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Shin-ichiro Aiba

Shin-ichiro Aiba

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
31
Citations
5628
World Ranking
8195
National Ranking
63

Overview

Shin-ichiro Aiba is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Insect Science.

The scientist's research focuses on core topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Forest ecology and management, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and African Botany and Ecology Studies.

Shin-ichiro Aiba's recent published papers include the following:

  • The global abundance of tree palms, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities, 2024, Nature
  • Temperature is a dominant driver of distinct annual seasonality of leaf litter production of equatorial tropical rain forests, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Tropical cyclones and island area shape species abundance distributions of local tree communities, 2020, Oikos
  • Effects of El Niño drought on tree mortality and growth across forest types at different elevations in Borneo, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management

Frequent co-authors in Shin-ichiro Aiba's research include:

  • Kanehiro Kitayama
  • Peter S. Ashton
  • Eizi Suzuki
  • Kofi Affum-Baffoe
  • Esteban Álvarez-Dávila

The scientist often publishes in the following venues:

  • Ecological Research
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Biotropica
  • Tropics
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem structure and productivity of tropical rain forests along altitudinal gradients with contrasting soil phosphorus pools on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

    Kanehiro Kitayama;Shin-Ichiro Aiba

  • Structure, composition and species diversity in an altitude-substrate matrix of rain forest tree communities on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

    Shin-ichiro Aiba;Kanehiro Kitayama

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Environmental correlates of tree biomass, basal area, wood specific gravity and stem density gradients in Borneo's tropical forests

    J.W.F. Slik;Shin Ichiro Aiba;Francis Q. Brearley;Chuck H. Cannon;Chuck H. Cannon

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Long-term carbon sink in Borneo’s forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edge effects

    Lan Qie;Lan Qie;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Effects of topography on tropical lower montane forests under different geological conditions on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

    Masaaki Takyu;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Kanehiro Kitayama

  • CROWN ARCHITECTURE AND LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS OF 14 TREE SPECIES IN A WARM-TEMPERATE RAIN FOREST : SIGNIFICANCE OF SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY

    Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Takashi Kohyama

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Soil phosphorus fractionation and phosphorus-use efficiencies of tropical rainforests along altitudinal gradients of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

    K. Kitayama;N. Majalap-Lee;S.-I. Aiba

  • Trade-off between light interception efficiency and light use efficiency: implications for species coexistence in one-sided light competition

    Yusuke Onoda;Yusuke Onoda;Jema B. Saluñga;Kosuke Akutsu;Shin ichiro Aiba

  • Environmental correlates for tropical tree diversity and distribution patterns in Borneo

    J.W.F. Slik;N. Raes;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;F.Q. Brearley

  • Tree species stratification in relation to allometry and demography in a warm-temperate rain forest

    Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Takashi Kohyama

  • Fruit fall in tropical and temperate forests: implications for frugivore diversity.

    Goro Hanya;Shin-ichiro Aiba

  • Effects of the 1997–98 El Niño drought on rain forests of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

    Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Kanehiro Kitayama

  • The global abundance of tree palms

    Robert Muscarella;Robert Muscarella;Thaise Emilio;Thaise Emilio;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • The effects of a typhoon on Japanese warm temperate rainforests

    P. J. Bellingham;Takashi Kohyama;Shin-ichiro Aiba

  • Habitat associations with topography and canopy structure of tree species in a tropical montane forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

    Shin-ichiro Aiba;Kanehiro Kitayama;Masaaki Takyu

  • Seasonality in fruit availability affects frugivorous primate biomass and species richness

    Goro Hanya;Pablo R. Stevenson;Maria A. van Noordwijk;Siew Te Wong

  • Changes in biomass, productivity and decomposition along topographical gradients under different geological conditions in tropical lower montane forests on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo.

    Masaaki Takyu;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Kanehiro Kitayama

Frequent Co-Authors

Kanehiro Kitayama
Kanehiro Kitayama Kyoto University
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Reuben Nilus
Reuben Nilus Sabah Forestry Department
Francis Q. Brearley
Francis Q. Brearley Manchester Metropolitan University
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Jon C. Lovett
Jon C. Lovett University of Leeds
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Susan G. Laurance
Susan G. Laurance James Cook University
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University

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