RESEARCH

RESEARCH TOPICS 
1. Forest Ecology and Climate Change2. Biodiversity in Farmland and Urban Ecosystems3. 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 (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
 

3.  Ecology and Life History of Wildlife

Approach fieldwork (e.g., point-count census, camera trapping, faecal sampling, field sign survey)

Topics in Progress

  • Ecology and habitat use of skylarks
  • Behavioural ecology of Eurasian kestrels (collaboration)
  • Dietary niche of mammalian mesocarnivores (collaboration)

Past Research

- Leading
  • Food habits of stone martens in Bulgaria​​
  • Food habits of Japanese martens and red foxes in sub-alpine habitat
  • Biogeographical patterns in the diet of mesocarnivores (e.g., martens, foxes, leopard cats)

- Collaboration

   
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