Study on ecosystem dynamics of boreal forest by the Field experiments

2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 16208014
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 林学・森林工学
• Research Institution: HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
• Principal Investigator: SASA Kaichiro Hokkaido Univ., Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Prof., 北方生物圏フィールド科学センター, 教授 (70125318)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAKASHIZUKA Toru Tohoku Univ., Graduate School of Life Sci., Prof., 生命科学研究科, 教授 (00281105) ; KOIKE Takayoshi Hokkaido Univ., Research Faut hrof Agr., Prof., 大学院農学研究院, 教授 (10270919) ; HIURA Tsutomu Hokkaido Univ., Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Prof., 北方生物圏フィールド科学センター, 教授 (70250496) ; SHIBATA Hideaki Hokkaido Univ., Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Asso. Prof., 北方生物圏フィールド科学センター, 助教授 (70281798) ; AGETSUMA Naoki Hokkaido Univ., Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Asso. Prof., 北方生物圏フィールド科学センター, 助教授 (60285690)
• Project Period (FY): 2004 – 2006
• Keywords: Boreal forest / Ecosystem / Watershed / Field experiment / Baiodiversity / Water balance / Material movement

Research Abstract

The purposes of this project were to clarify the mechanism of relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functions at the boreal forests by the field experiments as forest cutting or fertilization, and to prepare some long term monitoring sites.
In Uryu experimental forest, under the heavy snowfall climate, nine experimental basins were established and clear cutting and removal of undertory were carried out. (1)Increasing of current discharge and decline of water temperature were observed after clear cutting. (2)Concentration of NO3-N was not increased by clear cutting, but increased by removal of understory. (3)Disturbance by logging and removal of understory exerts significant impacts on stream invertebrate community by enriching food resource.
In Tomakomai experimental forest, under the small snowfall climate, ninety six sites were established and select cutting and fertilization were carried out. (1)Growth and reproduction of plants which had an earlier phenology were limited by nutrients, and those of plants which had a later phenology were limited by light condition. (2)Nitrogen fertilization accelerated rate of leaf herbivory of trees, and contrary, logging decreased the rate. Furthermore, the both nitrogen fertilization and logging reduced the decomposition rate of litters. (3)Productivity of forest floor plants was strongly influenced by the gradient of light and nutrients, while species richness of the plants was strongly affected by the disturbance history.
Sasa(dwarf bamboo)community has buffer capacity on water balance and material movement. Region of heavy snowfall has high density of Sasa vegetation. And region of small snowfall has no distribution or low density of Sasa vegetation. It is necessary to consider about the distribution and morphology of Sasa community at the land use and environmental conservation.
These experimental basins and sites were prepared as long term monitoring site and registered as member of Long Term Ecological Research Site in Japan (JaLTER).

Research Products

• [Journal Article] A Trial for Reforestation After Forest Fires with Sakhalin Spruce in the Northern Most Japan (2007)
  • Author(s): KAYAMA Masazumi, CHOI Dongsu, SASA Kaichiro, SATOH Fuyuki, NOMURA Mutsumi, KOIKE Takayoshi
  • Journal Title: Eurasian Journal of Forest Research 10 Pages: 31-39
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Vertical distribution and seasonal pattern of fine-root dynamics in a cool-temperate forest in northern Japan : implication of the understory vegetation, Sasa dwarf bamboo (2007)
  • Author(s): Fukuzawa, K., Shibata, H., Takagi, K., Satoh, F., Koike, T., Sasa, K.
  • Journal Title: Ecological Research (In press)
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Effects of nitrogen supply on photosynthetic and anatomical changes in current-year needles of Pinus koraiensis seedlings grown under two irradiances (2007)
  • Author(s): Makoto, K., Koike, T.
  • Journal Title: Photosynthetica 44 Pages: 99-104
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Allocation of photoassimilated ^<13>C from reproductive and non-reproductive shoot to the fruit of an angiosperm tree, Styrax obassia (2007)
  • Author(s): Miyazaki Y., Hiura T., Funada R.
  • Journal Title: Plant Species Biology 22 Pages: 53-57
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Seasonal changes in the relationship between photosynthesis and temperature in canopy leaves of Quercus crispula in a cool-temperate forest (2007)
  • Author(s): Hikoska K., Nabeshima E., Hiura T.
  • Journal Title: Tree Physiology 27 Pages: 1035-1041
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Size dependency of water and nitrogen use in photosynthesis and hydraulic conductance in three Acer species with different maximum sizes (2007)
  • Author(s): Nabeshima E., Hiura T.
  • Journal Title: Ecological Research (in press)
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] A Trial for Reforestation After Forest Fires with Sakhalin Spruce in the Northern Most Japan (2007)
  • Author(s): KAYAMA Masazumi, CHOI Dongsu, SASA Kaichiro, SATOH Fuyuki, NOMURA Mutsumi, KOIKE Takayoshi
  • Journal Title: Eurasian Journal of Forest Research 10-1 Pages: 31-39
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Size dependency of water and nitrogen use in photosynthesis and hydraulic conductance in three Acer species with different maximum sizes (2007)
  • Author(s): Nabeshima E., Hiura T.
  • Journal Title: Ecological Research (In press)
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Leaf anatomy and light acclimation in woody seedlings after gap formation in a cool-temperate deciduous forest (2006)
  • Author(s): Oguchi, R., K.Hikosaka, T.Hiura, T.Hirose
  • Journal Title: Oecologia 149 Pages: 571-582
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Effects of clear-cutting on nitrogen leaching and fine root dynamics in a cool-temperate forested watershed in northern Japan (2006)
  • Author(s): Fukuzawa, K., Shibata, H., Takagi, K., Nomura, M., Kurima, N., Fukazawa, T., Satoh, F., Sasa.K.
  • Journal Title: Forest Ecology and Management 225 Pages: 257-261
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Relationship of topography to surface water chemistry with particular focus on nitrogen and organic carbon solutes within a forested watershed in Hokkaido, Japan (2006)
  • Author(s): Ogawa, A., Shibata, H., Suzuki, K., Mitchell, M.J., Ikegami, Y.
  • Journal Title: Hydrological Processes 20 Pages: 251-265
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] δ^<18>O of tree-ring cellulose in two species (spruce and oak) as proxies of precipitation amount and relative humidity in northern Japan (2006)
  • Author(s): Tsuji, H., Nakatsuka, T., Takagi, K.
  • Journal Title: Chemical Geology 231 Pages: 67-76
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Reproductive sucess and distance to conspecific adults in the sparsely distributed tree Kalopanax pictus (2006)
  • Author(s): Fujimori, N., Samejima, H., Kenta, T., Ichie, T., Shibata, M., Iida, S., Nakashizuka, T.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Plant Research 119 Pages: 195-203
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] The effects of various forest uses on small mammal communities in Sarawak Malaysia (2006)
  • Author(s): Nakagawa, M., Miguchi, H., Nakashizuka, T.
  • Journal Title: Forest Ecology and Management 231 Pages: 55-62
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Irregular drought trigger mass flowering in aseasonal tropical forests in Asia (2006)
  • Author(s): Sakai, S., Harrison, R., Momose, K., Kuraji, K., Nagamitsu, H., Yasunari, T., Chong.L., Nakashizuka.T.
  • Journal Title: American Journal of Botany 93 Pages: 1134-1139
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services (2006)
  • Author(s): Balvanera, P., Pfisterer, A.B., Buchmann, N., He, J.S., Nakashizuka, T., Raffaelli, D., Schmid, B.
  • Journal Title: Ecology Letters 9 Pages: 1146-1156
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Comparison of conventionally observed interception evaporation in a 100-m^2 subplot with that estimated in a 4-ha area of the same Borneal lowland tropical forest (2006)
  • Author(s): Manfroi, O., Kuraji, K., Suzuki, M., Tanaka, N., Kume, T., Nakagawa, M., Kumagai, T., Nakashizuka, T.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Hydrology 329 Pages: 329-349
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Twenty years of community dynamics in a mixed conifer-broad-leaved forest under a selection system in northern Japan (2006)
  • Author(s): Toshiya Yoshida, Mahoko Noguchi, Yukio Akibayashi, Masato Noda, Masahiko Kadomatsu, Kaichiro Sasa
  • Journal Title: Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36 Pages: 1363-1375
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Leaf anatomy and light acclimation in woody seedlings after gap formation in a cool-temperate deciduous forest (2006)
  • Author(s): Oguchi, R., K.Hikosaka, T.Hiura, T.Hirose
  • Journal Title: Oecologia 149-4 Pages: 571-582
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Effects of clear-cutting on nitrogen leaching and fine root dynamics in a cool-temperate Wrested watershed in northern Japan (2006)
  • Author(s): Fukuzawa, K., Shibata, H., Takagi, K., Nomura, M., Kurima, N., Fukazawa, T., Satoh, F, Sasa, K.
  • Journal Title: Forest Ecology and Management 225 Pages: 257-261
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Reproductive sucess and distance to conspecific adults in the sparsely distributed tree Kalopanax pictus (2006)
  • Author(s): Fujimori, N., Samejima, H., Kenta, T., Ichie, T., Shibata.M., Iida, S., Nakashizuka, T.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Plant Research 119 Pages: 195-203
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Irregular drought trigger mass flowering in a seasonal tropical forests in Asia (2006)
  • Author(s): Sakai, S., Harrison, R., Momose, K., Kuraji, K., Nagamitsu, H., Yasunari, T., Chong, L., Nakashizuka, T.
  • Journal Title: American Journal of Botany 93 Pages: 1134-1139
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Comparison of conventionally observed interception evaporation in a 100-m^2 subplot with that estimated in a 4-ha area of the same Bomeal lowland tropical forest (2006)
  • Author(s): Manfroi, O., Kuraji, K., Suzuki, M., Tanaka, N., Kume, T., Nakagawa, M., Kumagai, T., Nakashizuka, T.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Hydrology 329 Pages: 329-349
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Dynamic carbon dioxide exchange through snowpack by wind-driven mass transfer in a conifer-broadleaf mixed forest in northernmost Japan (2005)
  • Author(s): Takagi, K., Nomura, M., Ashiya, D., Takahashi, H., Sasa, K., Fujinuma, Y., Shibata, H., Akibayashi, Y., Koike, T.
  • Journal Title: Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19 Pages: GB2012, doi:10.1029/2004GB002272
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Deforestation effects on the micrometeorology in a cool-temperate forest in northern Japan (2005)
  • Author(s): Takagi, K. et al.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Agricultural Meteorology 60 Pages: 1025-1028
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Short-term change in factors affecting regeneration of beech (Fagus crenata) after simultaneous death of dearf bamboo (2005)
  • Author(s): Abe M., Miguchi H., Honda A., Makita A., Nakashizuka T.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Vegetation Science 16 Pages: 49-56
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Soil Moisture Condition and Growth of Deciduous Tree Seedlings Native to Northern Japan Grown under Elevated CO_2 with a FACE System (2005)
  • Author(s): N.Eguchi, R.Funada, T.Ueda, K.Takagi, T.Hiura, K.Sasa, T, Koike
  • Journal Title: Phyton (Austria), Special issue : APGC 2004 45 Pages: 133-138
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Carbon cycling and budget in a forested basin of southwestern Hokkaido, northern Japan (2005)
  • Author(s): Shibata, H., Hiura, T., Tanaka, Y, Takagi, K., Koike, T.
  • Journal Title: Ecological Research 20(3) Pages: 325-331
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Retention processes of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition in a forest watershed in northern Japan (2005)
  • Author(s): Shibata, H., Kuboi, T., Konohira, E., Satoh, F., Sasa, K.
  • Journal Title: In 'Proceedings of the 3rd international nitrogen conference (Zhu, Z., Minami, K. and Xing, G. Eds.)',(Science Press USA Inc.) Pages: 626-630
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Spatio-temporal variation in Lepidoptera larval assemblages associated with oak, Quercus crispula : the importance of leaf quality (2005)
  • Author(s): Murakami, M., Yoshida, K., Hara, H., Toda, M.J.
  • Journal Title: Ecological Entomology 30 Pages: 521-531
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Comparison of sapling demography of four dipterocarp species with different seed-dispersal strategies (2005)
  • Author(s): Takeuchi, Y., Kenta, T., Nakashizuka, T.
  • Journal Title: Forest Ecology and Management 208 Pages: 237-248
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Effects of frequent disturbance on diversity of stream invertebrates mediated by high mobility (2005)
  • Author(s): Miyake, Y., Hiura, T., Nakano, S.
  • Journal Title: Archivfur Hydrobiologie 162 Pages: 465-480
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Aboveground biomass and net biomass increment in a cool temperate forest on a landscape scale (2005)
  • Author(s): Hiura, T.
  • Journal Title: Ecological Research 20 Pages: 271-277
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Oribatid mite community structure and tree species diversity : A link? (2005)
  • Author(s): Kaneko, N., Sugawara, Y., Miyamoto, T., Hasegawa, M., Hiura, T.
  • Journal Title: Pedobiologia 49 Pages: 521-528
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Dynamic carbon dioxide exchange through snowpack by wind-driven mass transfer in a conifer-broadleaf mixed forest in northernmost Japan (2005)
  • Author(s): Takagi, K., Nomura, M., Ashiya, D., Takahashi, H., Sasa, K., Fujinuma, Y., Shibata, H., Akibayashi, Y., Koike, T.
  • Journal Title: Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19, GB2012,doi: 10.1029/2004GB002272
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Short-term change in factors affecting regeneration of beech (Fagus crenata) after simultaneous death of dwarf bamboo (2005)
  • Author(s): Abe M., Miguchi H., Honda A., Makita A., Nakashizuka T.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Vegetation Science Pages: 49-56
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Carbon cycling and budget in a forested basin of southwestern Hokkaido, northern Japan (2005)
  • Author(s): Shibata, H., Hiura, T., Tanaka, Y., Takagi, K., Koike, T.
  • Journal Title: Ecological Research 20(3) Pages: 325-331
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Retention processes of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition in a forest watershed in northern Japn (2005)
  • Author(s): Shibata, H., Kuboi, T., Konohira, E., Satoh, F., Sasa, K.
  • Journal Title: In 'Proceedings of the 3rd international nitrogen conference (Zhu, Z., Minami, K. and Xing, G Eds.)', Science Press USA Inc.. Pages: 626-630
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Size dependency of photosynthetic water and nitrogen use efficiency and hydraulic limitation in Acer mono (2004)
  • Author(s): Nabeshima, E., Hiura T.
  • Journal Title: Tree Physiology 24 Pages: 745-752
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Exploring the relationship between canopy structure, stand productivity and biodiversity of natural forest ecosystems (2004)
  • Author(s): Ishii, H. et al.
  • Journal Title: Forest Science 50 Pages: 342-355
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 森林フィールドサイエンス (2006)
  • Author(s): 全国大学演習林協議会(編)
  • Total Pages: 169
  • Publisher: 朝倉書店
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 森林の科学-森林生態系科学入門- (2005)
  • Author(s): 中村太士, 小池孝良編著
  • Total Pages: 218
  • Publisher: 朝倉書店
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 生物多様性はなぜ大切か? (2005)
  • Author(s): 日高敏隆編
  • Total Pages: 183
  • Publisher: 昭和堂
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 森林の生態学-長期大規模研究からみえるもの- (2005)
  • Author(s): 正木隆, 田中浩, 柴田銃江編
  • Total Pages: 383
  • Publisher: 文一総合出版
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 森のスケッチ (2004)
  • Author(s): 中静 透
  • Total Pages: 236
  • Publisher: 東海大学出版会
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 樹木生理生態学 (2004)
  • Author(s): 小池孝良編
  • Total Pages: 264
  • Publisher: 朝倉書店
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 森林保護学 (2004)
  • Author(s): 鈴木和夫編著
  • Total Pages: 250
  • Publisher: 朝倉書店
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 植物生態学 (2004)
  • Author(s): 甲山隆司等著
  • Total Pages: 431
  • Publisher: 朝倉書店
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より