Recent Research Topics in Ecological and Genetic Approaches for Sustainable Forest Management

摘要

In forests, maintaining and/or increasing biodiversity has become an increasingly important management goal to provide a broad array of ecosystem services that directly or indirectly benefit human endeavors. Although degradation of biodiversity is a worldwide concern on both global and local scales, relatively little evidence is available on the mechanisms of biodiversity. We focus on studies of mechanisms maintaining biodiversity (i.e., species diversity, genetic diversity) and ecosystem functioning.