Specialization
I study how nitrogen, phosphorus & carbon flow through forest ecosystems with the main focus on their soil transformations and which is the impact of human activity on the cycles (N saturation, acidification), primarily on nitrogen retention and C-N(P) cycle interactions. I use field observations in combination with field and lab manipulative experiments (bio-chemical soil analyses, stable isotopes, ion resins etc.).
Brief CV
Education
2005–2012 Ph.D. (2012, in Ecosystem Biology) Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia (USB), thesis N availability and transformation in soils of acidified and N saturated mountain forest ecosystems, interrupted 2009–2011 maternity leave I., defended “cum laude”, awarded by Dean´s award for excellence
2000–2005 Bc. in Biology, M.Sc. in Applied ecology, Faculty of Science, USB
Professional experience
June 2018 & 2019 mobility internships IVL – Env. Res. Institute, Göteborg, SWE (Dr. F. Moldan)
2015–up to now established scientist, Faculty of Science USB
2013–2014 maternity leave II.
2007–2009 researcher, Inst. of Hydrobiology, BC ASCR, CZ (prof. J. Kopáček)
2006 research stay (3 month), University of Vienna (prof. A. Richter)
2005 international school Land-Use, land-use change and forest history, Nancy, France
2005–2006 part-time technician, fuels development laboratory, R. Bosch CZ
Project experience
- co-investigator, project: GeoMicLink: Microbial imprint in catchment scale nutrient retention (2020-2022, Czech Science Foundation, No. 20-191471S)
- co-investigator, project: Acidity and nutrient constraints on organic matter balance and N saturation in forest soils (2014-2016, Czech Science Foundation No. 14-33311S)
- co-investigator, project: What are the main mechanisms affecting N flow through soil N pools in N saturated mountain soils? (2009-2011, KJB600960907, Grant Agency of ASCR)
- administrator and team member, project: An interdisciplinary study on element cycling in mountain catchment-lake systems regenerating from tree dieback (2019-2021, Czech Science Foundation 19-16605S)
- administrator and team member, project: Phosphorus dynamics in unmanaged terrestrial ecosystems: Links with N and C cycling (2017-2019, Czech Science Foundation No. 17-15229S)
- researcher at SoWa Research Infrastructure (2016–2020, projects No. LM2015075, EF16_013/0001782, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports CZ–MEYS)
- team member, project: The effect of natural dieback of mountain spruce forest on microclimate, chemistry and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems (2012–2016, Czech Science Foundation No. P504/12/1218)
Bibliography:
IF papers = 16, h-index= 9 (WoS); 10 (Scopus); citations with (without) self-citations: 300 (267) (WoS); 327 (290) (Scopus)
Other professional activities: teaching: Soil pollution and degradation; Ecology and environment
reviewer: Catena, Environmental Science & Pollution Research, Forest Ecology and management,
Ecological Engineering, Environmental Science & Technology, Geoderma, Oecologia, Soil & Tillage,
STOTEN, Environmental Pollution, Soil Systems
reviewer of Internal Grant Agency (FA, Mendelu Brno, CZ);
Czech Ecological Society member
More information
List of publications:
Tahovská, K., Choma, M., kaštovská, E., Oulehle, F., Bárta, J., Šantrůčková, H., Moldan, F., 2020. Positive response of soil microbes to long-term nitrogen input in spruce forest: Results from Gårdsjön whole-catchment N-addition experiment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 143, 107732.
Kaňa, J., Kopáček, J., Tahovská, K., Šantrůčková, H.,2019. Tree dieback and related changes in nitrogen dynamics modify the concentrations and proportions of cations on soil sorption complex. Ecological Indicators 97, 319-328,
Tahovská, K., Čapek, P., Šantrůčková, H., Kopáček, J., 2018. In situ phosphorus dynamic in soil: long-term ion-exchange resin study. Biogeochemistry 139 (3), 307-320.
Oulehle, F., K. Tahovská, T. Chuman, C. D. Evans, J. Hruska, M. Růžek, a J. Bárta. 2018. Comparison of the impacts of acid and nitrogen additions on carbon fluxes in European conifer and broadleaf forests. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 238: 884–893.
Bárta, J., Tahovská, K., Šantrůčková, H., Oulehle, F., 2017. Microbial communities with distinct denitrification potential in spruce and beech soils differing in nitrate leaching. Scientific Reports 7 (1), 10.1038/s41598-017-08554-1.
Oulehle, F., Růžek, M, Tahovská, K., Bárta, J., Myška, O., 2016. Carbon and nitrogen pools and fluxes in adjacent mature norway spruce and european beech forests. Forests 7(11), 282.
Tahovská, K., Čapek, P., Kaňa, J., Kopáček, J., Šantrůčková, H., 2016. Measurement of in situ phosphorus availability in acidified soils using iron infused resin, Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 47 (4), 487 - 494.
Staňková P., Tahovská K., Šantrůčková H., in press: Anthropogenic impact on nitrogen transformation in spruce forests of central European mountains - a review. Silva Gabreta 21 (1)
Vrba, J., Kopáček, J., Tahovská, K., Šantrůčková, H., 2015. Long-term ecological research of glacial lakes in the Bohemian Forest and their catchments. Silva Gabreta 21, 53-71.
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 DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0134165
Kopáček, J., Cosby, B.J., Evans, C.D., Hruška, J., Moldan, F., Oulehle, F., Šantrůčková, H., Tahovská, K., Wright, R.F., 2013. Nitrogen, organic carbon and sulphur cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: linking nitrogen saturation to carbon limitation of soil microbial processes. Biogeochemistry 115 (1-3), 33-51.
Tahovská, K., Kaňa, J., Bárta, J., Oulehle, F., Richter, A., Šantrůčková, H., 2013. Microbial N immobilization is of great importance in acidified mountain spruce forest soils, Soil Biology and Biochemistry 59, 58-71.
Kaňa, J., Tahovská, K., Kopáček, J., 2013. Changes in soil chemistry after bark beetle infestation and forest dieback, Biogeochemistry (in press) DOI: 10.1007/s10533-012-9765-5.
Hruška J., Oulehle F., Šamonil P., Šebesta J., Tahovská K., Hleb R., Houška J., Šikl (2012). Long term forest soil acidification, nutrient leaching and vegetation development: Linking modelling and surveys of a primeval spruce forest in the Ukrainian Transcarpathian Mts. Ecological Modelling 244: 28-37.
Oulehle F., Evans C.D., Hofmeister J., Krejčí R., Tahovská K., Persson T., Cudlín P., Hruška J. (2011) Major changes in forest carbon and nitrogen cycling caused by declining sulphur deposition. Global Change Biology 17: 3115-3129.
Tahovská, K., Šantrůčková, H., Kopáček , J., 2010. Nitrogen availability in Norway spruce forest floor - the effect of forest defoliation induced by bark beetle infestation. Boreal Environment Research 15 (6): 553 – 564.
Šantrůčková, H., Tahovská, K., Kopáček , J., 2009. Nitrogen transformations and pools in N saturated mountain spruce forest soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils 45 (4): 395 – 404.
Skopcová, K., Šantrůčková, H., 2006. The effect of temperature on nitrogen transformations in mountain forest soils of Plešné, Černé, and Čertovo Lake watersheds, Silva Gabreta 12 (1), 3 - 14.