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59
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2371
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843

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Tadashi Fukami is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and focuses research primarily within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science fields. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Insect Science, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research addresses diverse topics such as Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Insect and Pesticide Research, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Tadashi Fukami has contributed to multiple research publications with frequent coauthors including Kaoru Tsuji, Sergio Álvarez-Pérez, Rachel L. Vannette, Bart Lievens, and Hans Jacquemyn. Their work has appeared in recurring publication venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Microbial Ecology, Nature, and Ecology Letters.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Intensive farming drives long-term shifts in avian community composition, 2020, Nature
  • Potential effects of nectar microbes on pollinator health, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Wide-ranging consequences of priority effects governed by an overarching factor, 2022, eLife
  • Untangling the complexity of priority effects in multispecies communities, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Priority effects transcend scales and disciplines in biology, 2024, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

    Margaret McFall-Ngai;Michael G. Hadfield;Thomas C. G. Bosch;Hannah V. Carey

  • Patterns and Processes of Microbial Community Assembly

    Diana R. Nemergut;Steven K. Schmidt;Tadashi Fukami;Sean P. O'Neill

  • Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

    Wim H. van der Putten;Richard D. Bardgett;James D. Bever;T. Martijn Bezemer

  • Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

    Tadashi Fukami

  • Species divergence and trait convergence in experimental plant community assembly

    T. Fukami;T.M. Bezemer;S.R. Mortimer;W.H. Van der Putten

  • Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities.

    Tadashi Fukami;Tadashi Fukami;Ian A. Dickie;J. Paula Wilkie;Barbara C. Paulus

  • Long-term ecological dynamics: reciprocal insights from natural and anthropogenic gradients

    Tadashi Fukami;David A Wardle

  • Above‐ and below‐ground impacts of introduced predators in seabird‐dominated island ecosystems

    Tadashi Fukami;Tadashi Fukami;David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle;Peter J. Bellingham;Christa P. H. Mulder

  • Role of priority effects in the early-life assembly of the gut microbiota.

    Daniel Sprockett;Tadashi Fukami;David A. Relman;David A. Relman

  • Community assembly: alternative stable states or alternative transient states?

    Tadashi Fukami;Mifuyu Nakajima

  • Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology

    François Massol;Dominique Gravel;Dominique Gravel;Nicolas Mouquet;Marc W. Cadotte

  • Linking modern coexistence theory and contemporary niche theory

    Andrew D. Letten;Po-Ju Ke;Tadashi Fukami

  • Phylogenetic relatedness predicts priority effects in nectar yeast communities

    Kabir G. Peay;Melinda Belisle;Tadashi Fukami

  • Productivity–biodiversity relationships depend on the history of community assembly

    Tadashi Fukami;Peter J. Morin

  • Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground-belowground ecology

    Wim H. van der Putten;R. D. Bardgett;P. C. de Ruiter;W. H. G. Hol

  • Nectar bacteria, but not yeast, weaken a plant–pollinator mutualism

    Rachel L. Vannette;Marie-Pierre L. Gauthier;Tadashi Fukami

  • Immigration history controls diversification in experimental adaptive radiation

    Tadashi Fukami;Hubertus J. E. Beaumont;Xue-Xian Zhang;Paul B. Rainey

  • Historical contingency in species interactions: towards niche‐based predictions

    Rachel L. Vannette;Tadashi Fukami

  • Consequences of plant–soil feedbacks in invasion

    Katharine N. Suding;William Stanley Harpole;Tadashi Fukami;Andrew Kulmatiski

  • Do assembly history effects attenuate from species to ecosystem properties? A field test with wood-inhabiting fungi

    Ian A. Dickie;Tadashi Fukami;Tadashi Fukami;J. Paula Wilkie;Robert B. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Marc W. Cadotte
Marc W. Cadotte University of Toronto
Kabir G. Peay
Kabir G. Peay Stanford University
Ian A. Dickie
Ian A. Dickie University of Canterbury
William G. Lee
William G. Lee Landcare Research
Peter J. Bellingham
Peter J. Bellingham Landcare Research
Bart Lievens
Bart Lievens KU Leuven
Wim H. van der Putten
Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University
Andrew Kulmatiski
Andrew Kulmatiski Utah State University

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