Research
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Various research projects have been run by individuals and groups of researchers and students using our Experimental Forests. They cover a wide range of topics on ecology, forestry and environmental sciences, such as plant and animal dynamics, ecosystem and environmental sciences, evolutionary ecology, and forest sustainability and management. Intensive field survey, long-term observation and analysis, in-situ experimental manipulation and cross-site comparison are conducted to address various research questions and hypothesis in those projects. The group of faculty members and technical staff in the Forest Research Station have been jointly conducting the long-term monitoring programs, fast-track researches and technical innovation programs that formally endorsed by the committee of Forest Research Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere. Besides, a number of researchers and students not only in our institute, by also in various faculty, graduate schools, universities and research institutes have been visiting the forests and actively conducting their own research in our Experimental Forests.
Plant and animal population dynamics
Ecosystem and environmental sciences
Conservation ecology
Forest sustainability and management
Projects of the Forest Research Station
Research Topics
PI : Principal Investigator
Development of a sustainable forestry regime in northern Hokkaido
[From 1966 - in progress]
- Study site：Nakagawa Experimental Forest
- PI：YOSHIDA Toshiya ・NAKAMURA Masahiro
Warming experiments: Impact of global warming on northern forest ecosystems
[From 2006 - in progress]
- Study site：Tomakomai Experimental Forest, Nakagawa Experimental Forest
- PI：NAKAMURA Masahiro・NAKAJI Tatsuro・HIURA Tsutomu
Development of integrated information on terrestrial ecosystem
[From 2010 - in progress]
- Study site：NakagawaExperimentar Forest , Uryu Experimentar Forest, Teshio Experimentar Forest, Tomakomai Experimental forests
- PI：SHIBATA Hideaki
Long-term research on nitrogen cycling in a cool-temperate forest ecosystem
- Study site：Uryu Experimental Forest
- PI：HIBATA Hideaki
Taxonomy and ecology of Armillaria
- Study site：Tomakomai, Uryu, Nakagawa, Teshio, Hiyama and Wakayama Research Forest
- PI：Joo Young Cha
Habitat use of mammals in natural and artificial forests
Japanese serow in Wakayama Experimental Forest
- Study site：Wakayama Experimental Forest, Tomakomai Experimental Forest, Yakushima
- PI：AGETSUMA Naoki
Long-term CO2 flux monitoring during a series of forestry activities
[From 2001-ongoing ]
- Study site：Teshio Experimental Forest
- PI：TAKAGI Kentaro
Large-scale forest biomass change evaluation using repeated airborn-Lidar observation
[From 2004-ongoing ]
- Study site：Teshio Experimental Forest
- PI：TAKAGI Kentaro
Long-term warming effects on soil respiration in a mixed forest
[From 2007-ongoing ]
- Study site：Teshio Experimental Forest
- PI：TAKAGI TAKAGI
Geographical variation of Quercus spp
- Study site：Uryu Experimental Forest
- PI：Masahiko Kadomatsu, AIZAWA Mineaki, HARADA Ko , SAITOH Hideyuki et al.
Large-scale ecological monitoring plots for satellite validation
[From 2015-ongoing ]
- Study site：Tomakomai Experimentar Forest, Uryu Experimental Forest
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PI：NAKAJI Tatsuro, SHIBATA Hideaki, NAKAMURA Masahiro, HIURA Tsutom, YOSHIDA
Toshiya
Effect of winter climate change on plant-soil system in forest ecosystems
- Study site：Nakagawa Experimentar Forest, Teshio Experimental Forest
- PI：KOBAYASHI Makoto , TAKAGI Kentaro
Atmospheric deposition, stream water chemistry and hydrological process in forest: Long-term change under changing environment
- Study site：Uryu Experimental Forest
- PI：FUKUZAWA Karibu, SHIBATA Hideaki, SATOH Fuyuki, TAKAGI Kentaro, NOMURA Mutsumi
Nitrogen addition experiment -> Watershed-scale nitrogen fertilization experiment
- Study site：Nakagawa Experimental Forest
- PI：FUKUZAWA Karibu, SHIBATA Hideaki, NOMURA Mutsumi, KOBAYASHI Makoto
Understory vegetation (Sasa) removal experiment: effect on nitrogen dynamics and tree growth
- Study site：Nakagawa Experimental Forest
- PI：FUKUZAWA Karibu, NOMURA Mutsumi, YOSHIDA Toshiya
Common-garden experiment by manipulating the plot-level genotypic diversity
[From 2015-continuation ]
- Study site：Nayoro Research Office
- PI：NAKAMURA Masahiro
Ecology of predator-prey interactions: experimental studies using larval amphibians
- Study site:Tomakomai ,Experimentar Forest, Uryu Experimentar Forest, Teshio Experimentar Forest
- PI:KISHIDA Osamu
Forest & snow hydrology: Hydrological processes in snowy forested watershed
- Study site:Teshio Experimental Forest, Nakagawa Experimental Forest, Uryu Experimental Forest
- PI:NOMURA Mutumi, TAKAGI Kentaro, FUKUZAWA Karibu, SATOH Fuyuki
Eco-evolutionary feedback in tree-associated arthropod communities
- Study site：Uryu Experimental Forest
- PI：UTSUMI Shunsuke
Research and monitoring collaborations
Japan Long-Term Ecological Research Network (JaLTER)
International LTER network (ILTER)
Japan Flux Network
Phenological Eyes Network
Biodiversity Monitoring Site 1000(Japanese only)
Keywords
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- Forest Environment Functions・Forest Soil・Hydrology・Material Cycling・Forest Rehabilitation
- Biogeochemistry・Soil・Stream water quality・Ecosystem ecology
- Forest micrometeorology・Ecosystem ecology・Carbon cycle・Climate change・Disturbance
- Forest hydrology・Snow hydrology・River discharge・Snowmelt・Water budget
- Nutrient dynamics・fine root・understory vegetation・forest management・stream water
- Mammal・Population ecology・Life history・DNA・Animal conservation
- mammal・behavior・disturbance・habitat・adaptation
- Biodiversity, Evolutionary community ecology, Eco-evolutionary feedback, Contemporary evolution, Genetics, Symbiosis, Phenotypic plasticity, Insect Ecology
- Evolutionary Ecology・Cannibalism・Community Ecology・Phenotypic plasticity・Intraspecific variation
