Masato YAMAMICHI　Assistant ProfessorAlumni
  • Period
    5th（Term: from Apr. 2014 to Mar. 2019）
    グローバル型
  • Research Interests
    Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
  • Research Topic
    Eco-evolutionary feedbacks: theoretical and experimental approaches

The world’s population keeps growing, whereas the catch of eel is dramatically decreasing. Why are the population sizes changing? Ecologists have revealed that population dynamics are affected by various factors, such as climate change, food depletion, and natural enemies. Recent studies have found that adaptive evolution can be rapid enough to affect contemporary population dynamics. Masato is interested in the effects of rapid evolution on ecology and feedbacks between them (eco-evolutionary feedbacks). He employs theoretical and experimental approaches to under stand the eco-evolutionary feedbacks in predator-prey systems. From mathematical equations and experimental microcosms, he is trying to understand complex adaptation and population dynamics in natural ecosystems.

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2018.05.17 Publications
Hirokazu Toju (Hakubi 1st Batch, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University) and Masato Yamamichi (Hakubi 5th Batch, The University of Tokyo) et al. published a paper titled “Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems” in Nature Plants, volume,
2017.01.30 Publications
Hirokazu Toju and Masato Yamamichi published “Species-rich networks and eco-evolutionary synthesis at the metacommunity level” in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
2016.11.10 Publications
Masato Yamamichi and Masaki Hoso published “Roles of maternal effects in maintaining genetic variation: Maternal storage effect” in Evolution.
2016.11.10 Publications
Masato Yamamichi and Masaki Hoso published “Roles of maternal effects in maintaining genetic variation: Maternal storage effect” in Evolution.
2016.06.21 Publications
Masato Yamamichi published “Searching for prey in a three-dimensional environment: hierarchical movements enhance foraging success in northern elephant seals” in Functional Ecology.
2016.03.24 Publications
Masato Yamamichi published “Antagonistic coevolution between quantitative and Mendelian traits” in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2016.01.12 Publications
Masato Yamamichi published “Linking structure and function in food webs: maximization of different ecological functions generates distinct food-web structures” in Journal of Animal Ecology.
2015.12.22 Publications
Masato Yamamichi published ” Nestling polymorphism in a cuckoo-host system ” in Current Biology.
2015.07.14 Publications
Masato Yamamichi published “Indirect evolutionary rescue: prey adapts, predator avoids extinction” in Evolutionary Applications.
2015.04.28 Publications
Masato Yamamichi published “Rapid evolution of a consumer stoichiometric trait destabilizes consumer–producer dynamics” in Oikos.
2014.10.23 Publications
Masato Yamamichi published “Form of an evolutionary tradeoff affects eco-evolutionary dynamics in a predator–prey system” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
2014.08.02 Publications
Masato Yamamichi published ”Timing and propagule size of invasion determine its success by a time-varying threshold of demographic regime shift” in Ecology