Our goals are to assess the various functions of forest soils and to evaluate the importance of these soils as a resource. Our work focuses on soil carbon and nutrient stocks, soil inventory, forest water cycling in the laboratory and field, and scaling up methods from a plot to regional level.

Image1:Larch forest in Siberia	Image2:Field observation of litter decomposition	Image3:NDVI in Indochina

♦ Researchers and research keywords

Head	Yojiro MATSUURA    Permafrost; Carbon budget; Northern biome; Nutrient cycling; Forest ecology
Senior Researcher	Masaharu SAKAI   Soil ecology; Carbon cycling; Stable isotope; Tropical soils
Senior Researcher	Shigehiro ISHIZUKA   Soil biochemistry; Greenhouse gas emission; Stable isotope; Black soils
Senior Researcher	Yoshimi SAKAI   Coarse woody debris; Dead organic matter; Decomposition; Carbon cycling
Senior Researcher	Koji SHICHI Paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Vegetation history; Pollen analysis; Lake Baikal; Stream water chemistry
Researcher	Shoji HASHIMOTO    Soil carbon; Soil respiration; Gas diffusion; Soil physics; Modeling
Senior Researcher	Kazuhito MORISADA (Team leader of Climate Change Office)

Key words of the laboratory: Soil resource; Site evaluation; Soil carbon; Nutrient storage; Soil inventory; Global warming; Modeling

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