Specialization
Microbial transformation of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in soil, microbial carbon use efficiency, ecological stoichiometry, use of natural abundance of stable isotopes to study microbial processes in soil.
Brief CV
I am professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Science USB in České Budějovice. I completed M.Sc. degree at Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague and PhD degree at the Institute of Microbiology in Prague. I continued my research of microbial transformations of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in soil at the Institute of Soil Biology in České Budějovice and my research of soil organic carbon transformations using natural abundance of stable isotopes at Australian National University in Canberra.
Education:
2005 Professor – Ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, USB in České Budějovice
2000 Associated Professor - Ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, USB in České Budějovice
1988 PhD. - Ecology, specialization Microbiology (Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Professor V. Vančura and Professor M. Tesařová)
1979 Ing. (MSc.) – Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague (plant production)
Scientific Career:
2007 - Faculty of Science USB (till 2013 head of Dept. Ecosystem Biology, from 2019 dean of the Faculty)
2016 - 2018 Soil & Water Research Infrastructure (SoWa), Biology Centre CAS
2000 - 2007 Faculty of Biological Sciences, USB - head of Department of Ecology & Hydrobiology
1997 - 2000 Faculty of Biological Sciences, USB - lecturer
Institute of Soil Biology AS CR – scientist
1994 – 1997 Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, visiting fellow
1989 - 1994 Institute of Soil Biology CAS – scientist
1981 – 1989 postdoctoral study, Institute of Soil Biology CAS, České Budějovice, (including parental leave from 1982 to 1986)
1980 - 1981 Laboratory of Soil Biology, Institute of Landscape Ecology CAS, České Budějovice
1979 – 1980 Dept. Ecol. Microorg., Institute of Microbiology CAS, Prague
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Professional Activities & Responsibilities:
• Principal investigator (PI) in the project of the Commission of EC (CROPCHANGE, EV5V CT92-0169) (1993- 1995)
• visiting fellow in the Group of Environmental Biology RSBS ANU, Canberra, Australia (1995-1996)
• visiting fellow in the Group of Organic Geochemistry RSES ANU, Canberra, Australia (1996-1997)
• visiting professor at SLU, Uppsala (August 2013 – December 2013)
• BOBCAT (“Boat on a Boreal Carbon Tour”) campaign to Central Siberia jointly undertaken by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Jena, Germany) and the Institute of Forest (Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 1998)
• subcontractor in the EU project EMERGE (EVK1-CT-1999-00032) - data specialist for soil chemistry and biology
• PI of EU project TCOS-Siberia (EVK2-2002-00555) – in the frame of NAS call (2002 - 2005)
• bilateral collaboration with University of Davis, California supported by NSF and Czech Ministry of Education (2007-2009)
• PI of CryoCarb project awarded by ESF in the frame of Polar Climate Call (2011-2013)
• National projects awarded from 2006: Coordinator of 1 project (Ministry of Youth, Sport and Education, 2006-2012), co-PI of five projects (Grant Agency of the Czech Republic)
• president of Czech Society for Ecology (2007-2012)
• program director of MSc. and Ph.D. specializations of Ecosystem Biology/Ecology
• member of the senate of the Faculty of Science USB (from 2016-2018 chairman)
• president of Ethical Committee of the USB
• reviewer of ISI-listed scientific journals
Areas of Competence:
Current research and interests include: (i) carbon sequestration and mineralization in arctic and boreal forest soils (ii) carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) transformations in forest soils (iii) link between C, N and P cycling in soil – decomposer biomass stoichiometry, extracellular enzymes production (iv) effect of acidification, eutrophication and forest management on soil biochemistry (v) link between soil processes and vegetation cover in various ecosystems.
Teaching Activities (some courses are not opened each year):
• Stable Isotopes in Environmental Sciences, Ecology and Physiology (http://www.wzw.tum.de/isotopeschool/index.htm, from 2003-)
• Stable isotopes in Biology (University of Vienna, 2007-2008)
• Carbon in agricultural and forest soils (University of Helsinki, 2011)
• Biogeochemical cycles (USB in České Budějovice, in Czech from 2006)
• Biogeochemistry (USB in České Budějovice, in Czech from 2017-)
• Soil Ecology (USB in České Budějovice, in Czech from 1998-, in English from 2016-)
• Soil microbiology (USB in České Budějovice, in Czech, from 2002-2016)
• Global biogeochemical cycles (Charles Univ. in Prague, in Czech 2011-2016)
• supervisor of Bc, M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses
Publication record (ORCID):
WOS - 2913 citations without self-citations, 126 publications in impacted journals, 4 chapters in books
h-index = 31
List of 10 most important publications 2015-2019:
1. Šantrůčková, H., Cienciala, E., Kaňa, J., & Kopáček, J. 2019. The chemical composition of forest soils and their degree of acidity in Central Europe. Science of The Total Environment, 687, 96-103. IF 5.58
2. Šantrůčková H., Kotas P., Bárta J., Urich T., Čapek P., Palmtag J. et al. (2018) Significance of dark CO2 fixation in arctic soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 119, 11- 21. IF 4.93
3. Čapek, P.T. Manzoni, S., Kaštovská, E., Wild, B., Diákova, K., Bárta, J., Schnecker, J., Blasi, C., Martikainen, P.J., Alves, R.J.E., Guggenberger, G., Gentsch, N., Hugelius, G., Palmtag J., Mikutta, R., Shibistova, O., Urich, T., Schleper, C., Richter, A., Šantrůčková H. (2018) A plant–microbe interaction framework explaining nutrient effects on primary production. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1588. IF 10.97
4. Manzoni S., Čapek P., Mooshammer M., Lindahl B.D., Richter A. and Šantrůčková H. (2017) Optimal metabolic regulation along resource stoichiometry gradients. Ecology Letters 20, 1182-1191. IF 9.14
5. Kaštovská, E., Edwards, K., Šantrůčková, H. (2017) Rhizodeposition flux of competitive versus conservative graminoid: contribution of exudates and root lysates as affected by N loading. Plant and Soil, 412, 331-344. IF 3.31
6. Čapek P., Kotas P., Manzoni S., Šantrůčková H. (2016) Drivers of phosphorus limitation across soil microbial communities. Funct Ecol 30, 1705–1713. IF 5.49
7. Schädel, C., Bader, M. K. F., Schuur, E. A., Biasi, C., Bracho, R., Čapek, P., De Baets, S., Diáková K., Ernakovich, J., Estop-Aragones, C., Graham, D.E., Hartley, I.P., Iversen, C.M., Kane, E., Knoblauch, C. Lupascu, M., Martikainen,P.J., Natali, S.M., Norby, R.J., O’Donnell, J.A., Chowdhury, T.R., Šantrůčková, H., Shaver, G., Sloan, V.L., Treat, C.C., Turetsky, M.R., Waldrop, M.P., Wickland K.P., (2016). Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils. Nature Climate Change. 6, 950-953. IF 19.18
8. Čapek P., Diáková K., Dickopp J.-E., Bárta J., Wild B., Schnecker J., Alves R.J.E., Aiglsdorfer S., Guggenberger G., Gentsch N., Hugelius G., Lashchinsky N., Gittel A., Schleper C., Mikutta R., Palmtag J., Shibistova O., Urich T., Richter A., Šantrůčková H. (2015) The effect of warming on the vulnerability of subducted organic carbon in arctic soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 90, 19-29. IF 4.41
9. Kaňa J., Tahovská K., Kopáček J., Šantrůčková H. (2015) Excess of organic carbon in mountain spruce forest soils after bark beetle outbreak altered microbial N
transformations and mitigated N-saturation. PLoS ONE 10: e0134165. IF 3.23
10. Kaštovská E., Edwards K., Picek T., Šantrůčková H. (2015) A larger investment into exudation by competitive versus conservative plants is connected to more coupled plant-microbe N cycling. Biogeochemistry 122, 47-59. IF 3.73