Testing possible functional redundancy of forest taxa to respond to species loss due to climate change

• Project/Area Number: 25712015
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Forest science
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: Mori Akira 横浜国立大学, 環境情報研究科(研究院), 准教授 (90505455)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥8,190,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,890,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
• Keywords: 生態系管理 / 気候変動 / 生物多様性 / 群集生態 / 世界遺産

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Climate change can substantially alter ecological communities. Here, we explored future communities in terms of taxonomic and functional characteristics. We found that future communities may be novel not simply because climates are changing at unprecedented rates but also because of the synergetic influences of other environmental changes. Thus ecological processes may be more seriously affected in the future than is generally anticipated based on existing climate-change scenarios, with possible consequences for ecosystem functioning.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] SLU(Sweden)
• [Journal Article] Disentangling the relative importance of host tree community, abiotic environment, and spatial factors on ectomycorrhizal fungal assemblages along an elevation gradient (2016)
  • Author(s): Matsuoka S., Mori A.S., Kawaguchi E., Hobara S. & Osono T.
  • Journal Title: FEMS Microbiology Ecology Volume: 91 Issue: 5 Pages: fiw044-fiw044
  • DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiw044
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Functional redundancy of multiple forest taxa along an elevational gradient: predicting the consequences of non-random species loss (2015)
  • Author(s): Mori AS, Shiono T, Haraguchi TF, Ota AT, Koide D, Ohgue T, Kitagawa R, Maeshiro R, ToeToeAung, Nakamori T, Hagiwara Y, Matsuoka S, Ikeda A, Hishi T, Hobara S, Mizumachi E, Frisch A, Thor G, Fujii S, Osono T, Gustafsson L
  • Journal Title: Journal of Biogeography Volume: 42 Issue: 8 Pages: 1383-1396
  • DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12514
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Bleaching of leaf litter and associated microfungi in subboreal and subalpine forests (2015)
  • Author(s): Hagiwara Y, Matsuoka S, Hobara S, Mori AS, Hirose D, Osono T
  • Journal Title: Canadian Journal of Microbiology Volume: 61 Issue: 10 Pages: 735-743
  • DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2015-0111
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] 知床羅臼岳における標高傾度に伴う植物群集構造の変化：機能ー系統距離に基づく解析
  • Author(s): 北川涼，小出大，塩野貴之 ，水町衣里，森章
  • Organizer: 日本生態学会
  • Place of Presentation: 広島国際会議場
• [Presentation] Realistic species loss alters functional redundancy of ecological communities under a changing climate
  • Author(s): Akira S Mori, Shiono T, Ota AT, Koide D, Ohgue T, Kitagawa R, Maeshiro R, ToeToeAung, Nakamori T, Haraguchi TF, Hagiwara Y, Matsuoka S, Ikeda A, Hishi T, Fujii S, Hobara S, Mizumachi E, Frisch A, Thor G, Osono T, Gustafsson L
  • Organizer: INTECOL
  • Place of Presentation: イギリス
• [Remarks] Shiretoko Forest Biodiversity Evaluation Project
  • URL: http://akkym.net/shiretoko/News_Shiretoko_150416.pdf