Specialization
I study how nutrients (especially N & P) & carbon flow through forest ecosystems and which is the impact of human activity on the cycles, 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.).
running projects:
- The effect of natural dieback of mountain spruce forest on microclimate, chemistry, and bio-diversity of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems - member of the research team, P504/12/1218, Jiří Kopáček, 2012 - 2016, GAČR
- Acidity and nutrient constraints on organic matter balance and nitrogen saturation in forest soils, acidity/N availability manipulative experiments in area of formerly high S/N deposition - co-investgater of the project, 14-33311S, Filip Oulehle, 2014 - 2016, GAČR
finished projects:
What are the main mechanisms affecting N flow through soil N pools in N saturated mountain soils? - co-investigator, KJB600960907, 2009-2011, GAAV, Jiří Kaňa
Brief CV
2012 Ph.D. Ecosystem Biology, dissertation thesis: N availability and transformation in soils of acidified and nitrogen saturated mountain forest ecosystems
2005 M.Sc. Applied ecology
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konference (list of participation in conferences):
2016 ISME– 16th International Symposium on microbial Ecology (poster): Microbial community regulates N loss in mountain forests after decades of acid deposition recovery (Tahovská et al.) (Montreal, Canada)
2015 Ecology of Soil Microorganisms - Microbes as Important Drivers of Soil Processes (poster): Microbial activity in the context of acid deposition – field manipulations with sulphur and/or nitrogen inputs to the forest soils (Tahovská et al.) (Czech Republic)
Aktuelle Ergebnisse der Böhmerwaldforschung (poster): In situ nitrogen availability in mountain soils following forest disturbances – N saturation symptoms mitigated (Tahovská et al.) (Germany)
2014 Biogeomon (2x poster): In-situ nitrogen availability in mountain soils following forest disturbances (Tahovská et al.); The importance of being DOC - microbial N immobilization in mountain soils (Tahovská et al.) (Bayreuth, Germany)
2012 Biogeomon (talk): Microbial N immobilization is of great importance in acidified and N-saturated mountain forest soils if carbon is available, USA (Maine)
2011 Ecology of Soil Microorganisms - Microbes as Important Drivers of Soil Processes (talk): „Are microorganisms adapted for mineral N assimilation in acidified soils, Czech Republic (Prague)
2011 Czech Ecological Society (CSPE) conference (poster): „Microbial N assimilation in primeval and N saturated forest soils (in Czech), Czech Republic (Kostelec nad Č. Lesy)
2010 EGU conference (2 posters): „Aluminum availability in forest floor of two acidified mountain watersheds“ (Kaňa and Tahovská) and „Nitrogen availability in mountain spruce forest floor after forest defoliation“ (Tahovská et al.), Austria (Vienna)
2009 Biogeomon (poster): “Microbial N transformations in N loaded spruce forest soils: immobilization of different 15N forms into microbial biomass”, Finland (Helsinki)
2008 Mountain soils under a changing climate and land-use (poster & short presentation): Microbial assimilation of nitrogen in N saturated mountain forest soils - 15N tracer study, Switzerland (Zürich)
2008 CSPE conference (poster): “N availability in mountain forest soils after forest defoliation” (in Czech), Czch Republic (Třeboň)
2007 Soil processes under extreme meteorological conditions (2x poster & 1x short presentation): „Nitrogen availability and fluxes in acidified mountain forest soils – in situ measurement“ (Tahovská et al.) and “N pools and seasonal fluxes in acidified mountain spruce forest soil” (Šantrůčková & Tahovská), Germany (Bayreuth)
2007 GORDON conference (poster): “Nitrogen pools and fluxes in the catchment-lake ecosystem of Plešné Lake (Czech Republic) prior to and after a bark beetle infestation“ (Kopáček et al.), USA (New Hampsire)
Publikace (list of publications):
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.