Specializace
ekologie rašelinišť
vliv odvodnění a revitalizace na fungování rašelinišť se zaměřením na produkci a emise skleníkových plynů z rašelinišť, vegetaci, diverzitu mikrobiálního společenstva, přeměny živin a kvalitu organické hmoty v rašeliništích
toky a bilance uhlíku na přirozených, odvodněných a revitalizovaných rašeliništích
Stručný životopis
1996 - 2001 high school Gymnázium Vimperk
2001 - 2007 Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic; graduated in biology, geology and geography; Master thesis: Mire flora and vegetation and their human alternation in the right-side Lipno area (Czech Republic).
2007 - 2012 Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, postgraduate study, specialization Ecosystem biology; Ph.D. thesis: Effect of drainage and restoration on the ecology of peatlands in the Šumava Mountains
2008 - present time: Department of Ecosystem Biology employee, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, research worker
Další informace
Study stays:
Department of Forest Sciences, Peatland Ecology group, University of Helsinki, Finland in 2009/2010 (three months).
Greencycles II Summer School, May 2011, Peyresq, France. Feedbacks in the Earth System: the stateof the art.
Faculty of Science and Forestry, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, August 2012, spruce mire study under the supervision of Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Teaching at international summer school Soil and Water: Tartu, Estonia, September 2013; Marseille, France 2014; Ulm, Germany 2015, České Budějovice 2016.
Ukončené projekty (Finished projects):
Vliv revitalizace dlouhodobě odvodněných rašelinišť na funkční diverzitu půdních mikroorganismů ve vztahu ke kvalitě organické hmoty. Postdoktorský projekt GAČR, doba řešení 2014-2016, řešitel
Effect of hydrological restoration of long-term drained peatlands on functional diversity of soil microorganisms in relation to organic matter quality, postdok project GAČR (Czech Science Foundation), 2014 - 2016, investigator of the project
Publications:
Brittany A. Verbeke , Louis J. Lamit , Erik A. Lilleskov , Suzanne B. Hodgkins, Nathan Basiliko, Evan S. Kane, Roxane Andersen, et al., Zuzana Urbanová, et al. and Jeffrey P. Chanton, 2022. Latitude, Elevation, and Mean Annual Temperature Predict Peat Organic Matter Chemistry at a Global Scale. Global Biogeochemical cycles 36, DOI: 10.1029/2021GB007057
Urbanová, Z. and Hájek, T. 2021. Revisiting the concept of ‘enzymic latch’ on carbon in peatlands. Science of the Total Environment 779: 146384. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146384
Urbanová, Z., and Bárta, J. 2020. Recovery of methanogenic community and its activity in long-term drained peatlands after rewetting. Ecological Engineering, 150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2020.105852
Chroňáková, A., Bárta, J., Kaštovská, E., Urbanová, Z., Picek, T. 2019. Spatial heterogeneity of belowground microbial communities linked to peatland microhabitats with different plant dominants. FEMS microbiology Ecology, 95. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiz130
Mastný, J., E. Kaštovská, J. Bárta, A. Chroňáková, J. Borovec, H. Šantrůčková, Z. Urbanová, K. R. Edwards, a T. Picek. 2018. Quality of DOC produced during litter decomposition of peatland plant dominants. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 121: 221-230.
Urbanová, Z., Straková, P., Kaštovská, E., 2018. Response of peat biogeochemistry and soil organic matter quality to rewetting in bogs and spruce swamp forests. European J. of Soil Biology 85, 12-22.
Kaštovská, E., Straková, P., Edwards, K., Urbanová, Z., Bárta, J., Mastný, J., Šantrůčková, H., Picek, T., 2018. Cotton-grass and blueberry have opposite effect on peat characteristics and nutrient transformation in peatland. Ecosystems 21, 443-458.
Mastný, J., Urbanová, Z., Kaštovská, E., Straková, P., Šantrůčková, H. and Picek, T. 2016. Soil organic matter quality and microbial activities in spruce swamp forests affected by drainage and water regime restoration. Soil Use and Management 32, 200–209.
Urbanová, Z. and Bárta, J. 2016. Effects of long-term drainage on microbial community composition vary between peatland types. Soil Biol Biochem 92, 16-26.
Urbanová, Z. and Bárta, J. 2014. Microbial community composition and in silico predicted metabolic potential reflect biogeochemical gradients between distinct peatland types. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 90, 633-646.
Urbanová, Z., Picek, T., I., Tuittila, E.-S., 2013. Sensitivity of carbon gas fluxes to weather variability on pristine, drained and rewetted temperate bogs. Mires and Peat 11, article 04.
Urbanová, Z., Bárta, J., Picek, T., 2013. Methane emissions and methanogenic Archaea on
pristine, drained and restored mountain peatlands, Central Europe. Ecosystems 16, 664-677.
Urbanová, Z., Picek, T., Hájek, T., Bufková, I., Tuittila, E.-S., 2012. Vegetation and carbon gas dynamics under a changed hydrological regime in central European peatlands. Plant Ecology & Diversity 5, 89-103.
Urbanová, Z., Picek, T., Bárta, J., 2011. Effect of peat re-wetting on carbon and nutrient fluxes, greenhouse gas production and diversity of methanogenic archaeal community. Ecological Engineering 37:1017–1026.