1. 2018/11/23 ( Fri ) 10:45~12:15
Soundscape Ecology
Organizers:
Tomonari Akamatsu 赤松友成
(National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency)
Tzu-Hao Lin 林子皓
(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
Mao-Ning Tuanmu 端木茂甯
(Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
Tomonari Akamatsu 赤松友成
(Senior Researcher, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency)
Title: Sounds of marine organisms: how vocalization can be used for animal observation
Dr. Akamatsu is an underwater boiacoustician. He conducted acoustic remote sensing to visualize aquatic organisms using passive and active means. Presence, movements and density could be observed without visual information. In recent years, he is studying effect of noise on aquatic animals.
Nicholas R. Friedman
(Researcher, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
Title: Island song: monitoring soundscapes along an urban-rural gradient in Okinawa
Dr. Friedman is evolutionary ecologist and ornithologist. His research focuses on the evolution of animal signals. In particular, he is interested in understanding the effect of signal evolution on diversification, as well as the effect of anthropogenic noise on animal distributions, behavior, and the evolution of acoustic communications.
Daisuké Shimotoku 下徳大祐
(Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tokyo)
Title: Cyberforest: eco-acoustic monitoring from the deep forest
Mr. Shimotoku is a field information. He has studied the technology of data retrieval from deep forest and soundscape analysis using machine learning under supervision of Prof. Kaoru Saito and Prof. Hill Hiroki Kobayashi.
Mao-Ning Tuanmu 端木茂甯
(Assistant Research Fellow, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica)
Title: Extracting bat information from long-term ultrasonic recordings using deep learning tools
Dr. Mao-Ning Tuanmu is interested in the spatiotemporal dynamics of biodiversity, the underlying driving processes and their implications for biodiversity conservation. His research topics cover different aspects of biodiversity, from species diversity to functional trait composition and from species distribution to community structure. His lab approaches these topics by integrating ecological open data and advanced technologies, including remote sensing, species distribution modeling, passive acoustic monitoring and machine learning.
2. 2018/11/23 (Fri) 13:45~15:15
Freshwater Ecology
Organizers:
Hsuen-Wen Chen 陳宣汶
(National Chiayi University)
Hiromi Uno 宇野裕美
(Kyoto University)
Speakers:
Yuh-Wen Chiu 邱郁文
(Assistant Researcher, National Cheng Kung University)
Title: The conservation of springs in Taiwan
Dr. Chiu has studied ecology, conservation and restoration of springs in Taiwan, as well as various types of wetlands. He is also a malacologist, focusing on the phylogeographic research of freshwater and marine molluscs in East Asia.
Takuya Sato 佐藤拓哉
(Associate Professor, Kobe University)
Title: Ecosystem linkages and ecological communities
Dr. Sato is a freshwater ecologist. He has worked on understanding how organisms, detritus or nutrients moving across habitats can affect intra/inter specific interactions, community structure and ecosystem functions in a local habitat. He is seeking to develop a general framework to conserve/ manage any habitats as an integrated ecosystem.
Jeng-Wei Tsai 蔡正偉
(Associate Professor, China Medical University)
Title: Dissolved organic material (DOM) variations and their effect on CO2 flux and heavy metal bioaccumulation under changing climate in subtropical lakes
Dr. Tsai is an aquatic ecotoxicologist and limnologist. He has been involved in teaching and researching freshwater ecology and ecotoxicology by using field/laboratory investigations and mechanistic modeling techniques. His researches center around (1) influence of natural/anthropogenic disturbances on the function of freshwater ecosystems (carbon and nutrient cycling); (2) transportation, bioavailability and trophic transfer of xenobiotics under changing environment, and (3) exposure risk assessment on the health of aquatic species and ecosystems from subcellular to ecosystem level.
Hiromi Uno 宇野裕美
(Associate Professor, Kyoto University)
Title: Biological backflow of energy by mobile organisms
Dr. Uno is a stream ecologist with broad interests in interdisciplinary projects. She is particularly interested in the movements of organisms in landscape, and their ecosystem functions. She dreams to contribute for the habitat conservation by revealing the ecological roles of habitat connectivities and isolations, and identifying the key environmental structures for the ecosystem.
Rita Yam 任秀慧
(Associate Professor, National Taiwan University)
Title: Factors influencing aquatic plant litter decomposition rates of in subtropical constructed wetlands: site quality or plant quality is more important?
Dr. Yam is an aquatic ecologist with research focuses on biodiversity of freshwater organisms and wetland ecosystem processes. Her studies on wetland ecosystems have been directed to the ecosystem structure and functioning of urbanised and natural wetlands in response to various environmental disturbances. She develops ecological management strategies of constructed wetlands based on ecosystem-service approaches. Her work extends to the investigation of biodiversity and functional morphology of macroinvertebrates and fish in streams and wetlands.
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Hiroki Yamanaka 山中裕樹
(Associate Professor, Ryukoku University)
Title: Environmental DNA analysis for ecology and conservation
Dr. Yamanaka is a freshwater ecologist. He has worked on the development of new technologies for environmental DNA analysis. He has interests in the applied usage of eDNA techs for biodiversity monitoring and conservation activities.
3. 2018/11/24 (Sat) 10:15~11:45
Forest Ecology
Organizers:
Yu-Yun Chen 陳毓昀
(National Dong Hwa University)
Akiko Satake 佐竹暁子
(Kyusyu University)
Yuuya Tachiki 立木佑弥
(Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Speakers:
Chia-Hao Chang-Yang 張楊家豪
(Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University)
Title: Closing the life cycle of forest trees: Seedling-to-sapling transition in a subtropical rainforest
Dr. Chang-Yang is a forest ecologist. He studies plant-climate interaction and community assembly mechanisms in forest ecosystems. He uses long-term seed rain and seedling data from a subtropical rain forest in Taiwan and advanced statistical modeling to quantify the effects of climate factors on forest dynamics at multiple scales.
I-Ching Chen 陳一菁
(Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University)
Title: Weakening of Asian monsoon, not cloud cover change, determines the climatic variability in montane cloud forest
I-Ching Chen is interested in how species adapt to rapid climate change. Particularly, she focuses on the evolutionary and ecological determinants of species geographic distribution. She also investigates impacts of climate change on tropical mountain cloud forest, where enormous species are at high risk of extinction.
Akiko Satake 佐竹暁子
(Associate Professor, Kyushu University)
Title: Field transcriptome revealed a novel relationship between nitrate transport and flowering in Japanese beech
Akiko Satake is a professor at Kyushu University, Japan. She got Ph.D in 2002 in the field of mathematical biology from Kyushu University. After postdoc experiences at Princeton University and Pennsylvania State University, she became a group leader at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. She returned to Japan in 2008 to join the graduate school of environmental science at Hokkaido University, and moved to Kyushu University in 2015. She studies about reproductive synchrony in plant populations using interdisciplinary approaches that combine gene expression analyses, mathematical modeling, and fieldwork.
Yuuya Tachiki 立木佑弥
(Assistant Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Title: The evolution of rhizome system in bamboos under spatial heterogeneities
Dr. Tachiki is a theoretical ecologist. He has studied the evolution of life history strategies by using evolutionary game theory. He is especially interested in the intermittent and synchronized reproduction in plants such as masting in trees and flowering time of monocarpic perennial plants.
4. 2018/11/24 (Sat) 13:00~14:30
Animal-Plant Interaction
Organizers:
Chuan-Kai Ho 何傳愷
(National Taiwan University)
Masahiro Nakamura 中村誠宏
(Hokkaido University)
Speakers:
Chia-Ching Chu 朱家慶
(Assistant Professor, National Chung Hsing University)
Title: Psyllid-microbe associations and their implications for management of plant diseases
Dr. Chu is a plant pathologist. His research focuses on understanding microbes associated with plants and insects. He is particularly interested in studying host-microbe associations in insect vectors of plant diseases.
Chuan-Kai Ho 何傳愷
(Associate Professor, National Taiwan University)
Title: Warming neutralizes host-specific competitive advantages between a native and invasive herbivore
Dr. Ho is interested in plant-animal interactions and environmental change. He studies plants, herbivores, predators, and omnivores to investigate these topics: (1) plant-herbivore interactions across spatial gradients (e.g., latitude and altitude); (2) climate change impact on plant-animal communities in natural and agricultural systems; (3) applying ecology to conservation (e.g., restoration) or agriculture (e.g. biocontrol).
Ya-Fu Lee 李亞夫
(Professor, National Cheng Kung University)
Title: Flying-foxes’ dependence on and interactions with figs on Iriomote Island and the conservation implications
Dr. Lee is interested in behavioral ecology, community ecology, evolutionary ecology, and conservation biology. He studies terrestrial vertebrates (e.g., bats and birds), invertebrates, and plants to investigate these themes: (1) integrating behavioral, sensory, and cognitive ecology to understand the habitat and resource use of animals; (2) animal-plant interactions and their effects on community structure; (3) restoration and conservation in agricultural and urban ecosystems.
Masahiro Nakaoka 仲岡雅裕
(Professor, Hokkaido University)
Title: Plant-animal interactions in warming oceans
Dr. Nakaoka is a marine ecologist. His research interests cover wide ranges of marine ecology, ranging from basic subjects like plant-animal interactions in eelgrass beds, to more applied topics like evaluation of multiple ecosystem services from coastal ecosystems in Asia. He has been collaborating activity with researchers in other countries, using Akkeshi Marine Station (Hokkaido University) as a node of international network studies such as ZEN (Zostera Experimental Network), GAME (Global Approach by Modular Experiments) and TSUNAGARI (Belmont Forum-funded international project).
Shoji Naoe 直江将司
(Senior scientist, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)
Title: Do mountain-climbing animals protect plants from global warming by their vertical seed dispersal?
Dr. Naoe is interested in forest dynamics driven by animals, and especially focusing on the role of seed dispersal by birds and mammals in a changing world. He is currently investigating whether plants threatened by global warming benefit from seed dispersal by animals.
Shunsuke Utsumi 内海俊介
(Associate Professor, Hokkaido University)
Title: Evolving plant-insect-microbe interactions in a changing world
Dr. Utsumi has interests in a wide range of subjects in ecology, evolution, and genetics of animal-plant-microbe interactions in terrestrial ecosystems. Particularly, he seeks to understand contemporary evolution in nature and dynamic interplays between ecology and evolution of biological interactions.
5. 2018/11/24 (Sat) 14:45~16:15
Coral Reef Ecology
Organizers:
Chaolun Allen Chen 陳昭倫
(Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica)
Yoko Nozawa 野澤洋耕
(Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
Vianney Denis
(Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University)
Title: Acknowledging the shades of reefs: diversity and determinism of benthic communities in Taiwan (Vianney DENIS & Yu-Ting Vicky LIN)
Dr. Denis is a coral reef ecologist. His work focuses on broad-scale ecological processes in coral reefs and on the functional importance of reef organisms to the resilience of this ecosystem.
Yasuhiro Kubota 久保田康裕
(Professor, University of the Ryukyus)
Title: Large-scale diversity pattern of stony coral assemblage across East Asian Islands
Dr. Kubota is a community ecologist. He is interested in bridging between local-scale ecological studies and the concepts/theories of biogeography and macroecology. He mainly focuses on terrestrial plant communities (forests), but also marine biodiversity (corals and fishes), and investigates hierarchical processes of species assembly in time and space.
Chao-Yang Kuo 郭兆揚
(Postdoctoral Fellow, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Title: Trait-based approaches: the alternative strategies seeking the information hidden behind coral cover
Dr. Kuo has been monitoring the long-term dynamic of coral assemblages in Kenting National Park, Taiwan. With the trait-based approaches developed through his PhD, he is currently exploring the information hidden behind coral cover, the most popular index used to evaluate the status of coral assemblages, to have a better understanding of the long-term dynamic of coral assemblages.
Chuya Shinzato 新里宙也
(Associate Professor, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)
Title: Application of genomics to coral biology
Dr. Shinzato has been studying diverse fields of coral biology using genomics techniques. He and his colleagues decoded whole genomes of a coral and an endosymbiotic alga (Symbiodinium). Using these genome data, he performed a population genomics analysis of the coral around Okinawa, and recently developed a method for coral reef monitoring using environmental DNA.
Cheng-Han Tsai 蔡政翰
(Ph.D. Candidate, Australian Institute of Marine Science, James Cook University)
Title: Variation in relative species abundance of reef fishes: drivers and ecosystem impacts
Cheng-Han’s studies focusing on bridging the gap between predictions of theory and empirical data analysis, mostly in related to spatial and temporal patterns in community ecology. This approach brings him to diverse ecological systems, including terrestrial tree communities, fresh water phytoplankton and gobies, and marine coral reef fishes.