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Tsutom Hiura

Tsutom Hiura

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
36
Citations
4296
World Ranking
4949
National Ranking
203

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
4658
World Ranking
7167
National Ranking
49

Overview

Tsutom Hiura is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans various subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work primarily focuses on topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest ecology and management, Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Forest Insect Ecology and Management.

Recent papers by Tsutom Hiura include:

  • Diversification of terpenoid emissions proposes a geographic structure based on climate and pathogen composition in Japanese cedar (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Effective distance of volatile cues for plant-plant communication in beech (2021, Ecology and Evolution)
  • Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool- and warm-temperate forests (2022, Journal of Vegetation Science)
  • Contribution of tree community structure to forest productivity across a thermal gradient in eastern Asia (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Intraspecific variation in growth-related traits-from leaf to whole-tree-in three provenances of Cryptomeria japonica canopy trees grown in a common garden (2022, Ecological Research)

Frequent coauthors of Hiura include:

  • Tetsuo I. Kohyama
  • Masahiro Nakamura
  • Takashi Kohyama
  • Douglas Sheil
  • I-Fang Sun

Their publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • Ecological Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Urban Ecosystems

Best Publications

  • Exploring the Relationships Among Canopy Structure, Stand Productivity, and Biodiversity of Temperate Forest Ecosystems

    Hiroaki T. Ishii;Shin-ichi Tanabe;Tsutom Hiura

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Demand and supply of cultural ecosystem services: Use of geotagged photos to map the aesthetic value of landscapes in Hokkaido

    Nobuhiko Yoshimura;Tsutom Hiura

  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

    Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Masae I. Ishihara;Diego R. Barneche

  • Age structure and response to fine-scale disturbances of Abies sachalinensis, Picea jezoensis, Picea glehnii, and Betula ermanii growing under the influence of a dwarf bamboo understory in northern Japan.

    Tsutom Hiura;Junji Sano;Yasuo Konno

  • Nitrogen as a key regulator of flowering in Fagus crenata: understanding the physiological mechanism of masting by gene expression analysis

    Yuko Miyazaki;Yuko Miyazaki;Yosuke Maruyama;Yukako Chiba;Masaki J. Kobayashi

  • Commercialized European bumblebee can cause pollination disturbance: An experiment on seven native plant species in Japan

    Tanaka Kenta;Naoki Inari;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu;Koichi Goka

  • Spatial and temporal pattern of introduced Bombus terrestris abundance in Hokkaido, Japan, and its potential impact on native bumblebees

    Naoki Inari;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu;Tanaka Kenta;Koichi Goka

  • Leaf anatomy and light acclimation in woody seedlings after gap formation in a cool-temperate deciduous forest

    R. Oguchi;R. Oguchi;K. Hikosaka;T. Hiura;T. Hirose

  • Allocation of resources to reproduction in Styrax obassia in a masting year

    Yuko Miyazaki;Tsutom Hiura;Etsushi Kato;R. Y.O. Funada

  • Stand structure and growth patterns of understorey trees in a coniferous forest, Taisetsuzan National Park, northern Japan

    Yasuhiro Kubota;Yasuo Konno;Tsutom Hiura

  • Gap formation and species diversity in Japanese beech forests : a test of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis on a geographic scale

    T. Hiura

  • Efficacy of generic allometric equations for estimating biomass: a test in Japanese natural forests.

    Masae I. Ishihara;Hajime Utsugi;Hiroyuki Tanouchi;Masahiro Aiba

  • Carbon cycling and budget in a forested basin of southwestern Hokkaido, northern Japan

    Hideaki Shibata;Tsutom Hiura;Yumiko Tanaka;Kentaro Takagi

  • Stochasticity of species assemblage of canopy trees and understorey plants in a temperate secondary forest created by major disturbances

    Tsutom Hiura

  • Photosynthetic responses of birch and alder saplings grown in a free air CO2 enrichment system in northern Japan

    Norikazu Eguchi;Kazuki Karatsu;Tatsushiro Ueda;Ryo Funada

  • Pollen fertility and flowering phenology in an androdioecious tree, Fraxinus lanuginosa (Oleaceae) , in Hokkaido, Japan

    Kiyoshi Ishida;Tsutom Hiura

  • Seasonal changes in the temperature response of photosynthesis in canopy leaves of Quercus crispula in a cool-temperate forest.

    Kouki Hikosaka;Eri Nabeshima;Tsutom Hiura

  • Fruit set in Styrax obassia (Styracaceae): the effect of light availability, display size, and local floral density

    Etsushi Kato;Tsutom Hiura

  • Forest stand structure, composition, and dynamics in 34 sites over Japan

    Masae I. Ishihara;Satoshi N. Suzuki;Masahiro Nakamura;Tsutomu Enoki

  • Robustness of trait distribution metrics for community assembly studies under the uncertainties of assembly processes

    Masahiro Aiba;Masatoshi Katabuchi;Hino Takafumi;Shin Ichiro S. Matsuzaki

  • Responses of Soil, Heterotrophic, and Autotrophic Respiration to Experimental Open-Field Soil Warming in a Cool-Temperate Deciduous Forest

    Nam-Jin Noh;Masatoshi Kuribayashi;Taku M. Saitoh;Tatsuro Nakaji

Frequent Co-Authors

Onno Muller
Onno Muller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Naoko Tokuchi
Naoko Tokuchi Kyoto University
Takayoshi Koike
Takayoshi Koike Hokkaido University
Ryo Funada
Ryo Funada Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Kouki Hikosaka
Kouki Hikosaka Tohoku University
Kentaro Takagi
Kentaro Takagi Hokkaido University
Yuzo Miyazaki
Yuzo Miyazaki Hokkaido University
Hideaki Shibata
Hideaki Shibata Hokkaido University
Hiroyuki Muraoka
Hiroyuki Muraoka Gifu University
Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University

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