Associate Professor
Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences,
Yokohama National University,
79-7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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Background
I had been trained as a landscape ecologist. I finished my PhD thesis on susitainable management of Mongolian grassland ecosystems in 2009.
The ultimate goal of my research is to apply scientific knowledge toward ecosystem-based management and conservation under environmental changes. Recently, I am particularly interested in the consequences of realistic loss of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning and services.
Field observations and experiments (mainly in arid and semi-arid ecosystems, and alpine and subalpine ecosystems), simulation techniques, and analyses of large empirical datasets are in my toolbox.
Research Interests
Research specialty Ecosystem management, Landscape ecology, Macroecology
Research keywords Alpine ecosystems, Alternative stable states, Arid ecosystems, Carbon dynamics, Ecological resilience, Ecological threshold, Ecosystem functioning, Functional diversity, Functional traits, Phylogenetic diversity, Social network, Social resilience, Species diversity