Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University
4-101 Koyama-minami Tottori 680-8553 Japan
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Introduction
Forest Ecology and Ecosystem Management Laboratory is a new lab established in May 1999 at the Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, Japan. There are currently fourteen members; a professor, three graduate students and seven undergraduate students with two foreign students from China.
We mainly study the dynamics of natural forests, especially old-growth deciduous broad-leaved forests, in cool-temperate regions in Japan. We also research the regeneration patterns and maintenance processes of secondary forests, which are strongly affected by human disturbances, using dendroecological methods for the basis of the conservation and management of forest ecosystems.
The Forest Ecology and Ecosystem
Management Laboratory of Tottori University would like to welcome new
undergraduate and/or graduate students who should be energetic and
field hardy in forest research.
Main themes of our laboratory
Stand structure and regeneration
patterns in old-growth forests
Ecological traits of tree species in
deciduous broad-leaved forests
Effects of human disturbances on the
establishment of secondary forests
Changes in forest environment and species
diversity along forest development
Main sites for our studies
Deciduous broad-leaved forests
in the Tottori University Forests
Old- and second- growth forests in the Mt.
Daisen
National Park area
Cool-temperate regions in the northern
Hemisphere
Secondary forests in and adjacent to
Tottori City
Natural forests in Hokkaido, northern Japan
Main species for our studies
Quercus crispula (Quercus mongolica var.
grosseserrata), Fagus crenata, Quercus serrata, Quercus dentata,
Quercus acutissima, Castanea crenata, Aesculus turbinata, Acanthopanax
sciadophylloides, Betula grossa, Alnus hirsuta, Alnus japonica, Alnus
maximowiczii, Fraxinus mandshurica var. japonica, TIlia
japonica, Prunus jamasakura, Prunus grayana,
Magnolia obovata, Magnolia salicifolia, Acer palmatum, Acer mono, Acer
japonicum,
Acer sieboldianum, Acer micranthum, Acer crataegifolium, Acer
rufinerve,
Acer nipponicum, Zelkova serrata, Celtis sinensis, Aphananthe aspera,
Ulmus
davidiana var. japonica, Ulmus laciniata, Cercidiphyllum
japonicum,
Cornus controvasa, Cornus macrophylla, Cornus kousa, Clethra
barbinervis,
Carpinus tschonoskii, Carpinus japonica, Carpinus laxiflora, Juglans
mandshurica,
Pterocarya rhoifolia, Populus maximowiczii, Rhus trichocarpa, Rhus
javanica,
Morus bombysis, Aralia elata, Sorbus commixta, Sorbus alnifolia,
Viburnum
furcatum, Viburnum weightii, Lindera umbellata, Symplocos
coreana, Callicarpa
japonica, Euonymus oxyphyllus, Euonymus sieboldianus, Ilex
pedunculosa,
Daphniphyllum macropodum var. humile, Cephalotaxus harringtonia
var.
nana, Eurya japonica, Percea thunbergii, Castanopsis cuspidata var.
sieboldii, Liriodendron tulipifera........
Members of our Laboratory
Professor
Junji Sano
Graduate students
Takashi Sugahara
Hasiqimuge
Saori Imada
Makoto Hasegawa
Maiko Yano
Undergraduate students
Atsuko Otana
Sayaka Harada
Taiki Masui
Kenzo Ideguchi
Alumni
Graduated on
22 March 2007
Saori Imada
Yuki Kishibe
Makoto Hasegawa
Maiko Yano
Gradeated on
17 March 2006
Takashi Sugahara
Atsuko Nishihata (Master)
Graduated
on 30 September 2006
Yuma Nikaido
Graduated
on 18 March 2005
Aya Imaji
Chieko Etoh
Eriko Taniguch
Takeshi Jumbo (Master)
Graduated
on 25 March 2004
Mayuka Ishibashi
Atsuko Iwamoto
Atsuko Nishihata
Sho Yamazaki
Tetsuya Tanaka (Master)
Nao Yamamoto (Master)
Graduated
on 25 March 2003
Megumi Ikeda
Noriko Oonishi
Masato Sato
Takeshi Jimbo
Chihiro Takeda (Master)
Graduated
on 26 March 2002
Sachiko Igawa
Ippei Suzuki
Keiko Sejima
Taeko Fujiwara
Nao Yamamoto
Mayura Yamamoto
Graduated
on 24 March 2001
Ai Usami
Miyuki Kase
Chihiro Takeda
Tomoka Hagiwara
Yoshie Munehara
Kazumi Fujita (Master)
Graduated
on 24 March 2000
Miho Kozaki
Hirofumi Ooba
Satomi Suzuki
Hiromi Senma
Emi Noguchi
Graduated
on 25 March 1999
Yuko Inomata
Yoko Iwata
Koji Ooishi
Saori Ogawara
Takaya Kubo
Kazumi Fujita
Atsushi Matsuoka
Ichiro Yamaguchi
Asuka Yamashita
Jiro Ootsuka (Master)
Graduated
on 25 March 1998
Sachiko Ito
Nobuyuki Inui
Takuya Imoto
Yuka Ushijima
Ken'ichi Suzuki
Tomomi Tokiwa
Yasuhiko Nishimoto
Yasuhiro Matsubara
Akira Wakabayashi
Graduated
on 25 March 1997
Shingo Iwamoto
Ryota Uesaka
Koshi Ooike
Jiro Ootsuka
Hirotaka Kawata
Kensaku Kikuchi
Kazunori Kuramoto
Koji Shida
Nobuhito Takeda
Mayumi Hayashiyama
Noriyuki Yoshitake
Yasuyuki Azuma (Master)
Yukiko Shimizu (Master)
Takashi Yoshiya (Master)
Graduated
on 25 March 1996
Hiroshi Ootsuka
Takeshi Oomichi
Noriko Nakae
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Miyuki Hatta
Rie Fukuma
Yasuko Fukumoto
Junji Masuki
Group photos of the students in our laboratory
Research
in the Mizokuchi Experimental Forest of Tottori University
Turkish Food Party after the
Seminar on Turkish Forest
After
Congress Tour at the Tokyo University Forest in Hokkaido
Japanese beech (Fagus crenata) forest on a foggy day
Contact address
Junji Sano,
Ph.D.
Forest Ecology
and Ecosystem Management Laboratory
Faculty of
Agriculture, Tottori University
4-101
Koyama-minami Tottori 680-8553 Japan
Phone&Fax:
+81 (0) 857 31 5604
e-mail: jsano@muses.tottori-u.ac.jp
Related homepages in Tottori University
University Forests／Tottori University
Forest Ecology and Ecosystem
Management Lab
Since May 1999
Established, 19 May 1999; Last Updated, 10 May 2007