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Masahiro Nakamura, Professor
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The Nakamura Lab studies forest community ecology, centered on interactions between plants and insects. In forests in Tomakomai, Nakagawa, and Nayoro in Hokkaido and Kumano in Wakayama, the lab investigates responses to climate change such as global warming and typhoons, as well as the pest-suppressing function of biodiversity. The basic approach is to find patterns in biological communities through multi-site observation and long-term monitoring, then confirm the mechanisms behind them with manipulative field experiments. The lab is also in charge of a program in the Forest Research Field Training, which Hokkaido University Forests offers to undergraduates so that they can experience research before entering graduate school.
Osamu Kishida, Professor
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The Kishida Lab is an animal ecology lab that studies predator–prey relationships and life history strategies of animals, mainly in the research forests of Hokkaido University. Ponds dug in the research forest make large-scale manipulative field experiments possible, and students develop their own research themes. The lab is based mainly at the Wakayama Research Forest in Kozagawa Town, Wakayama Prefecture. Graduate students basically live in Kozagawa Town, but depending on their research theme, they can also be based at a research forest in Hokkaido, such as the Tomakomai Research Forest.
Jun Uetake, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Jun Uetake studies how microbial communities are involved in material cycles and global environmental change. Invisible to the eye, microbes live not only in soil and rivers but also in seemingly lifeless environments such as the air and snow cover. The research combines field work with genetic experiments and chemical analysis in the laboratory. Associate Professor Uetake is affiliated with the Hiyama Research Forest and Tomakomai Research Forest of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Minoru Kasada, Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor Minoru Kasada studies how changes in the relationships among organisms affect their abundance and diversity. Interactions among organisms (biotic interactions) are constantly changing with time and circumstances. Humans are regarded as one species among living things, and the research also considers how people and other organisms can coexist and prosper together under limited resources. Assistant Professor Kasada is affiliated with the Uryu Research Forest of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Toshiya Yoshida, Professor
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Professor Toshiya Yoshida studies forest management practices designed with ecosystem conservation in mind. Making use of timber resources is important for a sustainable society, but forest management practices such as logging are sometimes regarded as degrading forest ecosystems. The lab analyzes the structure, succession, and diversity of forests where management has been carried out, aiming to identify management methods that are compatible with ecosystem conservation. The research forest has forests with a variety of histories, along with technical staff who put forest management into practice.
Karibu Fukuzawa, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Karibu Fukuzawa studies the dynamics of forest roots and the environmental functions of forests. Through fieldwork and chemical analysis, the lab traces the flow of materials and evaluates the environmental functions of forests. Focusing especially on the role of roots at the boundary between plants and soil, the lab has found, for example, that the amount of root production rivals the amount of leaf litter. In the vast Teshio Experimental Forest, which consists mainly of natural forest, the lab also studies how environmental change and anthropogenic disturbance affect the environmental functions of forests.
Makoto Kobayashi, Associate Professor
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Makoto's Plant & Soil Lab, led by Associate Professor Makoto Kobayashi, studies how climate change affects plants in cold regions. Focusing on aboveground and belowground plant traits and on material cycling in the soil, the lab clarifies the mechanisms behind these effects. In addition to field surveys and laboratory analysis, the lab carries out large-scale field manipulation experiments that are possible only in the Hokkaido University Forests. The lab is located in Nayoro City, and students live in Nayoro while conducting research at study sites in the Teshio, Nakagawa, and Uryu Experimental Forests.
Satoshi Suzuki, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Satoshi Suzuki studies how forests change over long periods, from several decades to a century. The research examines how climate change, environmental change, natural disturbance, and human disturbance and management of forests are involved in changes too long for one person to observe. The lab combines field surveys, the use of past data, and a variety of analyses and statistical analysis. The lab belongs to the Nakagawa Experimental Forest of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Takafumi Gotoh, Professor
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The Gotoh Lab studies livestock nutritional physiology applying epigenetics, centered on 'metabolic programming' in Japanese Black (Wagyu) cattle. It examines how nutrition during the fetal period and right after birth affects how cattle develop, aiming to produce high-quality beef even with grazing or grass-based feeding. In the COI-NEXT project (the Next-Generation Wagyu Production System Hub) based in Shiraoi Town, the lab works on smart grazing management using advanced ICT and space technology. The lab accepts graduate students (master's and doctoral) and postdocs. Because the Graduate School of Environmental Science, to which it belongs, is a graduate-only school, undergraduates cannot join.
Yoichiro Hoshino, Professor
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The Hoshino Lab studies the exploration and evaluation of genetic resources of wild plants native to Hokkaido, and the breeding of new cultivars from them. Targeting haskap, wild kiwifruit (hardy kiwi), Rubus species, raspberries, and apples, the lab carries out interspecific hybridization and polyploid breeding. To solve problems related to plant reproduction and apply the results to breeding, the lab analyzes how pollen germinates and grows on an artificial culture medium. Research themes and target plants are chosen through discussion, following each student's interests. To join the lab, students must enter the Cropland Science Course of the Division of Biosphere Science, Graduate School of Environmental Science.
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