Workshop on "Life history regulation of forest trees: towards cross-biome analysis"

This workshop aims to seek directions of collaborative research activities on the regulatory mechanisms of forest-tree life history. The forest ecosystem with huge biomass storage provides a variation of goods and services to human society. The key life form of tree is characterized by a set of physiological, allometric, demographic and reproductive traits. We focus on cross-biome similarity and differentiation of forest trees, over a wide array of research interests and approaches, from molecular-basis of regulation to community assembly.

Date: 9:00-17:30, Friday 2 September2011
Place: D201 Lecture hall, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University

Opening: Goal setting by organizers

Session 1 Reproduction and Genetic Structure
Chair: Akiko Satake & Tsutom Hiura
Speakers:
Yu Yun Chen (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)
Koichi Kamiya (Ehime University)
Yuko Miyazaki (Okayama University)

Session 2 Functional Traits and Demography
Chair: Yoshiko Iida & Takayoshi Koike
Speakers:
I Fang Sun (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)
Masatoshi Katabuchi & Hiroko Kurokawa (Tohoku University)
Hiroaki Ishii (Kobe University)

Session 3 Community and Diversity
Chair: Toshihiko Hara & Takashi Kohyama
Speakers:
Stuart Davies (Center for Tropical Forest Science, USA)
Takashi Masaki (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)
Shawn Lum (National Institute of Education, Singapore)

Organizers: Takashi Kohyama, Yoshiko Iida, Akiko Satake, Hideaki Shibata, Tsutom Hiura, Toshihiko Hara and Takayoshi Koike (Hokkaido University)

Co-sponsored by:
Hokkaido University
Global COE Program "Integrated Field Environmental Science", Hokkaido University

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