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Jotaro Urabe

Jotaro Urabe

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
8444
World Ranking
5260
National Ranking
24

Overview

Jotaro Urabe is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Genetic Diversity and Population Structure

Urabe has published papers in several journals, with frequent publication venues including Limnology, Ecology and Evolution, Freshwater Biology, Ecological Research, and Ecology and Civil Engineering.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Urabe are:

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Effects of Crucian Carp (Carassius auratus) on Water Quality in Aquatic Ecosystems: An Experimental Mesocosm Study, 2020, Water
  • Temporal β-diversity of zooplankton at various time scales in a small mountain lake, 2020, Limnology
  • Long-term dynamics of a cladoceran community from an early stage of lake formation in Lake Fukami-ike, Japan, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Terrigenous subsidies in lakes support zooplankton production mainly via a green food chain and not the brown food chain, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of Urabe's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Wataru Makino
  • Hajime Ohtsuki
  • Natsumi Maruoka
  • Yurie Otake
  • Isamu Wakana

Best Publications

  • THE STOICHIOMETRY OF CONSUMER-DRIVEN NUTRIENT RECYCLING: THEORY, OBSERVATIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES

    James J. Elser;Jotaro Urabe

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

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  • Ecological stoichiometry: An elementary approach using basic principles

    Dag O. Hessen;James J. Elser;Robert W. Sterner;Jotaro Urabe

  • Possibility of N or P limitation for planktonic cladocerans: An experimental test

    Jotaro Urabe;Yasunori Watanabe

  • NUTRIENT LIMITATION REDUCES FOOD QUALITY FOR ZOOPLANKTON: DAPHNIA RESPONSE TO SESTON PHOSPHORUS ENRICHMENT

    James J. Elser;Kazuhide Hayakawa;Jotaro Urabe

  • Scale-dependent carbon:nitrogen:phosphorus seston stoichiometry in marine and freshwaters

    Robert W. Sterner;Tom Andersen;James J. Elser;Dag O. Hessen

  • Metabolic Stoichiometry and the Fate of Excess Carbon and Nutrients in Consumers

    Thomas R. Anderson;Dag O. Hessen;James J. Elser;Jotaro Urabe

  • Phosphorus limitation of Daphnia growth: Is it real?

    Jotaro Urabe;Jessica Clasen;Robert W. Sterner

  • REGULATION OF HERBIVORE GROWTH BY THE BALANCE OF LIGHT AND NUTRIENTS

    Jotaro Urabe;Robert W. Sterner

  • Reduced light increases herbivore production due to stoichiometric effects of light/nutrient balance

    J. Urabe;M. Kyle;W. Makino;T. Yoshida

  • Stoichiometric impacts of increased carbon dioxide on a planktonic herbivore

    Jotaro Urabe;Jun Togari;James J. Elser

  • Contrasting effects of different types of resource depletion on life-history traits in Daphnia

    J. Urabe;R. W. Sterner

  • N and P Cycling Coupled by Grazers' Activities: Food Quality and Nutrient Release by Zooplankton

    Jotaro Urabe

  • Contribution of metazoan plankton to the cycling of nitrogen and phosphorus in Lake Biwa

    Jotaro Urabe;Masami Nakanishi;Keiichi Kawabata

  • Assessment of ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ forces as determinants of rotifer distribution among lakes in Ontario, Canada

    Takehito Yoshida;Jotaro Urabe;James J. Elser

  • Herbivorous animals can mitigate unfavourable ratios of energy and material supplies by enhancing nutrient recycling

    Jotaro Urabe;James J. Elser;Marcia Kyle;Takehito Yoshida

  • The influence of fluctuating light intensities on species composition and diversity of natural phytoplankton communities.

    Sabine Flöder;Jotaro Urabe;Zen ichiro Kawabata

  • Immediate ecological impacts of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami on intertidal flat communities.

    Jotaro Urabe;Takao Suzuki;Tatsuki Nishita;Wataru Makino

  • Phytoplankton growth rate as a function of cell size : an experimental test in Lake Biwa

    Maiko Kagami;Jotaro Urabe

  • Regulation of the relationship between phytoplankton Scenedesmus acutus and heterotrophic bacteria by the balance of light and nutrients

    Tek Bahadur Gurung;Jotaro Urabe;Masami Nakanishi

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    I-Ching Chen;Chih-hao Hsieh;Michio Kondoh;Hsing-Juh Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
Maiko Kagami
Maiko Kagami Yokohama National University
Robert W. Sterner
Robert W. Sterner University of Minnesota, Duluth
Dag O. Hessen
Dag O. Hessen University of Oslo
Hideyuki Doi
Hideyuki Doi Kyoto University
Nelson G. Hairston
Nelson G. Hairston Cornell University
Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen University of Oslo
Shinsuke Tanabe
Shinsuke Tanabe Ehime University
Toshi Nagata
Toshi Nagata University of Tokyo
Louis Legendre
Louis Legendre Université Paris Cité

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