BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD
Research Fellow & Associate Member, Environmental Futures Centre
Contact details for Dr Hannah Toberman
Research Expertise
- Effects of environmental change on soil and litter microbial activity and organic matter decomposition
- Soil and litter chemistry
- Interactions between plant and microbial communities
- Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in terrestrial ecosystems
Current Projects
- Linkage between biogeochemical cycling and forest diversity, function and stability: effects of frequent prescribed burning
Publications
- H. Toberman, R. Laiho, C.D. Evans, R.R.E. Artz, N. Fenner, P. Straková, C. Freeman (2010) ‘Long-term drainage for forestry inhibits extracellular phenol oxidase activity in Finnish boreal mire peat’. European Journal of Soil Science, In press (early view published online 20/09/10 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2010.01292.x)
- P. M. Currey, D. Johnson, L. J. Sheppard, I. D. Leith, H. Toberman, R. Van der Wal, L. A. Dawson, R.R.E Artz (2010) ‘Turnover of labile and recalcitrant soil carbon differ in response to nitrate and ammonium deposition in an ombrotrophic peatland’. Global Change Biology 16 (8): 2307-2321
- H. Toberman, C.D. Evans, C. Freeman, N. Fenner, M. White, B. A. Emmett, R.R.E. Artz (2008) ‘Summer drought effects upon soil and litter extracellular phenol oxidase activity and soluble carbon release in an upland Calluna heathland’. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40 (6): 1519-1532
- H. Toberman, R.R.E. Artz, C. Freeman, C.D. Evans, N. Fenner (2008) ‘Enhanced summer droughts decrease soil fungal diversity and inhibit fungal associated extracellular phenol oxidase activity in upland Calluna heathland soil’. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 66 (2): 426-436
- H. Toberman, C. Freeman, C.D. Evans, N. Fenner, R.R.E. Artz (2008) ‘Impeded drainage stimulates extracellular phenol oxidase activity in riparian peat cores’. Soil Use and Management 24 (4): 357-365
- L. Bragazza, C. Freeman, T. Jones, H. Rydin, J. Limpens, N. Fenner, T. Ellis, R.Gerdola, M. Hajek, T. Hajek, P. Iacumin, L. Kutnark, T. Tahvanainen, H.Toberman (2006) ‘Atmospheric nitrogen deposition promotes carbon loss from peat bogs’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (51): 19386-19389