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Ecosystem Management Lab
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A lab that works to protect forest, river, and wetland ecosystems and to develop methods for restoring them.
AboutAbout the lab
Tackling biodiversity, climate change, and nature restoration.
The Ecosystem Management Lab studies a wide range of terrestrial ecosystems, including forests, rivers and wetlands, grasslands, farmland, and cities.
The lab clarifies how ecosystems work and the benefits that nature provides to people (ecosystem services), and applies this to developing ecosystem management technologies and plans.
Its three main issues are conserving biodiversity, addressing climate change, and restoring degraded nature.
The organisms and methods studied are diverse, combining field surveys, laboratory experiments, and computer-based analysis.
Key terms
- Ecosystem services
- The various benefits people receive from ecosystems, such as water, timber, and the flood-moderating function.
- Disturbance
- An event, such as a disaster or logging, that drastically changes the state of an ecosystem.
- Adaptation measures
- Measures to reduce damage from climate change, on the premise that its impacts are already occurring.
NewsLab news
A master's student won a Poster Award at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Revegetation Technology
A master's student won a Presentation Award at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Bryological Society of Japan
A student won the Best Poster Award at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan
Prof. Morimoto received the Yoshie Katsurada Award from Hokkaido University
A master's student won an Outstanding Poster Award at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Revegetation Technology
ResearchResearch themes
Targeting a variety of terrestrial ecosystems, the lab clarifies ecosystem structure and function and ecosystem services, and on that basis develops ecosystem management technologies and plans. Its research addresses three goals: conserving biodiversity, addressing climate change, and restoring degraded nature.
*Illustrative imageEffects of land use and disturbance on organisms
The lab clarifies how changes in land use, and disturbances caused by natural disasters or human activities, affect biodiversity and ecosystem services.
*Illustrative imageClimate change and forests, rivers, and wetlands
Based on how ecosystems such as forests, rivers, and wetlands respond to climate change, the lab considers mitigation and adaptation measures. The lab believes that protecting and restoring wetlands can serve as an adaptation measure against extreme events such as floods, and can also provide habitat for wildlife.
*Illustrative imageRestoring degraded ecosystems
The lab studies how to restore healthy forests and wetlands on land that has changed drastically, such as sites left behind by natural disasters or mining, and abandoned farmland.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Ecosystem Management Lab consist of faculty, research fellows, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and administrative and technical support staff.As of 2026
- ProfessorJunko Morimoto
- Associate ProfessorNobuo Ishiyama
- Assistant ProfessorKazuhiro Kawamura
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Kushirositsugen Hosooka Tenboudai01” 欅 (Keyaki) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Effects of land use and disturbance on organisms: “Patchwork hills - biei - panoramio” taku-k / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Climate change and forests, rivers, and wetlands: “Kushiro-Shitsugen Kushiro-river” MaedaAkihiko / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Restoring degraded ecosystems: “Wetland restoration in Australia” Nick carson at English Wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
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