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Silviculture Lab
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The lab uses fieldwork in research forests to study forest material cycles and how to build the forests of the future.
AboutAbout the lab
Predicting the future of forests from the field.
The Silviculture Lab uses knowledge gained through fieldwork to work on projections of forest productivity, carbon storage, and related topics.
The lab is based in research forests and experimental sites ranging from the Hokkaido Research Forest to the Tokuyama Experimental Site in Yamaguchi Prefecture, as well as in many other forests in Japan and abroad.
For graduate study, the lab is a cooperating chair of the Division of Forest Science in the Graduate School of Agriculture, and its research is led by faculty of the Field Science Education and Research Center.
Key terms
- Material cycles
- The movement of substances such as carbon and nitrogen among plants, soil, water, and the atmosphere
- Planted forest
- A forest, such as one of Japanese cedar or Japanese cypress, grown from seedlings planted by people
- Forest road network
- A network of roads built in mountain areas for forest management and for hauling out timber
NewsLab news
A doctoral student won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the academic research meeting of the Japan Society of Forest Engineering
Paper published on the environmental factors that determine nitrate concentrations in mountain streams
ResearchResearch themes
Based in research forests and experimental sites, the lab conducts basic and applied ecological research on forest productivity, ecosystem functions, and projections of future carbon storage.
*Illustrative imageForest Material Cycles and Future Projections
The lab seeks to clarify how forest material cycles are changing under climate warming and other pressures, and to apply the findings to forest management that is resilient to disasters. It also works on simulations of forest succession and of water and carbon cycles, analysis of long-term field data from multiple sites, and research on stream organisms.
*Illustrative imageSustainable Forest Development and Management
The lab studies the maintenance and management of forests, including planted forests, the effective use of forest resources, and forest development with a view to the coming decades. It explores ways to carry out silviculture and infrastructure such as forest road networks in satoyama and planted forests in a way that is sustainable economically, environmentally, and socially.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Silviculture Lab are faculty, part-time researchers, project researchers, doctoral and master's students, and research students.
- ProfessorNaoko Tokuchi
- Associate ProfessorHisashi Hasegawa
- Associate ProfessorTakeshi Ise
- Associate ProfessorMasae Ishihara
- Project LecturerTakuya Tanaka
- Assistant ProfessorHanami Suzuki
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorManqing Zhang
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorPETIT Cathleen
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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: “Haino bridge” user:KMR / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Forest Material Cycles and Future Projections: “Hosoozawa mountain stream and Shioji primeval forest in Ueno village, Gunma prefecture. A” さか
おり / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Sustainable Forest Development and Management: “Japanese cedars (Cryptomeria japonica), Caldeira, Graciosa Island, Azores, Portugal (PPL3-Altered) julesvernex2” Jules Verne Times Two / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (森林情報学分野): “Forest and River in Kamiishizu, Ogaki City, Japan - panoramio” Omiya / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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