MIYABI NAKABAYASHI

Last Updated :2025/04/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Associate Professor
E-mail
nmiyabihiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
My study field is wildlife/mammalian ecology, behavior, seed dispersal, wildlife-human conflict, and tropical ecology. Main study sites are Borneo and the Chugoku District. Please visit my website (https://sites.google.com/site/nakabayashimiyabi/) for more information.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Kyoto University
  • Kyoto University

Research Fields

  • Biology;Basic biology;Ecology / Environment

Research Keywords

  • tropical ecology, seed dispersal, Ficus, mammals

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • The Society for the Study of Human Animal Relations
  • The Ecological Society of Japan
  • The Japan Society of Tropical Ecology
  • The Mammal Society of Japan
  • Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
  • American Society of Mammalogists

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Biology I
  2. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Biology II
  3. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Fundamental Laboratory Work in Biology
  4. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Fundamental Methodology in Biology
  5. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Biodiversity and Ecology I
  6. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Biodiversity and Ecology II
  7. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Research for Academic Degree Dissertation in Life and Environmental Sciences
  8. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Exercises in Life and Environmental Sciences A
  9. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Exercises in Life and Environmental Sciences B
  10. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Biodiversity Science (Basic studies for Environmental Sciences)
  11. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering Program Common Subjects 3 (Resilient Development)

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Conservation planning in national parks may benefit from site occupancy and detection estimates of native animal species, Journal for Nature Conservation, 20230723
  2. Does monocarpic Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis regenerate after flowering in Japan? Insights from 3 years of observation after flowering, Plos one, 18(6), e0287114, 20230612
  3. Parents' orientation is more important for children's visits to greenspaces than the availability of spaces and time, LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING, 235, 202307
    Link to Paper Search Results by DOI
  4. Spatio-temporal patterns in the abundance of active terrestrial leeches in a Malaysian rainforest, Biotropica, 54, 969-978, 20220607
  5. How to encourage parents to let children play in nature: Factors affecting parental perception of children's nature play, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 69, 127497, 20220203
  6. ★, Temporal activity patterns suggesting niche partitioning of sympatric carnivores in Borneo, Malaysia, Scientific Reports, 11, Article number 19819, 20211006
  7. Effect of logging on the Ficus community at Batu Timbang research station, Imbak Canyon Conservation Area, Sabah, Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation, 17, 233-249, 20211015
  8. ★, List of food plants of four sympatric Paradoxuriane civet species based on eight-year records on Borneo, Tropics, 29, 67-75, 20200901
  9. ★, Limited directed seed dispersal in the canopy as one of the determinants of the low hemi-epiphytic figs' recruitments in Bornean rainforests, PLOS ONE, 14(6), 20190613
    Link to Paper Search Results by DOI
  10. An assessment of the terrestrial mammal community in and around Sungai Rawog Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, Proceedings of the Seminar on Sungai Rawog Conservation Area Scientific Expedition, 20190801
  11. Species diversity of Ficus in the Sungai Rawog Conservation Area, Proceedings of the Seminar on Sungai Rawog Conservation Area Scientific Expedition, 83-89, 20190801
  12. ★, Short-term movements and strong dependence on figs of binturongs (Arctictis binturong) in Bornean rainforests, European Journal of Wildlife Research, 64(6), 66, 20181010
  13. ★, Horizontal habitat preference of three sympatric Paradoxurinae civet species in a small area in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, European Journal of Wildlife Research, 63, 20161207
  14. ★, Fruit selection of a binturong (Arctictis binturong) by focal animal sampling in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, Mammalia, 81(1), 107-110, 20170101
  15. Observations of intra- and inter-specific interactions of Small-toothed Palm Civets Arctogalidia trivirgata in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, Borneo, Small Carnivore Conservation, 54, 19-22, 2017
  16. Predicted distribution of the common palm civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Viverridae) on Borneo, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, S33, 84-88, 2016
  17. ★, Behavioral feeding strategy of frugivorous civets in a Bornean rainforest, Journal of Mammalogy, 97(3), 798-805, 2016
  18. ★, Utilization of gravel roads and roadside forests by common palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) in Sabah, Malaysia, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 62, 379-388, 2014
  19. Space use, habitat selection, and day-beds of the common palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) in human-modified habitats in Sabah, Borneo, Journal of Mammalogy, 94(5), 1169-1178, 2012
  20. Coming down from the trees: Is terrestrial activity in Bornean orangutans natural or disturbance driven?, Scientific Reports, 4, 4024, 2014
  21. An observation of several Common Palm Civets Paradoxurus hermaphroditus at a fruiting tree of Endospermum diadenum in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia: comparing feeding patterns of frugivorous carnivorans, Small Carnivore Conservation, 47, 42-45, 2012
  22. Do faecal odours enable domestic cats (Felis catus) to distinguish familiarity of the donors?, Journal of Ethology, 30(2), 325-329, 2012

Publications such as books

  1. Wildlife Atlas of Sabah, Binturong, WWF-Malaysia, 2022, Scholarly Book, Contributor, English, Miyabi Nakabayashi, Henry Bernard, Jedediah F. Brodie, 9789670237732, 374, 199-205
  2. 2019, Comparison of Plant Diversity and Phenology of Riverine and Mangrove Forests with Those of the Dryland Forest in Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia, Primates in Flooded Habitats: Ecology and Conservation, Cambridge University Press, 2019, Scholarly Book, Joint work, English, Ikki Matsuda, Miyabi Nakabayashi, Yosuke Otani, Yap Sau Wai, Augustine Tuuga, Anna Wong, Henry Bernard, Serge A. Wich, Takuya Kubo, 1107134315, 478, 15-28
    Amazon URL

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Investigating coexistence mechanism of four sympatric Paradoxurinae (Carnivora: Viverridae) species in Borneo, Nakabayashi M, Tsutaya T, Ahmad AH, Sasaki Y, Ogawa ON, Ishikawa FN, Ohkouchi N, 13th International Mammalogical Congress, 2023/07/15, Without Invitation, English, the International Federation of Mammalogists and the American Society of Mammalogists, Alaska
  2. Effect of human activities on temporal activity patterns of mammals on Borneo, Miyabi Nakabayashi, Ikki Matsuda, Tomoko Kanamori, Hamid A Ahmad, Augustine Tuuga, Goro Hanya, Hamid A Ahmad, Augustine Tuuga, Virtual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 2021, 2021/07/21, Without Invitation, English, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, online
  3. Even small seeds need large seed dispersers, Miyabi Nakabayashi, 7th Frugivores and Seed Dispersal Symposium, 2020, Without Invitation, English
  4. Seed dispersal of hemi-epiphytic figs by binturongs, gibbons and hornbills on Borneo, Nakabayashi M, Ahmad HA, Izawa M, 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, 2018/07/04, Without Invitation, English, The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Kuching, Malaysia
  5. Preference for open canopy habitats by common palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, Nakabayashi M, Ahmad HA, Kohshima S, Conservation Asia 2016, 2016/06/30, Without Invitation, English, Conservation Asia, Singapore
  6. Coexistence mechanism of .three sympatric frugivorous civets in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Nakabayashi M, Ahmad HA, Kohshima S, International Conference on Rainforest Ecology, Diversity and Conservation in Borneo, 2015/06/09, Without Invitation, English
  7. Fruit selection of frugivorous carnivores; palm civets, Nakabayashi M, Ahmad AH, Kohshima S, The 3rd Asia Regional Conference of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2014/08/22, Without Invitation, English, The Society for Conservation Biology, Melaka, Malaysia
  8. Feeding Strategy of Frugivorous Carnivores in Borneo: Comparison with Frugivorous Primates, Nakabayashi M, Ahmad AH, Kohshima S, 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, 2014/07/24, Without Invitation, English, The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Cairns, Australia
  9. Feeding strategy of palm civets: carnivorans who chose to be frugivore, Nakabayashi M, Ahmad AH, Kohshima S, Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Asia-Pacific Chapter, 2013/03/19, Without Invitation, English, The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Aceh, Indonesia
  10. Seed dispersal of hemi-epiphytic figs by large animals in Bornean rainforests, Nakabayashi M, Abdul HA, Izawa M, 2018/03/16, Without Invitation, English
  11. Feeding strategy of common palm civets Paradoxurus hermaphroditus in Sabah, Malaysia, Nakabayashi M, Bernard H, 5th International Congress of East Asian Federation of Ecological Societies, 2012/03/19, Without Invitation, English, East Asian Federation of Ecological Societies, Otsu, Japan

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 2020/04/01, 2023/03/31
  2. 2017/04/01, 2020/03/31
  3. 2016/04/22, 2019/03/31
  4. 2013/04/01, 2015/03/31
  5. 2017/04/01, 2018/03/20
  6. KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists), 2020, 2022