Team members

yasuhiro kubota
professor

A field ecologist monitoring Forest Dynamics Plots across boreal, temperate to tropical forests. Recently, focusing on bridging local-scale studies and macroecological theories in terms of biodiversity patterns. 

Buntarou kusumoto
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Buntarou focused on biodiversity patterns of tropical liana (as PhD thesis). Recent studies are global-scale plant diversity estimate , spatial prioritization analysis for biodiversity conservation etc. He is skillful at R programming and other computer languages.  

Takayuki Shiono
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Takayuki is a climber, vegetation scientist and excellent botanist. Recent studies focus on historical processes shaping plant biodiversity patterns. He is skillful at R programming  and other computer languages.

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Junichi Fujinuma
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Juni experienced harsh field work in Malaysian tropical forest. Recently focusing on spatial conservation prioritization and plant biodiversity conservation in Asia.    

Ryo Suzuki
Data manager

Ryo is a plant ecologist: master
piece study is population dynamics of endemic plants (Lysimachia rubida) in Bonin Islands. He is a manager, led the troops of research assistants. 

ryosuke nakadai
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

My research focuses on the biodiversity patterns and processes in various spatial and temporal scales. Above all, I am interested in the issues related with biotic interactions and the relative importance between top-down and bottom-up processes. To reveal the biodiversity patterns and processes of plants is also one of my major interests because plants would be base for the pattern of all the other organisms in terrestrial ecosystems. Development of methodology for capturing (e.g., molecular technique) and evaluating (e.g., diversity index) biodiversity patterns is one of my future subjects.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ryosuke_Nakadai/publications
https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=uHQ1x04AAAAJ&hl=ja

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LIU Cong
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

I am an ecologist and evolutionary biologist interested in the biodiversity and diversification of ants on different spatial and temporal scales. My aim is to explore and document nature in order to increase our understanding of the underlying eco-evolutionary processes that have shaped our planet’s biodiversity. My research broadly encompasses systematics, taxonomy, community ecology, phylogenomics, and population genomics, as well as faunistic surveys of ants.

Kenichirou Kurihara
master course student

Ken-ichirou is interested in biodiversity conservation. He tries to start master course thesis on functional diversity of woody plant species in Taiwan.

sota mikami
undergraduate student

Sota tries to start under-graduation thesis.  He is skillful at computer languages.

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Naomi Arakaki
ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK
​research assistant

Mayumi Hiraoka 
RESEARCH ASSISTANT

HIROYO MOTONAGA
RESEARCH ASSISTANT

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MIori SHIROMA
RESEARCH ASSISTANT

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CHIYOKO TAMANAHA
ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK
RESEARCH ASSISTANT

SACHIYO KUNITOMI
RESEARCH ASSISTANT

miyagi sairi
REsearch Assistant