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    Associate Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
    community.ecologist at gmail dot com

Welcome to my research website. I am a community ecologist studying changes in biodiversity across space and time. I work on developing new quantitative methods to disentangle the complexities underlying ecological community structure and ecosystem functioning. I am also interested in applying ecological theory to ecosystem management under global change.
I co-run the Laboratory of Forest Ecology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, with Prof. Yusuke Onoda. I serve as an associate editor for Journal of Ecology, Ecological Solutions and Evidence, and Journal of Forest Research.

         

Publications

Preprints

  • Daido Y, Konrai K, Onoda Y, Tatsumi S (2026) Thermophilization, climatic debt, and consequent declines in primary productivity. bioRxiv 10.64898/2026.04.28.721369.

  • Tatsumi S, Punwasi N, Roberto A, Cadotte MW (2023) Response diversity is key to buffer ecosystem productivity against multiple environmental change drivers. bioRxiv 10.1101/2023.08.20.554000.

Peer-reviewed Articles

 2026

  • Ma W, Hu J, Luo W, Lü X, Liang X, Zhang B, Yu Q, Han X, Tatsumi S, Wang Z, Hautier Y (2026) Demographic and growth dynamics jointly shape grassland productivity under extreme drought. Global Change Biology 32(7): e71016.

  • Yao J, Li X, Tatsumi S, Ding Y, Huang J, Xu Y, Zhang Z, Long W, Zang R (2026) Scale dependence of woody plant β-diversity in a tropical rainforest metacommunity. Ecology and Evolution 16(7): e74022.

 2025

  • Iritani R, Ontiveros VJ, Alonso D, Capitán JA, Godsoe W, Tatsumi S (2025) Jaccard dissimilarity in stochastic community models based on the species-independence assumption. Ecography 2025(8): e07737.

  • Hrdina M, Molina-Valero JA, Kuželka K, Tatsumi S, Yamaguchi K, Melichová Z, Mokroš M, Surový P (2025) Obtaining the highest quality from a low-cost mobile scanner: a comparison of several pipelines with a new scanning device. Remote Sensing 17(15): 2564.

  • Cadotte MW, Tatsumi S (2025) Uncovering the mechanisms underpinning divergent environmental change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Ecology 106(2): e70040.

  • Oikawa N, Nakagawa Y, Owari T, Tatsumi S, Suzuki SN (2025) Utilising LiDAR-equipped iPhone in forestry: constructing 3D models and measuring tree sizes in a planting site. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 6(1): e12399.

 2024

  • Barrilli GHC, Tatsumi S, De Biasi JB, Cruz ARS, de Oliveira TCT, Hostim-Silva M, Hackradt C, Félix-Hackradt FCF (2024) Simplified fish larval supply in coastal areas after a dam burst in Brazil. Marine Pollution Bulletin 205: 116615.

  • Naka M, Masumoto S, Nishizawa K, Matsuoka S, Tatsumi S, Kobayashi Y, Suzuki KF, Xu X, Kawakami T, Katayama N, Makoto K, Okada K, Uchida M, Takagi K, Mori AS (2024) Long-term consequences on soil fungal community structure: monoculture planting and natural regeneration. Environmental Management 73(4): 777–787.

 2023

  • Tatsumi S, Loreau M (2023) Partitioning the biodiversity effects on productivity into density and size components. Ecology Letters 26(11): 1963–1973.

  • Tatsumi S, Yamaguchi K, Furuya N (2023) ForestScanner: a mobile application for measuring and mapping trees with LiDAR-equipped iPhone and iPad. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(7): 1603–1609.

  • Tatsumi S, Ohgue T, Azuma WA, Nishizawa K (2023) Bark traits affect epiphytic bryophyte community assembly in a temperate forest. Plant Ecology 224(12): 1089–1095.

 2022

  • Tatsumi S, Iritani R, Cadotte MW (2022) Partitioning the temporal changes in abundance-based beta diversity into loss and gain components. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13(9): 2042–2048.

 2021

  • Tatsumi S, Iritani R, Cadotte MW (2021) Temporal changes in spatial variation: partitioning the extinction and colonisation components of beta diversity. Ecology Letters 24(5): 1063–1072.

  • Tatsumi S, Matsuoka S, Fujii S, Makoto K, Osono T, Isbell F, Mori AS (2021) Prolonged impacts of past agriculture and ungulate overabundance on soil fungal communities in restored forests. Environmental DNA 3(5): 930–939.

  • Suzuki KF, Kobayashi Y, Seidl R, Senf C, Tatsumi S, Koide D, Azuma WA, Higa M, Koyanagi TF, Qian S, Kusano Y, Matsubayashi R, Mori AS (2021) The potential role of an alien tree species in supporting forest restoration: lessons from Shiretoko National Park, Japan. Forest Ecology and Management 493: 119253.

  • Sookhan N, Lorenzo A, Tatsumi S, Yuen M, MacIvor JS (2021) Linking bacterial diversity to floral identity in the bumble bee pollen basket. Environmental DNA 3(3): 669–680.

 2020

  • Tatsumi S, Strengbom J, Čugunovs M, Kouki J (2020) Partitioning the colonization and extinction components of beta diversity across disturbance gradients. Ecology 101(12): e03183.

  • Tatsumi S (2020) Tree diversity effects on forest productivity increase through time because of spatial partitioning. Forest Ecosystems 7: 24.

  • Malloch B, Tatsumi S, Seibold S, Cadotte MW, MacIvor JS (2020) Urbanization and plant invasion alter the structure of litter microarthropod communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 89(11): 2496–2507.

 2019

  • Tatsumi S, Cadotte MW, Mori AS (2019) Individual-based models of community assembly: neighborhood competition drives phylogenetic community structure. Journal of Ecology 107(2): 735–746.

  • Cadotte MW, Carboni M, Si X, Tatsumi S (2019) Do traits and phylogeny support congruent community diversity patterns and assembly inferences? Journal of Ecology 107(5): 2065–2077.

 2018

  • Pasanen H, Junninen K, Boberg J, Tatsumi S, Stenlid J, Kouki J (2018) Life after tree death: does restored dead wood host different fungal communities to natural woody substrates? Forest Ecology and Management 409: 863–871.

 2017

  • Tatsumi S, Ohgue T, Azuma A, Tuovinen V, Imada Y, Mori AS, Thor G, Ranlund Å (2017) Tree hollows can affect epiphyte species composition. Ecological Research 32(4): 503–509.

  • Mori AS, Tatsumi S, Gustafsson L (2017) Landscape properties affect biodiversity response to retention approaches in forestry. Journal of Applied Ecology 54(6): 1627–1637.

 2016

  • Tatsumi S, Owari T, Mori AS (2016) Estimating competition coefficients in tree communities: a hierarchical Bayesian approach to neighborhood analysis. Ecosphere 7(3): e01273.

  • Nishizawa K, Tatsumi S, Kitagawa R, Mori AS (2016) Deer herbivory affects the functional diversity of forest floor plants via changes in competition-mediated assembly rules. Ecological Research 31(4): 569–578.

  • Owari T, Okamura K, Fukushi K, Kasahara H, Tatsumi S (2016) Single-tree management for high-value timber species in a cool-temperate mixed forest in northern Japan. IJBSESM 12(1–2): 74–82.

 2015

  • Mori AS, Qian S, Tatsumi S (2015) Academic inequality through the lens of community ecology: a meta-analysis. PeerJ 3: e1457.

  • Owari T, Tatsumi S, Ning L, Yin M (2015) Height growth of Korean pine seedlings planted under strip-cut larch plantations in northeast China. International Journal of Forestry Research: Art 178681.

 2014

  • Tatsumi S, Owari T, Yin M, Ning L (2014) Neighborhood analysis of underplanted Korean pine demography in larch plantations: implications for uneven-aged management in northeast China. Forest Ecology and Management 322: 10–18.

  • Tatsumi S, Owari T, Kasahara H, Nakagawa Y (2014) Individual-level analysis of damage to residual trees after single-tree selection harvesting in northern Japanese mixedwood stands. Journal of Forest Research 19(4): 369–378.

 2013

  • Tatsumi S, Owari T (2013) Modeling the effects of individual-tree size, distance, and species on understory vegetation based on neighborhood analysis. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 43(11): 1006–1014.

 2010

  • Suzuki S, Tatsumi S, Ueno Y (2010) Multiple-criteria decision-support system for optimising spatial distribution in a forest classification process. Journal of Forest Planning 16(1): 17–26.

CV

Research Positions
  • 2024–present: Associate Professor, Kyoto University (Laboratory of Forest Ecology)
  • 2020–2024: Senior Researcher, Hokkaido Research Center, FFPRI
  • 2019–2021: JSPS Overseas Research Fellow, University of Toronto (Marc Cadotte lab)
  • 2018–2020: Researcher, Hokkaido Research Center, FFPRI
  • 2017–2018: Visiting Researcher, University of Toronto (Marc Cadotte lab)
  • 2016: Visiting Researcher, University of Eastern Finland (Jari Kouki lab)
  • 2015–2018: JSPS Research Fellow PD, Yokohama National University (Akira Mori lab)
  • 2014–2015: Technical Assistant, Yokohama National University
  • 2012–2014: JSPS Research Fellow DC2, University of Tokyo (University of Tokyo Forests)
Education
  • 2011–2014: PhD, University of Tokyo
  • 2009–2011: MSc, University of Tokyo
  • 2005–2009: BSc, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Grants and Fellowships
  • 2026–2029: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) (Tatsumi S & Onoda Y)
  • 2025–2029: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Tatsumi S, Imai N & Aoyagi R)
  • 2025–2028: UTokyo SMBC Forest GX Project (Owari T, Tatsumi S, et al.)
  • 2024–2026: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) (Publicly Offered Research) (Tatsumi S)
  • 2022–2024: Commissioned Research, Forestry Agency (Hosoda K, Tatsumi S, et al.)
  • 2021–2025: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Tatsumi S)
  • 2021–2022: Funded Research, the Smart Forestry EZO Model (Furuya N & Tatsumi S)
  • 2019–2021: JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship (Tatsumi S)
  • 2018–2021: Swedish Research Council Grant (Low M, Gårdmark A, Ecke F & Tatsumi S)
  • 2016–2019: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists B (Tatsumi S)
  • 2016–2017: Pro Natura Fund Grant (Mori A, Tatsumi S & Nishizawa K)
  • 2016–2016: Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation Grant (Tatsumi S & Gustafsson L)
  • 2015–2018: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Tatsumi S)
  • 2014–2015: KWEF Research Grant (Owari T & Tatsumi S)
  • 2012–2014: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Tatsumi S)
  • 2012–2013: AGS Research Grant (Owari T, Tatsumi S & Yin M)
  • 2011–2012: Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant (Tatsumi S)
Awards
  • 2025: Japan Agriculture Progress Award, Agricultural Society of Japan
  • 2020: Postdoc Paper of the Year 2019, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
  • 2018: Best English Presentation Award, Ecological Society of Japan
  • 2018: Ecological Research Paper Award 2017, Ecological Society of Japan
  • 2016: Kuroiwa Prize, Japan Society of Forest Planning
  • 2014: Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence (Ph.D.), Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • 2014: Excellent Poster Award, Ecological Society of Japan
  • 2014: Incentive Award for Young Researchers, ESJ Hokkaido Branch
  • 2013: Student Poster Award, Japan Forest Society
  • 2012: Student Poster Award, Japan Forest Society
  • 2012: Sasakawa Scientific Research Award, Japan Science Society
Academic Services
  • 2025–present: Special Investigator, Science and Technology Foresight Center, NISTEP
  • 2025–present: Conference Program Committee (Plant Ecology Division), Japanese Forest Society
  • 2025–2026: Finance Assistant, ESJ73 Conference Executive Committee, Ecological Society of Japan
  • 2023–present: Associate Editor, Journal of Ecology
  • 2023–2024: Representative Director of Hokkaido Region, Japan Society of Forest Planning
  • 2022–present: Editorial Board, Journal of Forest Research
  • 2020–present: Associate Editor, Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • 2020–2023: Committee Member, English Session, Ecological Society of Japan
  • 2011–2012: Committee Member, Master-Theses Conference, ESJ Kanto
Manuscript Review

  • Annals of Forest Science, Biological Conservation, Biological Invasions, Biological Reviews, Canadian Journal of Forest Research (2), Conservation Science and Practice (4), Diversity and Distributions, Ecography (3), Ecological Processes, Ecological Research (4), Ecology (4), Ecology and Evolution, Ecology Letters (5), Ecosphere, Forest Ecology and Management (4), Forestry Chronicle, Forests (4), Frontiers in Plant Science, Functional Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology (3), Journal of Biogeography (2), Journal of Ecology, Journal of Forest Research (2), Journal of Mountain Science, Journal of Plant Research (2), Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Journal of Vegetation Science (5), Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Nature Climate Change, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Oecologia (3), Plos One, Population Ecology, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, Scientific Data, Scientific Reports (2), Swiss National Science Foundation, Trees Structure and Function, 森林計画学会誌 (3), 北方森林研究

  • Review-publication ratio: 5.64 (= 79 manuscripts reviewed / 14 first-author papers)