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Toshihiko Hara

Toshihiko Hara

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
6063
World Ranking
5162
National Ranking
22

Overview

Toshihiko Hara is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding ecological and molecular processes.

The subfields of study in which Toshihiko Hara has contributed include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science

The main research topics covered in their work are:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Toshihiko Hara has co-authored extensively with various researchers. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Motomu Toda
  • Jiří Doležal
  • Pavel Fibich
  • Jan Altman
  • Ryouichi Tanaka

Their publications have appeared in several scientific journals. Notable venues with multiple publications include:

  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Oikos

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Toshihiko Hara comprise:

  • Determinants of ecosystem stability in a diverse temperate forest, 2020, Oikos
  • Reversible down-regulation of photosystems I and II leads to fast photosynthesis recovery after long-term drought in Jatropha curcas, 2022, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • 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
  • Complete Chloroplast Genome of Japanese Larch (Larix kaempferi): Insights into Intraspecific Variation with an Isolated Northern Limit Population, 2020, Forests
  • Simulated effects of canopy structural complexity on forest productivity, 2023, Forest Ecology and Management

Toshihiko Hara has also contributed to book publications, including:

  • An Essay on the Principle of Sustainable Population, 2020, Springer International Publishing

Best Publications

  • Latitudinal variation in plant size and relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Bo Li;Jun-Ichirou Suzuki;Toshihiko Hara

  • A stochastic model and the moment dynamics of the growth and size distribution in plant populations

    Toshihiko Hara

  • Dynamics of size structure in plant populations

    Toshihiko Hara

  • Effects of understory dwarf bamboo on soil water and the growth of overstory trees in a dense secondary Betula ermanii forest, northern Japan: Understory dwarf bamboo and overstory trees

    Koichi Takahashi;Shigeru Uemura;Jun-Ichirou Suzuki;Toshihiko Hara

  • Effect of salicylic acid on chlorophyll and carotenoid contents of wheat and moong seedlings

    S.T. Moharekar;S.T. Moharekar;S.D. Lokhande;T. Hara;R. Tanaka

  • Growth dynamics and size structure of shoots of Phragmites australis, a clonal plant

    T. Hara;J. Van Der Toorn;J. H. Mook

  • Bioturbation of Burrowing Crabs Promotes Sediment Turnover and Carbon and Nitrogen Movements in an Estuarine Salt Marsh

    Jin Qing Wang;Xiao Dong Zhang;Li Fen Jiang;Mark D. Bertness

  • GROWTH PATTERNS OF TREE HEIGHT AND STEM DIAMETER IN POPULATIONS OF ABIES VEITCHII, A. MARIESII AND BETULA ERMANII

    Toshihiko Hara;Makoto Kimura;Kihachiro Kikuzawa

  • Size hierarchies of shoots and clones in clonal herb monocultures: do clonal and non-clonal plants compete differently?

    Hans de Kroon;Toshihiko Hara;Rene Kwant

  • Dynamics of stand structure in plant monocultures

    Toshihiko Hara

  • Parameterisation of aerodynamic roughness over boreal, cool- and warm-temperate forests

    Taro Nakai;Akihiro Sumida;Ken'ichi Daikoku;Kazuho Matsumoto

  • Size symmetry of competition alters biomass-density relationships.

    Peter Stoll;Jacob Weiner;Helene Muller-Landau;Elke Müller

  • Effects of understory dwarf bamboo on soil water and the growth of overstory trees in a dense secondary Betula ermanii forest, northern Japan

    Koichi Takahashi;Shigeru Uemura;Jun-Ichirou Suzuki;Toshihiko Hara

  • Leaf litterfall and decomposition of different above- and belowground parts of birch ( Betula ermanii ) trees and dwarf bamboo ( Sasa kurilensis ) shrubs in a young secondary forest in Northern Japan

    S. K. Tripathi;S. K. Tripathi;A. Sumida;H. Shibata;K. Ono

  • Within population genetic differentiation in traits affecting clonal growth: Festuca rubra in a mountain grassland

    H. Skálová;S. Pecháčková;J. Suzuki;J. Suzuki;T. Herben

  • Effects of the Mode of Competition on Stationary Size Distribution in Plant Populations

    Toshihiko Hara

  • A Canopy Photosynthesis Model for the Dynamics of Size Structure and Self-thinning in Plant Populations

    Masayuki Yokozawa;Toshihiko Hara

  • Competitive Asymmetry Reduces Spatial Effects on Size-Structure Dynamics in Plant Populations

    Toshihiko Hara;Tomasz Wyszomirski

  • Foliage Profile, Size Structure and Stem Diameter-Plant Height Relationship in Crowded Plant Populations

    Masayuki Yokozawa;Toshihiko Hara

  • Tree Competition and Species Coexistence in a Sub-boreal Forest, Northern Japan

    Yasuhiro Kubota;Toshihiko Hara

  • Size-structured populations: Ecology and evolution: edited by Bo Ebenman and Lennart Persson, Springer-Verlag, 1988. DM 148.00 (xiv+284 pages) ISBN 3 540 501886

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Frequent Co-Authors

Masayuki Yokozawa
Masayuki Yokozawa Waseda University
Tomáš Herben
Tomáš Herben Charles University
Jiří Doležal
Jiří Doležal Czech Academy of Sciences
Yasuhiro Kubota
Yasuhiro Kubota University of the Ryukyus
Hideaki Shibata
Hideaki Shibata Hokkaido University
Takeshi Ohta
Takeshi Ohta Nagoya University
Jan Altman
Jan Altman Czech Academy of Sciences
Ayumi Tanaka
Ayumi Tanaka Hokkaido University
Seita Emori
Seita Emori University of Tokyo
Trofim C. Maximov
Trofim C. Maximov Russian Academy of Sciences

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