MASUMI HISANO, Ph.D.

Email: hisano.masumi.2h(at)kyoto-u.ac.jp

Assistant Professor, Biosphere Informatics Lab
Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics,
​Kyoto University

​Address: 401 Research Bldg. 12, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto, JAPAN, 606-8501

I am aiming for comprehensive understanding of biodiversity and terrestrial ecosystems by taking approaches of forest ecology and wildlife biology.

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RESEARCH INTEREST

FOREST ECOLOGY
- Climate change impacts on forest ecosystem functioning and biodiversity
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF) under global change
- Plant functional traits
- Analysing large-scale and long-term ecological monitoring data

Western boreal forest of Canada

WILDLIFE BIOLOGY
- Biodiversity in agricultural mosaic landscape
- Values of small woodlands in urban and agricultural landscape
- Wildlife ecology (e.g., mammals, birds)

Farmland birds in Japan: Skylarks (Alauda arvensis japonica), Bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus), and Grey-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)

Stone martens in Bulgaria (National Museum of Natural History, Sofia / Trakia University, Stara Zagora)