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Takakazu Yumoto

Takakazu Yumoto

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
5535
World Ranking
6651
National Ranking
45

Overview

Takakazu Yumoto is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan. Their research broadly encompasses the fields of Psychology, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Environmental Science, with specific focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work addresses main topics including Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, as well as Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Takakazu Yumoto has contributed to various scientific publications with a primary focus on primate ecology and behavior. Recent papers include:

  • The diet and feeding behavior of the black-and-white colobus (Colobus guereza) in the Kalinzu Forest, Uganda, 2020, published in Primates
  • Dietary Choices of a Foregut-Fermenting Primate, Colobus guereza: A Comprehensive Approach Including Leaf Chemical and Mechanical Properties, Digestibility and Abundance, 2022, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • 18-year plant reproductive phenology dataset from Lambir, Borneo, including four large general flowering events, 2025, published in Ecology
  • Eat the fruit earlier: Sakis (Pithecia chrysocephala) show enhanced temporal fruit resource access compared with squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) in an urban forest fragment in Brazil, 2023, published in American Journal of Primatology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Takakazu Yumoto include Ikki Matsuda, Hiroshi Ihobe, Deborah Baranga, Chie Hashimoto, and Yasuko Tashiro. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications contributing to their areas of study.

Their research has been disseminated across several venues, frequently publishing in journals such as Primates, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Ecology, and American Journal of Primatology.

Best Publications

  • Pollination biology in a lowland dipterocarp forest in Sarawak, Malaysia. I. Characteristics of the plant-pollinator community in a lowland dipterocarp forest

    Kuniyasu Momose;Takakazu Yumoto;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu;Makoto Kato

  • Plant reproductive phenology over four years including an episode of general flowering in a lowland dipterocarp forest, Sarawak, Malaysia

    Shoko Sakai;Kuniyasu Momose;Takakazu Yumoto;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu

  • Interactions between fleshy fruits and frugivores in a tropical seasonal forest in Thailand

    Shumpei Kitamura;Takakazu Yumoto;Pilai Poonswad;Phitaya Chuailua

  • Dietary and ranging overlap in sympatric gorillas and chimpanzees in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Zaire

    Juichi Yamagiwa;Tamaki Maruhashi;Takakazu Yumoto;Ndunda Mwanza

  • History of forest loss and degradation in Indonesia

    Riyou Tsujino;Takakazu Yumoto;Shumpei Kitamura;Ibrahim Djamaluddin

  • Fruiting phenology of animal-dispersed plants in response to winter migration of frugivores in a warm temperate forest on Yakushima Island, Japan

    Naohiko Noma;Takakazu Yumoto

  • Seasonality and vertical structure of light-attracted insect communities in a dipterocarp forest in Sarawak

    Makoto Kato;Tamiji Inoue;Abang Abdul Hamid;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu

  • Seasonal change in the composition of the diet of eastern lowland gorillas

    Juichi Yamagiwa;Ndunda Mwanza;Takakazu Yumoto;Tamaki Maruhashi

  • A census of the eastern lowland gorillas Gorilla gorilla graueri in Kahuzi-Biega National Park with reference to mountain gorillas G. g. beringei in the Virunga Region, Zaire

    Juichi Yamagiwa;Ndunda Mwanza;Andrea Spangenberg;Tamaki Maruhashi

  • Diet of Grauer's gorillas in the montane forest of Kahuzi, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Juichi Yamagiwa;Augustin Kanyunyi Basabose;Kiswele Kaleme;Takakazu Yumoto

  • Beetle pollination of Shorea parvifolia (section Mutica, Dipterocarpaceae) in a general flowering period in Sarawak, Malaysia

    Shoko Sakai;Kuniyasu Momose;Takakazu Yumoto;Makoto Kato

  • Population Density and Ranging Pattern of Chimpanzees in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Zaire: A Comparison with a Sympatric Population of Gorillas

    Juichi Yamagiwa;Ndunda Mwanza;Andrea Spangenberg;Tamaki Maruhashi

  • Six-Year Population Fluctuation of the Giant Honey Bee Apis dorsata (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in a Tropical Lowland Dipterocarp Forest in Sarawak

    Takao Itioka;Tamiji Inoue;Het Kaliang;Makoto Kato

  • Approaches in Density Estimates and Reconstruction of Social Groups in a Western Lowland Gorilla Population in the Ndoki Forest, Northern Congo.

    Masazumi Mitani;Juichi Yamagiwa;Rufin Antoine Oko;Jean-Marie Moutsamboté

  • PHENOLOGY OF FRUITS CONSUMED BY A SYMPATRIC POPULATION OF GORILLAS AND CHIMPANZEES IN KAHUZIBIEGA NATIONAL PARK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

    Juichi Yamagiwa;Augustin Kanyunyi Basabose;Kiswele Prince Kaleme;Takakazu Yumoto

  • Effects of sika deer on tree seedlings in a warm temperate forest on Yakushima Island, Japan

    Riyou Tsujino;Takakazu Yumoto

  • Pollination systems in a warm temperate evergreen broad-leaved forest on Yaku Island

    Takakazu Yumoto

  • Cheek-pouch dispersal of seeds by Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata yakui) on Yakushima Island, Japan

    Takakazu Yumoto;Naohiko Noma;Tamaki Maruhashi

  • Floral Lists from Five Study Sites of Apes in the African Tropical Forests. List of Plant Species Identified in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Zaire.

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  • Cryptic species and host specificity in the ectomycorrhizal genus Strobilomyces (Strobilomycetaceae).

    Hirotoshi Sato;Takakazu Yumoto;Noriaki Murakami

  • Factors affecting forest area change in Southeast Asia during 1980-2010.

    Nobuo Imai;Takuya Furukawa;Riyou Tsujino;Shumpei Kitamura

  • Habitat use of bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Wamba: Selection of vegetation types for ranging, feeding, and night-sleeping.

    Saeko Terada;Janet Nackoney;Tetsuya Sakamaki;Mbangi Norbert Mulavwa

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamiji Inoue
Tamiji Inoue Kyoto University
Makoto Kato
Makoto Kato Kyoto University
Tohru Nakashizuka
Tohru Nakashizuka Tohoku University
S. Joseph Wright
S. Joseph Wright Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
I-Fang Sun
I-Fang Sun National Dong Hwa University
Ichiro Tayasu
Ichiro Tayasu Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Yoshihiko Tsumura
Yoshihiko Tsumura University of Tsukuba
Kanehiro Kitayama
Kanehiro Kitayama Kyoto University
Jürgen Hummel
Jürgen Hummel University of Göttingen
Marcus Clauss
Marcus Clauss University of Zurich

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