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Ecological Developmental Adaptability Life Sciences :
Ecological Dynamics

Research

Ecological Integration

Ecological Integration

Eco-complexity and Adaptation: Toward an Integrative Understanding of Ecosystems

Research Overview

The ecosystem is extremely large and complex. A number of diverse organisms, and various non-living components, interact with each other through complicated dynamics to generate the different organizational levels of population, community, and ecosystem. Furthermore, living organisms, the essential components of ecosystem, are not static, but their morphology, behaviors, and interactions continuously change over time driven by evolutionary processes.
Many fundamental questions remain to be answered: How and why are organisms so diverse? What are the roles of evolutionary and ecological processes in the emergence and persistence of ecological systems? What keeps the ecosystem functional in nature? How can we cope with the “balance of nature”? 
In our laboratory, multiple approaches are used to understand ecological systems, including observations or experiments in the field or laboratory, data analysis using mathematical or statistical tools, and conceptual modeling.
Our interests encompass a breadth of different areas in basic and applied ecology, such as (1) understanding the structure and dynamics of ecosystems, (2) establishing a data-driven ecology model based on large data sets (e.g. environmental DNA (eDNA) data, ecological databases), (3) understanding the evolution of plant reproductive strategies (floral sexual allocation, coevolution of flower visitors, and seed production) and (4) developing a theoretical framework for forecasting and controlling ecological dynamics.

URLs http://hostgk3.biology.tohoku.ac.jp/

Faculty Members

Professor KONDOH Michio
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Professor FUJITA Kaori (C)
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Biodiversity and natural capital in business, disclosure of natural capital and its relationship with finance, sustainable procurement, SDGs and local development
Assistant Professor KAWATSU Kazutaka
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Integration of ecology and dynamical systems theory
Development of new analytical methods to understand ecological phenomena

 
Assistant Professor DANSU EMMANUEL JESUYON
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Mathematical Ecology
Mathematical Epidemiology
Mathematical Sociology
Mathematical Modeling
Population Dynamics
Data Science
Machine Learning
Assistant Professor TANABE Akifumi
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Assistant Professor YANG Jiwei
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Elucidation of Marine Fish Community Dynamics Based on Environmental DNA