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Regional Resource Management Lab (Fukuzawa)
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Research that measures the functions of forests through tree roots and the flow of materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Measuring forest functions from the roots
Associate Professor Karibu Fukuzawa studies the dynamics of forest roots and the environmental functions of forests.
Through fieldwork and chemical analysis, the lab traces the flow of materials and evaluates the environmental functions of forests.
Focusing especially on the role of roots at the boundary between plants and soil, the lab has found, for example, that the amount of root production rivals the amount of leaf litter.
In the vast Teshio Experimental Forest, which consists mainly of natural forest, the lab also studies how environmental change and anthropogenic disturbance affect the environmental functions of forests.
Key terms
- Rhizosphere
- The roots of a plant and the surrounding range of soil influenced by them
- Ecosystem function
- Functions, such as material cycling, that arise from the connections between living things and their environment
- Anthropogenic disturbance
- Major changes in the state of a forest caused by human activities such as logging
ResearchResearch themes
From the perspectives of forest ecology and biogeochemistry, the lab studies rhizosphere dynamics and ecosystem functions in forests. It invites students: "Would you like to measure for yourself how important forests are to humans?"
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- Associate ProfessorKaribu Fukuzawa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Usnea and Sasa kurilensis in a Larix kaempferi plantation, Japan - odako1” Koichi Oda / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Root dynamics and ecosystem functions in forests: “Tangled roots - geograph.org.uk - 1554097” James Allan / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Biodiversity Lab (Uetake)): “Taylor Glacier, cryoconite hole” Peter Rejcek, NSF / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Ecosystem Function Lab): “Teshio River2” 河川一等兵 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ecosystem Function Lab (Urakawa)): “Creek stream - panoramio” Babiesan / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Regional Resource Management Lab): “Abies sachalinensis, Gora Lopatina, Sakhalin” User:Lupus-sapiens / CC0 (cropped)
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