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Akira Mori

Akira Mori
B.S. (Agriculture, KPU)
M.S. (Agriculture, KU)
Ph.D. (Agriculture, KU)


Research experience
  • April 2003 - March 2004: JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) at Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • April 2004 - March 2005: JSPS Research Fellow (PD) at Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • September 2005 - Present: JSPS Oversea Research Fellow at School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Research funds
  • April 2003 - March 2005: A financial support from Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, to Akira Mori (No. 1505335)
Awards
  • March 26, 2006: Eri Mizumachi, Akira Mori. Current-year shoots and branches structural variation within crown of Abies mariesii in a snowy sub-alpine thicket. The Second Scientific Congress of East Asian Federation of Ecological Societies. Poster Award. Toki Messe, Niigata, Japan.
Research interests
  • Forest community and population dynamics focusing on the non-equilibrium state in old-growth subalpine forest ecosystems
  • Relationships between climate change and forest ecosystems, especially focusing on effects of snow regime fluctuations on subalpine vegetation dynamics
  • Growth strategy of subalpine conifers, including their morphological and physiological responses to changes in the environment.
  • Conservation and management of forest ecosystems and landscapes shaped by natural disturbance regimes.
  • Forest dynamics and disturbances, including from the minimum-scale canopy dynamics to the catastrophic large-scale disturbances, and disturbance legacy to maintain the integrity of forest ecosystems and landscapes.
  • Ecosystem development in a deglaciated foreland in high arctic.
  • Ecology of endophytic and epiphytic phyllosphere fungi on forest tree species.
Refereed publications
  • Akira Mori, Yoshihiko Higuchi, Hiroshi Takeda (2000). Accuracy and efficiency of DGPS inside the forest- The effects of tree stem and crown on accuracy of positioning-. Applied Forest Science 9: 13-18. (in Japanese with English summary)
  • Akira Mori, Hiroshi Takeda (2000). The effects of released S/A on accuracy of DGPS surveying inside the forest. Journal of the Japanese Forestry Society 82: 388-392. (in Japanese with English summary)
  • Akira Mori (2001). Investment of photosynthate at seed production in Quercus gilva Bl.. Journal of the Japanese Forestry Society 83: 93-100. (in Japanese with English summary)
  • Akira Mori, Hiroshi Takeda (2003). Architecture and neighborhood competition of understorey saplings in a subalpine forest in central Japan. Šcoscience 10: 217-224.
  • Akira Mori, Hiroshi Takeda (2003). Light-related competitive effects of overstory trees on the understory conifer saplings in a subalpine forest. Journal of Forest Research 8: 163-169.
  • Takashi Osono, Akira Mori. (2003). Colonization of Japanese beech leaves by phyllosphere fungi. Mycoscience 44: 427-441.
  • Akira Mori, Hiroshi Takeda (2004). Effects of mixedwood canopies on conifer advance regeneration in a subalpine old-growth forest in central Japan. Šcoscience 11: 36-44.
  • Akira Mori, Hiroshi Takeda. (2004). Functional relationships between crown morphology and within-crown characteristics of understory saplings of three codominant conifers in a subalpine forest in central Japan. Tree Physiology 24: 661-670.
  • Takashi Osono, Akira Mori. (2004). Distribution of phyllosphere fungi within the canopy of Swida controversa. Mycoscience 45: 161-168.
  • Akira Mori, Eri Mizumachi, Takashi Osono, Yusuke Doi. (2004). Substrate-associated seedling recruiment and establishment of major conifer species in an old-growth subalpine forest in central Japan. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 287-297.
  • Akira Mori, Hiroshi Takeda. (2004). Effects of undisturbed canopy structure on population structure and species coexistence in an old-growth subalpine forest in central Japan. Forest Ecology and Management 200: 89-100.
  • Takashi Osono, Akira Mori. & Kanade Koide. (2004) Defoliation of Giant dogwood (Swida controversa) caused by zonate leaf blight. Applied Forest Science13: 161-164. (in Japanese with English summary)
  • Noriyuki Osada, Ryunosuke Tateno, Akira Mori, Hiroshi Takeda. (2004). Changes in crown development patterns and current-year shoot structure with light environments and tree height in Fagus crenata (Fagaceae). American Journal of Botany 91: 1981-1989.
  • Akira Mori, Hiroshi Takeda. (2005). Changes in shoot properties in relation to vertical positions within the crown of mature canopy trees of Abies mariesii and Abies veitchii. Journal of Forest Research 10: 51-55.
  • Akira Mori, Eri Mizumachi. (2005). Season and substrate effects on the first-year establishment of current-year seedlings of major conifer species in an old-growth subalpine forest in central Japan. Forest Ecology and Management 210: 461-467.
  • Takashi Osono, Akira Mori. (2005). Seasonal and leaf age-dependent changes in occurrence of phyllosphere fungi of giant dogwood. Mycoscience 46: 273-279.
  • Akira Mori, Takashi Osono, Shogo Iwasaki, Masaki Uchida, Hiroshi Kanda. (2006). Topographical variation in initial recruitment and establishment of vascular plants and microhabitat conditions along a slope of the recently-deglaciated moraine in Ellesmere Island, high arctic Canada. Polar Bioscience 19: 85-95.
  • Eri Mizumachi, Akira Mori, Naoya Osawa, Reiko Akiyama, Naoko Tokuchi. (2006). Shoot development and extension of Quercus serrata saplings in responses to insect damages and nutrient conditions. Annals of Botany 98?219-226.
  • Takashi Osono, Akira Mori, Masaki Uchida, Hiroshi Kanda. (2006). Chemical property of live and dead leaves of 14 plant species in a deglaciated polar oasis in Oobloyah Valley, Ellesmere Island, high arctic Canada. Environmental Research in the Arctic 2005. Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue 59: 144-155.
  • Akira Mori, Shigeaki F. Hasegawa. (2007). Structural characteristics of Abies mariesii saplings in a snowy subalpine parkland in central Japan. Tree Physiology 27: 141-148.
  • Akira Mori, Eri Mizumachi, Akira Komiyama (2007). Roles of disturbance and demographic non-equilibrium in species coexistence, inferred from 25-year dynamics of a late-successional old-growth subalpine forest. Forest Ecology and Management ; in press.
Reviews
  • Akira Mori. (2007). Ecosystem-based forest management -Roles of scientific researches on natural disturbance regimes in British Columbia, Canada- Japanese Journal of Conservation Ecology 12: in press (in Japanese with English Summary).