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Habitat Environmental Symbiosis Lab
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A lab that tackles termites and wood decay in order to make wood last longer.
AboutAbout the lab
Using wood resources for a long time.
The Habitat Environmental Symbiosis Lab aims to make wood resources last longer. It studies how to improve the durability of wood, wood-based materials, and timber houses; the physiology and ecology of wood-decay fungi and termites and integrated control of the damage they cause; technologies that improve the penetration of preservatives into wood; and technologies for deterioration diagnosis and maintenance.
The lab also takes on environmental remediation and bioenergy development that use the functions of organisms that degrade wood, as well as nanostructure analysis of wood carbon, which is attracting attention for its high functionality, and the development of new functions for it.
Key terms
- Wood-decay fungi
- A group of mushrooms and molds that break down wood and make it rot
- Termites
- Wood-eating insects that can cause major damage to houses
- Wood carbon
- A carbon material made by heating wood
ResearchResearch themes
Aiming to build a future-oriented resource-circulation system in the humanosphere, the lab studies wood durability, control of wood-degrading organisms, and wood carbon.
*Illustrative imageWood-damaging insects and their control
The lab works on developing integrated termite management based on termite physiology and ecology, field surveys of the relationship between wood resources and termites, the ecology and control of dry-wood pests, and clarifying how marine wood borers damage wood.
*Illustrative imageResearch on using wood for longer
The lab studies low-toxicity wood preservatives and high-durability technologies, efficient preservative treatment methods, deterioration diagnosis and maintenance methods, improved weather resistance, reuse and recycling of treated wood waste, and improved flame retardancy.
*Illustrative imageWood carbon
The lab develops advanced, highly functional wood-based carbon materials through thermal conversion and analyzes the nanostructure of wood carbon.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorWakako Ohmura
- LecturerToshimitsu Hata
- Project ProfessorYuji Imamura
- Project ProfessorHaruko Sakai
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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: “Termite damage on a block of wood 01” Pratishkhedekar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Wood-damaging insects and their control: “Litchfield National Park (AU), Magnetic Termite Mounds” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Research on using wood for longer: “Weathered decking” Titus Tscharntke / Public domain (cropped)
- Wood carbon: “Kontiki kiln for biochar production in Namibia” Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) - Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation Project / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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