Ayu Toyota

Ph.D.

E-mail: ayuty@upb.cas.cz

Tel : ++ 420 387 775 774

Fax:++ 420 385 310 133

Current position

Postdoc

Academic qualification

Ph. D. in environment, 2004, Yokohama National University, Kanagawa, Japan

M.S. in engineering, 2001, Yokohama National University, Kanagawa, Japan

B.S. in agriculture, 1999, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Research areas

Soil faunal biology
1: How do soil animals influence soil ecosystem functioning?
2: Effects of soil macrofauna on carbon accumulation in soil.
3: Relation between soil faunal activities and plant growth.

Projects

Conflicting demands of land use, soil biodiversity and the sustainable delivery of ecosystem goods and services in Europe
Research on Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions (Global Environment Research Fund, Japan, 2008-2009)
Monitoring-site 1000 (Ministry of the Environment of Japan, 2004-2009)
Publications

10 scientific papers, of those 7 in peer-reviewed, 2 review articles and a conference proceeding. Two chapters in books.

Selected publications

Toyota, A., Kaneko, N., Ito, T. M. (2006) Soil ecosystem engineering by the train millipede Parafontaria laminata in a Japanese larch forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38, 1840-1850.

Toyota, A., Kaneko, N. (2004) Relation between larval train millipede density and soil microbial biomass under two different forests. Edaphologia 74, 15-25. in Japanese with English summary.

Toyota, A. (2004) The role of millipedes in detritus food webs in forest soil ecosystems. Japanese Journal of Ecology 54, 227-234. in Japanese.

Hashimoto, M., Kaneko, N., Ito, T. M., Toyota, A. (2004) Exploitation of litter and soil by train millipede Parafontaria laminata (Diplopoda: Xystodesmidae) in larch plantation forests in Japan. Pedobiologia 48, 71-81.

Kaneko, N., Kaneda, S., Hashimoto, M., Toyota, A., Furukawa, Y., Kamitani, T. (2005) Microcosm methods for the study of soil ecosystems. Edaphlogia 78, 19-30. in Japanese with English summary.