Laboratory of Biodiversity Science
Natural ecosystems have an inherent mechanism that buffers against disturbance,
enabling themselves to remain in the same domain. However, recent biodiversity
loss and ecosystem deteriorations occasionally exceed the threshold that keeps
the system resilient. Our goal is to entangle the mechanisms maintaining and
collapsing the balance of ecosystems from the interactions between organisms and
environments, including human activities. Ecological science is, off course, the
basis for doing so. We are challenging to uncover how ügabundanceüh, ügspecies
richnessüh, ügfood web structureüh, and physical and chemical factors are changing
in space and time, and trying to predict their futures. These outcomes are not
only to be published in scientific papers, but also to be used for biodiversity
conservation and ecosystem management.
1. Community ecology and restoration of invaded ecosystems.
2. Persistence of metapopulations in Satoyama landscapes.
3. Large-scale biodiversity assessment in Japan and neighboring countries.
4. Predicting the range expansion of wildlife and their management.