Functional redundancy in the era of environmental changes (Fostering Joint International Research)

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15KK0022
• Research Category: Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Forest science
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: MORI Akira 横浜国立大学, 大学院環境情報研究院, 准教授 (90505455)
• Research Collaborator: Rupert Seidl The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Siliviculture, Associate professor
• Project Period (FY): 2016 – 2018
• Keywords: 生物多様性 / 生態系機能 / 生態系サービス / 気候変動 / 土地改変

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It is becoming important for ecosystem management to be based on scientific evidence and theory. Here we have shown that climate change and land-use change have interactive effects, thus complicating issues of environmental changes and biodiversity crisis. To face such uncertainties, it is important to have spatially-explicit scenarios, which could be useful for active management intervention aimed at restoring and conserving ecological communities and ecosystem functions/services they provide.

Free Research Field

生態系管理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

人間社会が必要とする生態系サービスの多くが生物多様性により支えられている。本研究課題では、人為的な温暖化や土地改変といった脅威にある生態系において、積極的な人為介入を含めた科学的知に基づく生態系管理により、生態系の有する多様性と機能性を保全することの重要性を示した。