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Green Space Ecology Lab (Momohara)
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The lab reads how vegetation and environments have changed over time from fossil seeds and leaves.
AboutAbout the lab
The origins of present-day vegetation, told by plant fossils.
The lab studies how the plants and vegetation of Japan and East Asia came to be as they are today.
Using plant fossils such as seeds, fruits, and leaves as clues, the lab investigates how Quaternary climate change, and the effects of human–nature interactions since the Jomon period, have shaped vegetation.
The lab places importance on fieldwork. Together with researchers in other fields such as geology and archaeology, lab members walk through strata and archaeological sites in various regions to collect plant fossils.
Key terms
- Vegetation
- The collection of plants growing in a given place, such as forests, wetlands, and grasslands
- Quaternary
- The period from about 2.6 million years ago to the present, when glacial and interglacial periods repeated and the climate changed dramatically
- Sediment
- Sand, mud, and other material piled up on lake beds and similar places, trapping seeds, pollen, and other remains from the time
NewsLab news
Co-authored paper by Prof. Momohara and colleagues wins the 8th Japanese Association for Vegetation History Paper Award
In collaboration with FFPRI and the University of Tsukuba, the lab shows that Betula schmidtii may be a glacial relict species
Prof. Momohara publishes the co-authored and co-edited textbook Human Evolution: The Quaternary with Kyoritsu Shuppan
Prof. Momohara wins the 7th Japanese Association for Vegetation History Paper Award
ResearchResearch themes
The lab uses plant fossils to investigate how present-day vegetation has been shaped by long-term climate change, including glacial periods, and by human activity. It also aims to apply the natural history of each region revealed this way to green space creation and nature restoration.
*Illustrative imageVegetation history read from plant fossils
Using fossils such as seeds, fruits, and leaves, the lab investigates how forests and wetlands in Japan and East Asia formed amid Quaternary climate change and interactions with people since the Jomon period. Lab members walk through strata and archaeological sites to collect fossils.
*Illustrative imageRegenerating aquatic plants from seeds at the bottom of lakes
The lab also extracts seeds lying dormant in lake-bottom sediment to revive aquatic plants that once disappeared from the site.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorArata Momohara
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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: “Browniea serrata FU029” TyRex Paleobotany / CC0 (cropped)
- Vegetation history read from plant fossils: “Bohlenia americana as Dipteronia americana LT USNM P38094 img2” Gabriel Brown / CC0 (cropped)
- Regenerating aquatic plants from seeds at the bottom of lakes: “A view of a water lily pond on the grounds of The Huntington, San Marino, ca.1920 (CHS-5530)” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
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