Staff (FFPRI side)

Hiroshi TANAKA


Position: Director, Department of Forest Vegetation, FFPRI


Mail Address: hirop atmark ffpri.affrc.go.jp


Research Subjects: Forest Dynamics; Tree Life history; Forest plant diversity


Selected Publications:

  1. Taki , H., Inoue, T., Tanaka, H., Makihara , H., Sueyoshi, M., Isono, M., Okabe, K. (2010) Responses of community structure, diversity, and abundance of understory plants and insect assemblages to thinning in plantations. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 607-613. DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.11.019

  2. Kikuchi, S., Shibata, M., Tanaka, H., Yoshimaru, H., Niiyama, K. (2009) Analysis of the disassortative mating pattern in a heterodichogamous plant, Acer mono Maxim. using microsatellite markers. Plant Ecology 204: 43-54. DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9564-1

  3. Shibata, M., Kikuchi, S., Tanaka, H., Sueyoshi, M., Yoshimaru, H. and Niiyama, K. (2009) Effects of population density, sex morph, and tree size on reproduction in a heterodichogamous maple, Acer mono, in a temperate forest of Japan. Ecological Research 24: 1-9. DOI: 10.1007/s11284-008-0474-4

  4. Abe, S., Motai, H., Tanaka, H., Shibata, M., Kominami, Y. and Nakashizuka, T. (2008) Population Maintenance of the short-lived shrub Sambucus in a deciduous forest. Ecology 89: 1155–1167. DOI:10.1890/06-2009.1

  5. Tanaka, H., Shibata, M., Masaki, T., Iida, S., Niiyama, K., Kominami, Y. and Nakashizuka, T. (2008) Comparative demography of three coexisting Acer species in gaps and under closed canopy. Journal of Vegetation Science 19(1): 127-138. DOI: 10.3170/2007-8-18342


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