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Forest Informatics Lab
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The lab uses a variety of methods to explore the connections among forests, rivers, and soil, and the organisms and people that live in them.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading forest information from many angles.
In the Forest Informatics Lab, each faculty member studies a different theme, such as watershed environments, relationships between plants and soil, and forest resource management.
The lab also uses the research forests and experimental sites of the Field Science Education and Research Center as bases.
For graduate study, the lab is a cooperating division 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
- Watershed
- The area of land where rain that falls gathers and flows into a single river
- Fine roots
- The thin roots of a tree that absorb water and nutrients
- Adaptive evolution
- The process by which organisms change their traits over generations to suit the environment in which they live
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Each faculty member studies topics such as forest watershed geochemistry, plant–soil interactions, adaptive evolution, forest resource management, biodiversity, fungus–plant symbiosis, and soil microbes and material cycles.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring Forest Watershed Environments with Geochemistry
In watersheds that include forests, the lab uses geochemical analysis to clarify changes in river water quality and to capture change across the whole watershed. It also seeks to evaluate how forests are used and managed and how people's environmental awareness is changing.
*Illustrative imageConnections Between Plants and Soil
The lab studies how production and material cycles change with soil conditions and stand age, focusing on nitrogen use by trees and fine root production. It also investigates how events such as forest logging affect material cycles and genetic diversity.
*Illustrative imageAdaptive Evolution of Diverse Species
The lab investigates how the diverse species in forest ecosystems each undergo adaptive evolution, and how that evolution affects the ecosystem as a whole, using both simulation models and verification experiments in the field.
*Illustrative imageForest Resource Management and Timber Distribution
Demand for plywood and glued laminated timber made from domestic wood is growing, and the systems of forestry production and distribution are changing. The lab examines appropriate methods of forest resource management while tracking trends in timber demand.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Forest Informatics Lab are faculty, postdocs, and doctoral and master's students (including international students and students of the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies).As of 2026
- ProfessorRyunosuke Tateno
- Project ProfessorTakahito Yoshioka
- Associate ProfessorKazuya Kobayashi
- LecturerNao Sakanoe
- LecturerShunsuke Matsuoka
- Assistant ProfessorAsami Nakanishi
- Assistant ProfessorYoriko Sugiyama
- Project Assistant ProfessorTomohiro Yokobe
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorAyaka Soda
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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 and River in Kamiishizu, Ogaki City, Japan - panoramio” Omiya / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Measuring Forest Watershed Environments with Geochemistry: “Water Sampling of the Nisqually River ( )” Mount Rainier National Park from Ashford, WA, United States / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Connections Between Plants and Soil: “Picea roots with moss 1” Jan Kameníček / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Adaptive Evolution of Diverse Species: “Mante, Andasibe Madagascar 2” Cactus0625 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Forest Resource Management and Timber Distribution: “Yard with Logs - geograph.org.uk - 4145359” Kim Fyson / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (森林育成学分野): “Haino bridge” user:KMR / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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