Makoto Kobayashi, PhD
(Assistant Professor)

Teshio Experimental Forest, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere

Hokkaido University, Japan

Email: makoto@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp

Research Summary

My research interests is to understand how plant-soil linkage will be influence by ongoing climate change in cold biomes. I love to know the complicate relationship between plants and related organisms in soil.

Projects

Our Projects

Nutrient availability along two arctic successional gradients

Understanding how plant succession is influenced by climate warming is a key issue for understanding how arctic landscapes will change in the future. At high latitudes, low temperature drives disturbance and the consequent primary succession (e.g., cryoturbation, glacier advance and retreat).