Principal Investigator
Toshihide Hirao, Ph.D.
Specialties: Forest Ecology and Biodiversity
Faculty introduction by the University of Tokyo
Current Students
Rika Yasui, Doctor’s Course student
Research interests: Eco-behavioral and physiological responses of meso-carnivores to human recreational activities
Asaka Tamaki, Master’s Course student
Research interests: Predator non-consumptive effects on deer behavioral traits and spatio-temporal activities
Tianyu Tang, Master’s Course student
Research interests: Influence of landscape structure of satoyama-urban green space on seed dispersal networks of birds
Erika Naito, Master’s Course student
Research interests: Ecological mechanisms of forest vegetation homogenization caused by feeding damage of Sika deer
Yifan Gao, Master’s Course student
Research interests: Effects of deer bark-stripping on soil carbon storage through modification of soil microbial functions
Junsei Kumaki, Undergraduate student
Research interests: Cascading effect of deer-induced vegetation decline on soil faunal community structures
Lab Alumni
Masanori Fujii, Institute for Environmental Sciences
Post-doc 2012-2015
Tsunenori Iwaki
M.S. 2016, Elevational gradients of vegetation and its impacts on higher trophic levels in the Okuchichibu Mountains
Mitsuru Kawasaki
M.S. 2018, Roles of season, habitat environment and genetic structure on the diet of Japanese deer
Nobuhiko Shigyo, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Ph.D. 2019, Spatio-temporal variability of soil microbial communities and their identity for litter decomposition in cool-temperate montane forests
Akane Kobara
M.S. 2019, Influence of the link between aboveground and belowground ecosystems under deer browsing on seedling demography
Shota Tanaka
M.S. 2020, Resprouting and its function based on forest disturbance regimes
Kohsuke Tanigawa, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
M.S. 2021, Legacy effects of understory vegetation decline caused by Sika deer on tree seedlings through modification of soil microbial functionings
Takara Tsukamoto
M.S. 2022, Factors affecting the historical population dynamics and genetic structure of taiga tick, the vector of Lyme Borrelia
Takuya Yoshida
M.S. 2022, Source-sink effects of pollination services in forests under deer herbivory
Kosuke Takeuchi
M.S. 2023, Genetic structure and morphological variation of Acer tschonoskii complex in the Japanese Archipelago
Shu Morikawa
M.S. 2023, Effects of human activities in the natural environment on behavioral traits and spatio-temporal performances of mammals
Daisuke Ueno
M.S. 2024, Niche differentiation of Reeves’s muntjac and Sika deer in the Boso Peninsula
Rika Yasui
M.S. 2024, Effects of human activities on diel activity and habitat selection in carnivores