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Futoshi Nakamura

Futoshi Nakamura

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
6196
World Ranking
6131
National Ranking
35

Overview

Futoshi Nakamura is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has contributed to the field of environmental science, with a significant focus on ecology and landscape conservation. Their research portfolio includes studies on environmental dynamics, species conservation, and ecosystem processes.

The scientist's recent publications address a variety of ecological and environmental topics. Notable papers include:

  • Recovery and allocation of carbon stocks in boreal forests 64 years after catastrophic windthrow and salvage logging in northern Japan, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Drivers of land-use changes in societies with decreasing populations: A comparison of the factors affecting farmland abandonment in a food production area in Japan, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Risk assessment of forest disturbance by typhoons with heavy precipitation in northern Japan, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Restoration of the shifting mosaic of floodplain forests under a flow regime altered by a dam, 2020, Ecological Engineering
  • Geology-dependent impacts of forest conversion on stream fish diversity, 2020, Conservation Biology

Their frequent coauthors include Nobuo Ishiyama, Junko Morimoto, Junjiro N. Negishi, Masanao Sueyoshi, and Taihei Yamada.

Futoshi Nakamura's work has been published extensively in several scientific venues. The most common publication venues for their research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Landscape and Ecological Engineering
  • Journal of the Japanese Society of Revegetation Technology
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Water

Their research spans the main field of environmental science, with subfields that include:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Water Science and Technology

The primary topics addressed in Nakamura's work cover diverse ecological and environmental issues, including:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

In addition to journal articles, Futoshi Nakamura has contributed to book publications, including the 2022 title Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation, published under Ecological Research Monographs.

Best Publications

  • Disturbance regimes of stream and riparian systems — a disturbance‐cascade perspective

    Futoshi Nakamura;Frederick J. Swanson;Steven M. Wondzell

  • Distribution of coarse woody debris in a mountain stream, western Cascade Range, Oregon'

    Futoshi Nakamura;Frederick J. Swanson

  • The influences of land-use changes on hydrology and riparian environment in a northern Japanese landscape

    Akiko Nagasaka;Futoshi Nakamura

  • Juvenile masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) abundance and stream habitat relationships in northern Japan

    Mikio Inoue;Shigeru Nakano;Futoshi Nakamura

  • Effect of fine sediment deposition and channel works on periphyton biomass in the Makomanai River, northern Japan

    Hiroyuki Yamada;Futoshi Nakamura

  • Influences of channelization on discharge of suspended sediment and wetland vegetation in Kushiro Marsh, northern Japan

    Futoshi Nakamura;Tadashi Sudo;Satoshi Kameyama;Mieko Jitsu

  • Structure and composition of riparian forests with special reference to geomorphic site conditions along the Tokachi River, northern Japan

    Futoshi Nakamura;Takashi Yajima;Shun-ichi Kikuchi

  • Changes in riparian forests in the Kushiro Mire, Japan, associated with stream channelization

    Futoshi Nakamura;Mieko Jitsu;Satoshi Kameyama;Shigeru Mizugaki

  • Fish habitat rehabilitation using wood in the world

    Shigeya Nagayama;Futoshi Nakamura

  • Traffic noise reduces foraging efficiency in wild owls

    Masayuki Senzaki;Yuichi Yamaura;Clinton D. Francis;Futoshi Nakamura

  • Effects of pasture development on the ecological functions of riparian forests in Hokkaido in northern Japan

    Futoshi Nakamura;Hiroyuki Yamada

  • Metapopulation stability in branching river networks

    Akira Terui;Nobuo Ishiyama;Hirokazu Urabe;Satoru Ono

  • Heat Budget and Statistical Analysis of the Relationship between Stream Temperature and Riparian Forest in the Toikanbetsu River Basin, Northern Japan

    Sachiho Sugimoto;Futoshi Nakamura;Akiko Ito

  • Shifting mosaic in maintaining diversity of floodplain tree species in the northern temperate zone of Japan

    Futoshi Nakamura;Nozomi Shin;Satomi Inahara

  • Using dendrogeomorphology and 137Cs and 210Pb radiochronology to estimate recent changes in sedimentation rates in Kushiro Mire, Northern Japan, resulting from land use change and river channelization

    Shigeru Mizugaki;Futoshi Nakamura;Tohru Araya

  • The significance of meandering channel morphology on the diversity and abundance of macroinvertebrates in a lowland river in Japan

    Daisuke Nakano;Daisuke Nakano;Futoshi Nakamura

  • Rapid shrinkage of Kushiro Mire, the largest mire in Japan, due to increased sedimentation associated with land-use development in the catchment

    F Nakamura;S Kameyama;S Mizugaki

  • Effects of fluvial geomorphology on riparian tree species in Rekifune River, northern Japan

    Nozomi Shin;Futoshi Nakamura

  • Responses of macroinvertebrate communities to river restoration in a channelized segment of the Shibetsu River, Northern Japan

    Daisuke Nakano;Futoshi Nakamura

  • Drivers of land-use changes in societies with decreasing populations: A comparison of the factors affecting farmland abandonment in a food production area in Japan.

    Yoshiko Kobayashi;Motoki Higa;Kan Higashiyama;Futoshi Nakamura

  • Major decline in marine and terrestrial animal consumption by brown bears (Ursus arctos).

    Jun Matsubayashi;Jun Matsubayashi;Junko O. Morimoto;Ichiro Tayasu;Tsutomu Mano

  • Development of WTI and turbidity estimation model using SMA — application to Kushiro Mire, eastern Hokkaido, Japan

    Satoshi Kameyama;Yoshiki Yamagata;Futoshi Nakamura;Masami Kaneko

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick J. Swanson
Frederick J. Swanson US Forest Service
Hideaki Shibata
Hideaki Shibata Hokkaido University
Masashi Soga
Masashi Soga University of Tokyo
Gaku Kudo
Gaku Kudo Hokkaido University
Gordon E. Grant
Gordon E. Grant US Forest Service
Ellen Wohl
Ellen Wohl Colorado State University
Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva
Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva University of Lausanne
Luca Mao
Luca Mao University of Lincoln
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Ichiro Tayasu
Ichiro Tayasu Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

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