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Biosphere Informatics Lab
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The lab handles information on organisms and their environment, from material cycling in forests and water to the sounds of wild animals.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding the relationship between organisms and their environment through information.
The Biosphere Informatics Lab is part of the Social Informatics Course of the Graduate School of Informatics, and consists of two fields: Biological Resource Informatics and Biological Environment Informatics.
The Biological Environment Informatics field conducts research on collecting and making use of environmental information, in order to understand the phenomena that occur mainly in terrestrial ecosystems, their mechanisms, and their relationship with human society.
Research in the Biological Resource Informatics field is introduced on that field's page.
Undergraduate students join the lab in their fourth year and can belong to it from the Department of Forest Science or the Department of Bioresource Science. In graduate school, each field accepts students through the Social Informatics Course of the Graduate School of Informatics.
Key terms
- Material cycles
- The movement of elements such as carbon and nitrogen among soil, water, living organisms, and the atmosphere
- Bioacoustics
- A method of recording sounds made by animals, such as calls, to find out which animals are present
NewsLab news
A doctoral student won the Excellent Research Award at the 20th ICT Innovation
A graduate won the Department of Social Informatics Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
A master's student won the Best Poster Award at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan
Prof. Ohte won the 23rd Ecological Society of Japan Award
A master's student won the Department of Social Informatics Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
ResearchResearch themes
The Biological Environment Informatics field conducts research on collecting and making use of environmental information, aiming to understand the phenomena that occur in terrestrial ecosystems, their mechanisms, and their relationship with human society. Its themes include material cycling, ecosystem services, databases, the relationship between wildlife and society, and remote sensing.
*Illustrative imageMechanisms of material cycling in forests and water
The lab clarifies how physical environments, such as water movement, and the activity of biological communities control each other in the material cycling of terrestrial ecosystems. It also develops methods for building and using ecological databases covering wide areas.
*Illustrative imagePlants and the nitrogen cycle
The lab studies how the plants that make up terrestrial ecosystems take up and assimilate nitrogen, and what roles plants play in the nitrogen cycle of an ecosystem.
*Illustrative imageInvestigating bat sounds with citizens
The lab conducts bioacoustic surveys in which citizens take part in recording bat calls. It also studies sexual selection that operates before and after mating, using mice and bonobos as subjects.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Biosphere Informatics Lab are faculty members from its two fields, administrative staff, postdoctoral researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorNobuhito Ohte
- ProfessorHideyuki Doi
- Associate ProfessorLina Koyama
- Associate ProfessorHideaki Nishizawa
- Assistant ProfessorSatsuki Tsuji
- Assistant ProfessorHeungjin Ryu
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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: “Forest stream - geograph.org.uk - 642718” Nigel Freeman / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Mechanisms of material cycling in forests and water: “Forest floor with loblolly pine needles” Clover Thomas / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Plants and the nitrogen cycle: “Pathways for the nitrogen cycle in mangrove forests” Yo-Jin Shiau and Chih-Yu Chiu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Investigating bat sounds with citizens: “Bat Flying in a Mine Shaft (70eeeeb2-9d49-0bd1-dda2-bf48ee13e9f8)” NPS / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Hydrology Lab): “Installation of the eddy covariance system” UBC Micrometeorology from Vancouver, Canada / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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