1. Long-term Trends and Responses of Forest Ecosystems to 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 global environmental change on ecosystem functioning? - Plant functional traits Approach: Analysing the long-term forest inventory data (e.g., Canadian Permanent Sample Plots, Japanese Monitoring 1000 Plots) Keywords of interests: bioass, boreal forest, growth, mortality, net biomass change, resistance, global warming, drought, spatiotemporal data, statistical modelling, machine learning Collaboration Forest soil carbon dynamics (Led by University of Alberta and University of Minnesota) RPE in Japan (Led by the University of Tokyo and Yokohama National University) Long-term trends in Asian boreal forests (Led by Inner Mongolia Agricultural University) Functional traits and aridity climates (Led by Princeton University) Publication Leading: Science Advances (2024),Global Change Biology (2021), Global Ecology and Biogeography (2020), Ecology Letters (2019), Biological Reviews (2018) Co-author: Nature (2023), Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2023), Ecology Letters (2022), Forest Ecology and Management (2022) |
2. Biodiversity in Agricultural Mosaic Landscape
- Small woodlands in urban and agricultural landscapes - Contrasting values of hedgerows in farmlands - Landsparing and sharing Approach: fieldwork Keywords of interests: 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
- Ecology and life history of mammals, birds, and insects - Food habits of mammals, feeding ecology, and dietary niche Approach: fieldwork, literature review, meta-analysis Keywords: carnivores, faecal analysis, biogeography Previous research - Food habits of stone martens in Bulgaria - Food habits of the Japanese martens and red foxes in sub-alpine habitat - Biogeographical patterns in diet of mesocarnivores (e.g., martens, foxes, leopardcat) Collaboration: dietary niche of mesocarnivores, kestrels, ground-dwelling beetles, yellow bantings, raccoon dogs, maked-palm civets |