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Grassland Animal Production Ecology Lab
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The lab examines grazing-based animal production from the perspectives of sustainability and animal welfare.
AboutAbout the lab
Building grazing technologies for sustainability, the environment, and animal welfare
The Grassland Animal Production Ecology Lab studies the relationships among soil, plants, and animals, centered on animal production on grassland.
It applies the findings to livestock farming, aiming to advance sustainable animal production that takes animal welfare into account.
Its main current research subject is grazing-based animal production. Moving away from livestock farming that mass-produces meat and milk cheaply, the lab aims to develop grazing production technologies that value ecosystem conservation and animal welfare.
The main research site is the affiliated Complex Ecosystem Field Education and Research Center in Naruko Onsen, Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture.
Key terms
- Animal welfare
- The idea of keeping living animals ethically. The housing environment is arranged to maintain the animals' physical and mental health
- Grassland ecosystem
- A grassland unit formed by the interrelations among forage grasses, livestock, wild grasses, wild animals, and soil
- Recharging water sources
- The function of holding rainwater in the soil to sustain water sources
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Grasslands and prairies host grassland ecosystems that involve not only forage grasses and livestock but also native wild grasses and woody plants, wild animals, and soil. The lab clarifies the relationships within grassland ecosystems and their interactions with the environment, and applies the findings to livestock farming to advance sustainable animal production that takes animal welfare into account.
*Illustrative imageEcology of grasslands and prairies
Grassland and prairie ecology is one of the lab's research pillars. One topic is research on sustainable grazing systems. It has become clear that grasslands and prairies serve functions beyond livestock production, such as preventing soil erosion, recharging water sources, and conserving biodiversity.
*Illustrative imageAnimal health and welfare
Animal health and welfare is another of the lab's research pillars. Animal welfare is the idea of keeping living animals ethically, and its method is to arrange the housing environment so as to maintain their physical and mental health.
MembersFaculty
The Grassland Animal Production Ecology Lab's members consist of faculty and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- ProfessorShinichiro Ogura
- Assistant ProfessorRige Qian
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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: “Cattle grazing in pastoral landscape off Pulaski Highway, Goshen, NY” Daniel Case / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ecology of grasslands and prairies: “1 Caño Tiburones grasslands” Ligocsicnarf89 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Animal health and welfare: “Free-range beef - geograph.org.uk - 574568” Jonathan Billinger / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (応用昆虫学): “Flatid leaf bugs and nymphs (Phromnia rosea)” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (植物病理学): “Cucumber mosaic virus symptoms” William M. Brown Jr. / CC BY 3.0 us (cropped)
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- Related lab (農業経営学): “(Landscape of rice fields and agricultural terracing in Japan) - DPLA - efedd36882e2f87dd5086186b61df091” Carlquist, Sherwin John / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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