Thomas SattlerDr.

Contact

+41 41 462 97 25
thomas.sattler@vogelwarte.ch

Swiss Ornithological Institute
Seerose 1
6204 Sempach
Switzerland

Functions

State of the Avifauna employee

Domain

Research

Unit

State of the Avifauna

Networks

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Projects

State of the Avifauna

Swiss Breeding Bird Atlas 2013-2016

Details

2022-present	Project leader research unit "Situation of the birds"
2014-2022	Director of the Monitoring Department at the Swiss Ornithological Institute Sempach
2011 -2013	Post-doc researcher at the Smithonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama and University of Ulm (ecology and spatial distribution of aerial insectivorous bat species)
2009 -2011	Post-doc researcher at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Birmensdorf (biodiversity indicator analysis)
2008-2008	Scientific visit Spatial Ecology group (Prof. P. Legendre), Université de Montréal, Canada
2006-2009	PhD at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Birmensdorf and University of Berne (urban biodiversity)
2004-2005	SWILD - research and consulting association, Zürich (urban ecology, wildlife research, nature conservation and communication)
1997-2003	Studies of Biology at the Universities of Basel, Caracas and Berne

FURTHER PUBLICATIONS

Full publication list (scholar.google.ch)

Mobility explains the response of aerial insectivorous bats to anthropogenic habitat change in the Neotropics
Bader, E., K. Jung, E.K.V. Kalko, R. A. Page, R. Rodriguez & T. Sattler (2015)
Biological Conservation. 186, 97-106. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.02.028

Spatial Arrangement Overrules Environmental Factors to Structure Native and Non-Native Assemblages of Synanthropic Harvestmen
Muster, C., M. Meyer & T. Sattler (2014)
PLoS ONE. 9(3):e90474. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090474

Selection of Multiple Umbrella Species for Functional and Taxonomic Diversity to Represent Urban Biodiversity
Sattler, T., G.B. Pezzatti, M.P. Nobis, M.K. Obrist, T. Roth & M. Moretti (2013)
Conservation Biology. 28, 414-426. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12213

A continental-scale tool for acoustic identification of European bats
Walters, C.L., R. Freeman, C. Dietz, M.B. Fenton, G. Jones, A. Maltby, M.K. Obrist, S.J. Puechmaille, T. Sattler, B.M. Siemers, S. Parsons & K.E. Jones (2012)
Journal of Applied Ecology. 49, 1064–1074. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02182.x

A continental-scale tool for acoustic identification of European bats
Sattler, T., P. Duelli, M. K. Obrist & M. Moretti (2011)
Landscape and Urban Planning. 103, 347-361. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.08.008

How to manage the urban green to enhance bird species richness and diversity
Sattler, T., D. Borcard, R. Arlettaz, F. Bontadina, P. Legendre, M.K. Obrist & M. Moretti (2010)
Ecology. 91, 3343-3353. doi: 10.1890/09-1810.1

Response of arthropod species richness and functional groups to urban habitat structure and management
Sattler, T., P. Duelli, M.K. Obrist, R. Arlettaz & M. Moretti (2010)
Landscape Ecology. 25, 941-954. doi: 10.1007/s10980-010-9473-2

Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms
Vandewalle, M., F. de Bello, M.P. Berg, T. Bolger, S. Dolédec, F. Dubs, C.K. Feld, R. Harrington, P.A. Harrison, S. Lavorel, P. Martins da Silva, M. Moretti, J. Niemelä, P. Santos, T. Sattler, J. Paulo Sousa, M.T. Sykes, A.J. Vanbergen & B. A. Woodcock (2010). Biodiversity and Conservation. 19, 2921-2947. doi: 10.1007/s10531-010-9798-9

Ecological niche modelling of two cryptic bat species calls for a reassessment of their conservation status
Sattler, T., F. Bontadina, A. Hirzel & R. Arlettaz (2007)
Journal of Applied Ecology, 44, 1188-1199. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01328.x