ITOH, Masayuki

itoma cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Research Departments・Position

Environmental Coexistence・Affiliated Associate Professor

Area

Research Interests / Keywords

・Research on Material Cycling in Various Ecosystems in Tropical region
・Human Impacts on Material Cycling in Tropical Forests and Peatlands
・Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in Subtropical lakes


Overview

Research on Material Cycling in Various Ecosystems in Tropical region

I conducted the rehabilitation (planting trees and utilization of biomass for power plant) in degraded land after tin mining in Indonesian Island, as an industry-university joint research. We analyzed satellite and drone information and the dataset of intensive field survey of hydrological and soil chemical and physical condition and submitted a manuscript to international journal.

Human Impacts on Material Cycling in Tropical Forests and Peatlands

I continued field research in tropical peat area in Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak province, and in Indonesia (Riau province, Sumatra, Central Kalimantan provinces). I conducted biogeochemical and hydrological research in degraded peatland ecosystems for evaluating the difference in environmental condition between various land uses such as the changes of carbon storage and its flow with the land use changes

Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in Subtropical lakes

In Taiwan and the Philippines, I’m conducting the collaborative research on food-web analyses reservoirs. We compered the inter-latitude differences of greenhouse gas dynamics in reservoirs and published the review paper of “Integrating isotopic, microbial, and modeling approaches to understand methane dynamics in a frequently disturbed deep reservoir in Taiwan” in this fiscal year.

Research funds

Type Theme Period
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 東南アジア熱帯低湿地火災への多面的アプローチによる熱帯低湿地学の構築 2019 – 2022
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) Effects of land conversion from tropical peat swamp forest to oil palm plantations on ecosystem functions and the atmospheric environment 2019 – 2023
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Is Tropical Peatland in SE Asia a huge CH4 source? 2018 – 2020
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 熱帯雨林生態系における水循環機構と植生のレジリエンスの相互作用の解明 2018 – 2021
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) New insights into the methane emission processes from wetland ecosystems: A concerted activity of atmospheric chemistry and plant ecology researches 2018 – 2020
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Latitudinal pattern of methanotrophic food webs driving carbon and nitrogen cycling in lakes 2016 – 2018
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 大規模開発下における熱帯泥炭湿地の水文過程解明と防火のための水・植生管理の検討 2016 – 2018
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) Effects of rapid environmental changes on GHG dynamics in Tropical peatlands 2015 – 2017
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research Desingn of Rice Crop Insurance in Semi-arid Cameroon 2014 – 2017
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) Evaluation of the carbon balance of tropical peat ecosystems using a tower-flux network 2013 – 2016