Members
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● Masato YAMAMICHI Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
Research Topic: Eco-evolutionary feedbacks: theoretical and experimental approaches
Short Introduction
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.
Latest News
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Jan. 30, 2017
Hirokazu Toju and Masato Yamamichi published "Species-rich networks and eco-evolutionary synthesis at the metacommunity level" in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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Nov. 10, 2016
Masato Yamamichi and Masaki Hoso published "Roles of maternal effects in maintaining genetic variation: Maternal storage effect" in Evolution.
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Jun. 21, 2016
Masato Yamamichi published "Searching for prey in a three-dimensional environment: hierarchical movements enhance foraging success in northern elephant seals" in Functional Ecology.
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Mar. 24, 2016
Masato Yamamichi published "Antagonistic coevolution between quantitative and Mendelian traits" in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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Jan. 12, 2016
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.
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Dec. 22, 2015
Masato Yamamichi published " Nestling polymorphism in a cuckoo-host system " in Current Biology.
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Jul. 14, 2015
Masato Yamamichi published "Indirect evolutionary rescue: prey adapts, predator avoids extinction" in Evolutionary Applications.
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Apr. 28, 2015
Masato Yamamichi published "Rapid evolution of a consumer stoichiometric trait destabilizes consumer–producer dynamics" in Oikos.
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Oct. 23, 2014
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)
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Aug. 2, 2014
Masato Yamamichi published ''Timing and propagule size of invasion determine its success by a time-varying threshold of demographic regime shift'' in Ecology
