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Silviculture Lab
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A lab that studies how forests change and how trees function in order to grow and protect forests.
AboutAbout the lab
Research on trees and forests for growing and protecting forests.
The Silviculture Lab aims to grow and protect forests, conducting research on how to cultivate and manage natural forest and plantation forest resources.
It investigates long-term forest change, tree characteristics, genetic analysis and breeding, and the mechanisms by which fallen leaves and other litter decompose and nutrients cycle in the forest.
Management of plantation forests as timber resources and the responses of trees to various stresses are also subjects of research.
The lab also studies tree diseases and the fungi involved in decomposing fallen leaves and other matter.
Key terms
- Silviculture
- The field that studies the techniques for growing and managing forests, and the workings of trees and forests that underlie them.
- Plantation forest
- A forest grown from seedlings planted by people. A forest that sprouted and grew naturally is called a natural forest.
- Disturbance
- An event such as a typhoon, wildfire, or logging that greatly changes the state of a forest.
ResearchResearch themes
To understand large and complex forests, the lab pursues research that focuses on the community, individual, and leaf levels and links them together. The aim is to sustainably produce and protect forest resources in a rapidly changing environment.
*Illustrative imageResponses of Forest Plants to a Changing Environment
The lab studies how forest plants respond to environments that are changing greatly, such as through warming, using field experiments and experiments in controlled environments. This research provides a foundation for growing forests and restoring ecosystems on degraded land.
*Illustrative imageForest Change After Typhoon Wind Damage
The lab has continued to study, from right after the damage, the deciduous broadleaf forest in the Tomakomai Research Forest, which suffered major wind damage from the 1954 Toya Maru Typhoon. By tracking tree growth and death, it aims to clarify how forests develop after a large-scale disturbance.
*Illustrative imageHow Trees Flower and Bear Fruit
Reproductive traits, namely flowering and bearing fruit, are essential for understanding how forests renew themselves from generation to generation. To help with the management of deciduous broadleaf forests, the lab studies the reproductive traits of deciduous broadleaf trees in Hokkaido.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Silviculture Lab are faculty, researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and collaborative researchers.As of 2026
- ProfessorToshizumi Miyamoto
- LecturerHideyuki Saito
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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: “Fagus crenata in Mount Daimon” Alpsdake / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Responses of Forest Plants to a Changing Environment: “Fagus crenata leaves front” Alpsdake / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Forest Change After Typhoon Wind Damage: “Sihlwald windthrow Spinnerweg” Daniel Kraft / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- How Trees Flower and Bear Fruit: “Fagus crenata flower and fruits” Alpsdake / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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