Education
- MS in Biology, Ibaraki University
- PhD in Life Sciences, Tohoku University
Experience
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007-present) Optimal timing of leaf shedding for carbon gain of leaf and plant.
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Tohoku University, Japan (2005-2006) Interspecific competition for resources and aboveground productivity in wetland plant communities along an altitudinal gradient.
Publications
Reproductive yield of individuals competing in a dense stand of an annual, Xanthium canadense. Oecologia 157: 185-195.
Does leaf shedding increase the whole-plant carbon gain despite some nitrogen being lost with shedding? New Phytologist 178: 617-624.
Leaf lifespan and lifetime carbon gain of individual leaves in a stand of an annual herb, Xanthium canadense. New Phytologist 172: 104-116.
Dynamics of leaf area and nitrogen in a canopy of an annual herb, Xanthium canadense. Oecologia 143: 517-526
Cost-benefit relationships in fronds emerging at different times in a deciduous fern, Pteridium aquilinum. Canadian Journal of Botany 82: 521-527.