Acquisition and analysis of ecological information for coexistence of human beings and species to extinction

更新日:2014/02/14

1) Project

Acquisition and analysis of ecological information for coexistence of human beings and species to extinction

2) Related organization

Graduate School of Informatics http://bre.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/

3) Period

1999～

4) Outline

We, human beings, being a part of the biosphere need to sustainably utilize biological resources as food without destroying the ecology. Whilst there still are mysterious things in aquatic ecology, expectations for the possibility of providing the necessary biological resources exist. However, in recent years, the number of aquatic spices has decreased and extinction of spices which will not be utilized as resources is an issue of concern as well. Conservation of these species is becoming a major social problem. Our Bioresource Informatics course sets the challenge to clarify the ecology of aquatic animals which are not readily visible by using Biotelemetry. Biotelemetry is a new method to monitor, record, and measure a living organism’s basic physiological functions making the best use of information technology. We place small transmitters or recorders on target species and obtain ecological information of aquatic animals. Many fruitful results ha ve been obtained, which have contributed to the research on aquatic animals, being the last remaining frontier on this earth.

5) WEB

http://bre.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/seastar2000/