No.157 Seminar ： An integrated approach to understand and forecast natural ecosystem dynamics –
- Masayuki USHIO (Hakubi Center/Center for Ecological Research)
- 2018/12/04 4:30pm
- The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research (Research Administration Building 1F)
- English(This seminar is open for students and researchers at Kyoto Univ.)
Summary
Understanding and forecasting natural ecosystem dynamics is crucial, not only for ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation, but also for understanding human society-natural ecosystem interactions. Recent technical advances in molecular, information and engineering technologies, including RNA expression analysis, environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis, acoustic monitoring and image processing, enable the generation of a massive amount of ecological time series, and thus these areas are of particular interests to empirical ecologists. In addition, how such massive amount of time series are analyzed also has been becoming a more important issue than ever before. To understand and forecast natural ecosystem dynamics, I have been working on the developments and applications of theoretical and empirical techniques including field census, molecular analysis and statistics. Recently, I am particularly focusing on two empirical and theoretical techniques: (1) generation of multivariable ecological time series using eDNA techniques and (2) Empirical Dynamic Modeling (EDM). In this seminar, I will overview my research activities, and introduce details of recent studies that tried to understand and forecast ecosystem dynamics by applying these new empirical and theoretical techniques.