MOTOMU TODA

Last Updated :2024/07/05

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Associate Professor or Lecturer
E-mail
todamhiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
Energy and carbon exchange between atmosphere and forest ecosystems

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2009/04/01, 2012/03/31, Hokkaido University, Assistant Professor (Special Appointment)
  • 2012/04/01, 2019/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Lecturer

Educational Backgrounds

  • Kyoto University, Japan, 1997/04, 2000/11

Academic Degrees

  • Doctor of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Research Fields

  • Environmental science;Environmental analyses and evaluation;Environmental impact assessment

Research Keywords

  • Terrestrial forest carbon cycling, atmosphere-biosphere interaction, Forest dynamics, Phenology

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • American Geophysical Union

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Forests in the Environment
  2. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Biology I
  3. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Experimental Methods and Laboratory Work in Biology II
  4. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Laboratory Course in Natural Environmental Sciences A
  5. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Practical Methods in Natural Environmental SciencesA
  6. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Fundamental Laboratory Work in Biology
  7. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Fundamental Methodology in Biology
  8. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Laboratory Course in Natural Environmental Sciences B
  9. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Practical Methods in Natural Environmental SciencesB
  10. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Climatological ecology
  11. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Laboratory Course in Natural Environmental Sciences C
  12. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Practical Methods in Natural Environmental SciencesC
  13. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Natural Histories and Sciences
  14. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Research for Academic Degree Dissertation in Life and Environmental Sciences
  15. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Exercises in Life and Environmental Sciences A
  16. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Exercises in Life and Environmental Sciences B
  17. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Introduction to Integrated Arts and Sciences
  18. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Ecosystem ecology

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Evaluating the soil microbe community-level physiological profile using EcoPlate and soil properties at 33 forest sites across Japan, Ecological Research, 37((3)), 432-445, 20211203
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  2. Simulated effects of canopy structural complexity on forest productivity, Forest Ecology and Management, 538(120978), 20230413
  3. ★, Determination of species-specific leaf angle distribution and plant area index in a cool-temperate mixed forest from UAV and upward-pointing digital photography, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 325(325), 109151 (1-9)-109151 (1-9), 20220829
  4. Evaluating the soil microbe community-level physiological profile using EcoPlate and soil properties at 33 forest sites across Japan, ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 37(3), 432-445, 202205
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  5. A Bayesian inversion framework to evaluate parameter and predictive inference of a simple soil respiration model in a cool-temperate forest in western Japan, ECOLOGICAL MODELLING, 418, 20200215
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  6. ★, Foliage profiles of individual trees determine competition, self-thinning, biomass and NPP of a Cryptomeria japonica forest stand: A simulation study based on a stand-scale process-based forest model, Ecological Modelling, 230, 2272-2280, 2009
  7. How universal is the C-function in the bulk ABL similarity approach to estimate surface sensible heat flux?, Water Resources Research, 45(45), doi:10.1029/2008WR007390-doi:10.1029/2008WR007390, 2009
  8. 北方森林群落における大気―森林動態相互作用に関する研究, 低温科学, 68, 27-34, 2010
  9. More asymmetric tree competition brings about more evapotranspiration and less runoff from the forest ecosystems: A simulation study, Ecological Modelling, 221, 2887-2898, 2010
  10. ★, Simulating seasonal and inter-annual variations in energy and carbon exchanges and forest dynamics using a process-based atmosphere-vegetation dynamics model, Ecological Research, 26, 105-121, 2010
  11. ★, Photosynthetic recovery of foliage after wind disturbance activates ecosystem CO2 uptake in cool-temperate forest of northern Japan, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10/1029/2010JG001611-doi:10/1029/2010JG001611, 2011
  12. Transitional features of the ecosystem state and carbon dynamics after an episodic typhoon disturbance in a northern forest in Japan, Low Temperature Science, 73, 21-29, 2015
  13. Estimation of plant area index and phenological transition dates from digital repeat photography and radiometric approaches in a hardwood forest in the Northeastern United States, AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 249, 457-466, 20180215
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  14. ★, Using digital cover photography to track the canopy recovery process following a typhoon disturbance in a cool-temperate deciduous forest, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, 48(7), 740-748, 201807
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  15. Photosynthetically distinct responses of an early-successional tree, Betula ermanii, following a defoliating disturbance: observational results of a manipulated typhoon-mimic experiment, TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, 32(6), 1789-1799, 201812
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  16. ★, A Bayesin inversiyon framework to evaluate parametre and predictive inference of a simple soil respiration model in a cool-temperate forest in western Japan., Ecological Modelling, 418, 2020

Publications such as books

  1. 2015/10/25, Handbook of Low Temperature Science, 2015, 10, Scholarly Book, Joint work, J, 383, 9

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Phenology research in cool-temperate forests with a focus on evaluations of their response to changing climate, Motomu Toda, 2017/08/08, Without Invitation, English, SUFONAMA scholarship, Goettingen University
  2. Detection of photosynthetic responses of cool-temperate forests following extreme climate events using Bayesian inversion, Toda, M., Knohl, A., Herbst, M., Keenan, T.F., Yokozawa, M., Toda, M., Knohl, A., Herbst, M., Keenan, T.F., Yokozawa, M., American Geophysical Union, 2016/12/16, Without Invitation, English, AGU, SFC