RESEARCH

RESEARCH TOPICS

1. Forest Ecology and Climate Change 2. Biodiversity in Farmland and Urban Ecosystems 3. Wildlife Ecology (Birds, Mammals)

1. Long-term Trends in Forest Ecosystems and Biodiversity under Global Environmental Change

Climate change impacts on forest ecosystem functioning and biodiversity
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF)

→ Can biodiversity mitigate or enhance impacts of climate change on ecosystem functioning?

Approach	Analysing the long-term forest inventory data [e.g., Canadian Permanent Sample Plots (PSP), Japanese Monitoring 1000 Plots, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)]
Keywords	Biomass, Carbon, Boreal forest, Growth, Mortality, Net biomass change, Resistance, Stability, Global warming, Drought, Spatiotemporal data, Statistical modelling, Machine learning

Progress

Leading/Corresponding works

Science Advanes (2024) Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2024) Global Change Biology (2021) Global Ecology and Biogeography (2020) Ecology Letters (2019) Biological Reviews (2018)

Co-author works

PNAS (2025)PNAS (2024) Nature (2023)Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2023) Ecology Letters (2022) Forest Ecology and Management (2022)

2. Biodiversity in Urban and Agricultural Mosaic Landscape

Small woodlands in urban and agricultural landscapes
Values of greenbelts and hedgerows in farmlands
Functioning of artificial wetlands (created agricultural wetlands) for birds

Approach	Fieldwork, GIS
Keywords	Avian diversity and composition, Hedgerows, Rice paddy, Urban ecology, Farmland ecology, Landscape ecology, Rewilding, Land-use change and abandonment

Progress

Journal of Environmental Management (2026)
Watershed Ecology and the Environment (2025)
Ecology and Evolution (2025)Journal of Vertebrate Biology (2025)