Kitajima Kaoru

キタジマカオル | Kitajima Kaoru

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor
Other affiliations (2)：

Research field (1)： Forest science

Research keywords (4)： ecosystem ecology , Climate change , Plant physiological ecology , Forest ecology

Research theme for competitive and other funds (8)：

2022 - 2026 Drought adaptation of tropical trees understood from the unique adaptive trait syndromes in Madagascar
2021 - 2026 森林機能の最大化のためのゲノム・形質・生態の革新的な統合アプローチ
2022 - 2025 マダガスカル熱帯乾燥林の生態系サービス:多様な知識体系を活かす保全管理の検討
2018 - 2023 Improved understanding of forest ecology in Madagascar through integrative analysis of seed dispersal by endemic animals and seedling establishment
2017 - 2021 Gene regulatory network underlying the diversity of reproductive traits in Fagaceae

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Papers (105)：

Kyaw Kyaw Htoo, Masanori Onishi, Md Farhadur Rahman, Kaoru Kitajima, Yusuke Onoda. The space occupation and use by tree crowns explain variations of individual growth rates in an old-growth temperate forest in Japan. Forest Ecology and Management. 2024. 569
YUTARO FUJIMOTO, SHUICHIRO TAGANE, HARISON RABARISON, ROVA N. ANDRIAMAHASETRA, NATSUKI KOMADA, KAORU KITAJIMA. Impatiens alboarenicola, a new species of Balsaminaceae from north-western Madagascar. Phytotaxa. 2024. 650. 3. 206-212
Yutaro Fujimoto, Takayuki Kaneko, Hiroki Sato, Ando Harilalao Rakotomamonjy, Zo Lalaina Razafiarison, Kaoru Kitajima. Topographical gradient of the structure and diversity of a woody plant community in a seasonally dry tropical forest in northwestern Madagascar. Ecological Research. 2024
Joseph Emile Honour Percival, Hiroki Sato, Tojotanjona Patrick Razanaparany, Ando Harilalao Rakotomamonjy, Zo Lalaina Razafiarison, Kaoru Kitajima. Non fire-adapted dry forest of Northwestern Madagascar: Escalating and devastating trends revealed by Landsat timeseries and GEDI lidar data. PLOS ONE. 2024. 19. 2. e0290203-e0290203
Hirofumi Kajino, Kaoru Kitajima. Lamina-specific localization of silicon accumulation in two broadleaf tree species. Journal of Plant Research. 2023. 136. 5. 659-663

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MISC (3)：

Onoda Yusuke, Westoby Mark, Adler Peter B., Diaz Sandra, Dominy Nathaniel J., Elgart Alison, Enrico Lucas, Fine Paul V. A., Howard Jerome J., Jalili Adel, et al. Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties. Ecology Letters. 2011. 14. 3. 301-312
VJ Terwilliger, K Kitajima, DJ Le Roux-Swarthout, S Mulkey, SJ Wright. Influences of heterotrophic and autotrophic resource use on carbon and hydrogen isotopic compositions of tropical tree leaves (vol 37, pg 133, 2001). ISOTOPES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH STUDIES. 2002. 38. 1
K KITAJIMA, KP HOGAN. NITROGEN LIMITATION INCREASES CHLOROPHYLL A/B RATIOS OF SEEDLING LEAVES WITHOUT IMPAIRING QUANTUM EFFICIENCY. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 1993. 102. 1. 136-136

Books (11)：

生物学者地球を行く
文一総合出版 2018
Tropical Tree Physiology: Adaptations and Responses in a Changing Environment
Springer 2016
Seedling Ecology and Evolution.
Cambridge University Press 2008
Tropical Forest Community Ecology
Blackwell Science 2008
Handbook of Functional Plant Ecology, 2nd Ed.
Marcel Dekker 2007

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Lectures and oral presentations (26)：

Interspecific variations of seed size and seed nitrogen concenttration among tropical forest tree species.
(28th Annual meeting of the Japan Society of Tropiacl Ecology 2018)
Ecological trade-offs in the life history of trees and other plants
(2018)
Advances in Ecology with Functional Traits
(The 65th Annual Meeting o the Ecological Society of Japan 2018)
Functional traits and seedling regeneration of tropical forest rees
(Kyoto University - Kasetsart University Symposium 2017)
Growth-survival trade-offs among tropical tree species
(Special Lecture Gadja Madah University 2017)

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Education (1)：

1984 - 1992 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Department of Plant Biology MS and PhD

Professional career (1)：

Work history (2)：

2013/08 - 現在 Kyoto University Graduate School of Agriculture Professor
1997/08 - 2014/07 University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Science Assistant/Associate/Full Professor

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