder 0761/4018-205
Research Interest:
- Vegetation Ecology
- Forest Ecosystems
- Nitrogen Deposition
- Soil-Plant Relationsships
- Diversity of vascular plants and bryophytes
Project: Effects of nitrogen deposition on eutrophication-sensitive temperate forest communities
This research aims to explore the correlations between deposition, the soil nitrogen content and changes in the understory vegetation of potentially eutrophication-sensitive forests in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg (southwest Germany). A database for the definition of critical limits (i.e. critical concentrations in the soil solution) for nitrogen will be created through the simultaneous assessment of vegetation and soil data in nitrogen-sensitive forest associations throughout Baden-Württemberg. In order to assess the critical limits, the conservation status of the forest associations will be defined by the proportion of untypical and nitrophilous species present.
Curriculum vitae:
Since April 2019
PhD Researcher, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Since April 2017
Research Associate at the Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany
Department: Forest Conservation
2013 - 2016
Study of Environmental Science, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Elective track: Wildlife, Vegetation & Biodiversity:
Master Thesis: "Effects of irrigation on the species composition and land use of differently managed grasslands in the Lower Engadin, Switzerland. An investigation of vegetation and grasshoppers".
Degree obtained: M.Sc
2009 - 2012
Study of Biosciences, Karl-Ruprechts-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Bachelor Thesis: “Development and application of chloroplast DNA markers for evolutionary analyses in the genus Aubrieta (Brassicaceae)”.
2011/2012: Erasmus exchange semester at Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Degree obtained: B.Sc
Publications:
Roth, M., Puhlmann, H., Sucker, C., Michiels, H.-G., Hauck, M. (2022) Manganese availability modies eutrophication signals in acidophilous temperate forests. Trees, Forests and People, 9, 100281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100281
Roth, M., Müller-Meißner, A., Michiels, H-G. & Hauck, M. (2021) Vegetation changes in the understory of nitrogen-sensitive temperate forests over the past 70 years. Forest Ecology and Management, 503, 119754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119754
Roth, M., Michiels, H-G., Puhlmann, H., Sucker, C. & Hauck, M. (2021) Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understory vegetation of temperate forests. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32, e13063. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13063
Roth, M., Günther, K., Michiels, H-G., Puhlmann, H., Sucker, C. & Hauck, M. (2021) Nitrogen deposition is positively correlated to foliar nitrogen content in Vaccinium myrtillus and other understory species in temperate forests on acidic soil. Acta Oecologica, 110, 103696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103696
Roth, M., Michiels, H-G., Puhlmann, H., Sucker, C., Winter M-B. & Hauck, M. (2021) Responses of Temperate Forests to Nitrogen Deposition: Testing the Explanatory Power of Modeled Deposition Datasets for Vegetation Gradients. Ecosystems, 24, 1222-1238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00579-4
Roth, M., Hoess, R., Lechleitner, M., Klieber-Kühne, A., Schneider, M. (2018) Räumliche und zeitliche Verteilung der Heuschrecken in den Wiesen um Sent. Mitteilungen der Bündner Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, 120, 27-34.
Smissen, R. D., Mitchell, C., Roth, M., & Heenan, P. B. (2015) Absence of hybridisation between Fuscospora species at a site in Arthur's Pass National Park, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 53, 168-174.