Specialty

1. Environmental changes in Lake Biwa and its watershed over the past 150 years (based on social changes from the late Edo period to the Meiji period)
2. Environmental history of the Great Cormorants and people through the forests based on the nutrient supply by the cormorants
3. Historical relationship between the Great Cormorants and people and modern management of the conflicts between theｍ
4. Behavior and ecology of the Japanese Cormorants bred for cormorant fishing

Keywords of Research

Birds, nutrient transportation, ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, relationship between cormorants and people.

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• Kameda KO (2020) 7.2.4 Population increase of the Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo and measures taken to reduce its damage to the fisheries and forests of Lake Biwa. Kawanabe H, Nishino M, Maehata M (eds). Lake Biwa: Interactions between Nature and People 2: 603-608. Springer.
• Hashimoto H, Sugawa H, Kameda KO (2020) 2.9 Characteristics of avifauna of Lake Biwa and its long-term trends. Kawanabe H, Nishino M, Maehata M (eds). Lake Biwa: Interactions between Nature and People 2: 237-242. Springer.
• Fujii H, Kameda KO, Makino A, Maesako Y (2019) Traditional Custom of the Utilization of Herons and Great Cormorants at Lake Biwa ̶ the Culture of Bird Utilization from the Edo Period to the Present Day. Journal of Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 51: 1-28. (Japanese with English Abstract) https://doi.org/10.3312/jyio.51.1
• Fujita MS and Kameda KO (2016) Nutrient Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling by Birds. Sekercioglu ÇH, Wenny DG, and Whelan CJ (eds). Why Birds Matter: Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services.The University of Chicago Press, pp271-297.
• Mulder CPH, Jones HP, Kameda K, Palmborg C, Schmidt S, Ellis JC, Orrock JL, Wait DA, Wardle DA, Yang L, Young H, Croll DA, and Vidal E (2011) Impacts of Seabirds on Plant and Soil Properties. Mulder CPH, Anderson WB, Towns DR, and Bellingham PJ eds. Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion, and Restoration, Oxford University Press :135-176.

Email: kameda-kayoko△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Biogeochemical processes in Lake Biwa.
2. Quantitative monitoring of submerged macrophytes using a echo-sounding technique in the southern sub-basin of Lake Biwa.

Keywords of Research

Limnology, physical circulation, eutrophication, monitoring.

Email: haga-hiroki△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Vegetation response to glacial-interglacial cycles based on pollen analysis from Lake Biwa sediments.
2. The history of vegetation changes and forest fires through pollen and charcoal analyses.
3. Past changes during the last 100 years in the floral landscape and the dispersal of pollen.

Keywords of Research

Paleo-ecology, vegetation change, climate change, pollen analysis, Lake Biwa sediments.

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• Hayashi, R., Inoue, J., Makino, M., Takahara, H. (2012) Vegetation history during the last 17,000 years around Sonenuma Swamp in the eastern shore area of Lake Biwa, western Japan: with special reference to changes in species composition of Quercus subgenus Lepidobalanus trees based on SEM pollen morphology. Quaternary International 254, 99-106.
• Hayashi, R., Takahara, H., Hayashida, A., Takemura, K. (2010) Millennial-scale vegetation changes during the last 40,000 years based on a pollen record from Lake Biwa, Japan. Quaternary Research 74, 91-99.
• Hayashi, R., Takahara, H., Yoshikawa, S., Inouchi, Y. (2010) Orbital-scale variability of vegetation during MIS 6, 5, 4, and 3 based on a pollen record from the Takashima-oki core in Lake Biwa, western Japan. Japanese Journal of Palynology 56, 5-12.
• Hayashi, R., Takahara, H., Tanida, K., Danhara, T. (2009) Vegetation response to East Asian monsoon fluctuations from the penultimate to last glacial period based on a terrestrial pollen record from the inland Kamiyoshi Basin, western Japan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 284, 246-256.

Email: hayashi-ryoma△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Pliocene-Pleistocene five million year history of volcanic eruptions based on volcanic ash.
2. Japan's Pliocene-Pleistocene tephrostratigraphy and establishment of age.
3. Palaeoenvironmental changes of the Lake Biwa region.

Keywords of Research

Tephra, volcanic ash stratigraphy, Pliocene-Pleistocene, explosive volcanic eruption activity, palaeoenvironments.

Email: satoguchi-yasufumi△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Palaeoclimate and floral changes during the Pliocene.
2. Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Pliocene using fossil flora.

Keywords of Research

Fossil plants, fossil forests, paleobotany, paleoenvironmental reconstruction.

Email: yamakawa-chiyomi△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Environmental sociology research into the relationships between nature and humans.
2. Water facilities of lakeshore areas.
3. Utilization of nature and environmental preservation of lakeshores.

Keywords of Research

Lakes, environmental preservation, nature utilization, regionalization

Email: you-hei△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Development of the Yayoi culture in western Japan.
2. Development of the relationships between lake environments and farming communities.
3. Lake transportation and group relationships during the Jomon and Yayoi periods.

Keywords of Research

Jomon, Yayoi, earthenware, styles, western Japan, Hokuriku region.

Email: senoo-yusuke△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Transformation of lifestyles in rural communities.
2. Use and maintenance of traditional landraces.

Keywords of Research

Villages, depopulation, commons, communities, traditional landraces.

Email: okubo-mika△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Origin and history of Lake Biwa fishes based on molecular phylogenetic and population genetic analyses.
2. Natural selection in the mitochondrial genome of Lake Biwa fishes and adaptation to the lake environment.

Keywords of Research

Freshwater fish, evolution, genetic analysis, multi-species comparisons, mitochondrial genome

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• Tabata, R., Kakioka, R., Tominaga, K., Komiya, T. & Watanabe, K. (2016) Phylogeny and historical demography of endemic fishes in Lake Biwa: the ancient lake as a promoter of evolution and diversification of freshwater fishes in western Japan. Evolution and Ecology 6: 2601-2623.
• Tabata, R. & Watanabe, K. (2013) Hidden mitochondrial DNA divergence in the Lake Biwa endemic goby Gymnogobius isaza: implications for its evolutionary history. Environmental Biology of Fishes 96: 701-712.

Email: tabata-ryoichi△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Folklore in the living world of wetlands and lakes.
2. Relationship between folklore and autonomy in the living world.
3. Memory and experience related to objects.

Keywords of Research

Tradition, autonomy, co-ownership, the living world

Email: kato-hideo△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. History of maps with a focus on the early modern period of Japan.
2. Landscape history of river basins, based on ideology and practice of flood control in civil engineering.
3. History of the natural environment and regional images expressed in the media.

Keywords of Research

Spatial representation, geographical knowledge, landscape transition, river management, publishing culture.

Email: shimamoto-kazuyuki△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Changes in the terrestrial mammalian fauna of Japan, especially around Lake Biwa.
2. Taxonomy and phylogeny of African terrestrial mammals.
3. Asian mammalian fossil fauna and paleobiogeographic changes.

Keywords of Research

Vertebrate palaeontology, mammals, fossils.

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• Handa, N., Izuho, M., Takahashi,K. Iizuka, F., Tsogtbaatar, B., Gunchinsuren, B., Odouren, D., and Ishitseren, L. (2022) The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) from Ondorkhaan, eastern Mongolia. Boreas, 51 (3), 584-605.
• Handa, N. and Tsubamoto, T . (2021) Reappraisal of a supposed chalicotheriid perissodactyl femur from the Pliocene of Yenangyoung, central Myanmar. Journal of Fossil Research, 54 (1), 11-14.
• Handa, N., Nakatsukasa, M., Kunimatsu, Y., Tsubamoto T. and Nakaya, H. (2021) The Chalicotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the upper Miocene Nakali Formation, Kenya. Historical Biology, 33 (12), 3522-3529.
• Handa, N. (2020) Reappraisal of a rhinocerotid (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the lower Miocene Yotsuyaku Formation, Northeast Japan, with an overview of the early Miocene Japanese rhinocerotids. Paleontological Research, 23, 183-191.
• Handa, N. and Kato, T. (2020) A Pliocene rhinocerotid (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Ajimu, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, with comments on the Japanese Pliocene rhinocerotid fossil records. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 94 (4), 759-768.
• Handa, N., Nishioka, Y., Duangkrayom, J., Jintasakul, P. (2020) Brachypotherium perimense (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the Miocene of Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeastern Thailand, with comments on fossil records of Brachypotherium . Historical Biology, 33 (9), 1642-1660.

Email: handa-naoto△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Phylogenetic systematics of the Japanese flies.
2. Classification of Shiga Prefecture's aquatic insects.
3. The evolution of flies.

Keywords of Research

Aquatic insects, taxonomy, systematics, evolution, biogeography, DNA

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• K. Masunaga, T. Saigusa & P. Grootaert. (2005) Revision of the genus Thambemyia Oldroyd (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with description of a new subgenus. Entomological Science. 8(4) : 439-455.
• K. Masunaga, T. Saigusa & D. Yang (2005) Taxonomy of the genus Acymatopus Takagi (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Entomological Science. 8(3) : 301-311.

Email: masunaga-kazuhiro△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Development and phylogeny of ostracods (Crustacea).
2. Taxonomy of Asian lacustrine ostracods.
3. Taxonomy and ecology of rice field ostracods.

Keywords of Research

Ostracoda, taxonomy, ecology, phylogeny, evolution.

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• Smith, R. J., Zhai, D., Savatenalinton, S., Kamiya, T. & Yu, N. 2018. A review of rice field ostracods (Crustacea) with a checklist of species. Journal of Limnology, 77, 1-16.
• Smith, R. J., Zhai, D. & Chang, C. Y. 2019. Ilyocypris (Crustacea: Ostracoda) species in North East Asian rice fields; description of one new species, and redescriptions of Ilyocypris dentifera Sars, 1903 and Ilyocypris japonica Okubo, 1990. Zootaxa, 4652, 56-92.
• Smith, R. J. & Chang, C. Y. 2020. Taxonomic assessments of some Cyprinotinae Bronstein, 1947 species (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Japanese and Korean rice fields, including (re-) descriptions of six species and a review of the type species of the subfamily. Zootaxa, 4795, 1-69.

Email: robin-james-smith△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Biogeography of shoreline plants.
2. Conservation of beach plants growing around Lake Biwa.
3. Research on vegetation in Shiga Prefecture.

Keywords of Research

Shore plants, biological geography, conservation biology, evolutionary ecology

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• Tamaki, I., Mizuno, M., Ohtsuki, T. , Shutoh, K., Tabata, R., Tsunamoto, Y., ... & Harada, E. 2023. Phylogenetic, population structure, and population demographic analyzes reveal that Vicia sepium in Japan is native and not introduced. Scientific Reports, 13 (1), 20746. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48079-4.
• Ohtsuki, T. , Ikeda, H. & Setoguchi, H. 2013. Recent colonization of a coastal plant into inland populations at an ancient freshwater lake, Lake Biwa multilocussequencing and a demographic history of Lathyrus japonicus (Fabaceae). Ecology and Evolution, 3, 654 (1-12). DOI: 10.1002/ece3.654.
• Ohtsuki, T., Kaneko, Y. & Setoguchi, H. 2011. Isolated history of the coastal plant Lathyrus japonicus (Leguminosae) in Lake Biwa, an ancient freshwater lake. AoB Plants. DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plr021.

Email: ohtsuki-tatsuo△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. River environments
2. Sediment management methods in rivers.

Keywords of Research

River environments, natural river creation, sediment management.

Email: hamaguchi-takahito△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Taxonomy of plankton.
2. Benthic microorganisms, especially gastrotrich ecology, taxonomy and phylogeny.
3. Microorganisms in rice fields.

Keywords of Research

Rice fields, microorganisms, benthos, plankton, gastrotrichs.

Email: suzuki-takahito△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Elucidation of the origin of Lake Biwa and Yodogawa fish based on anatomical traits
2. Systematic study of Cyprinidae
3. Research on conservation and phylogenetic conservation of endangered freshwater fish
4. Specimen-based restoration of past fish faunas

Keywords of Research

East Asia, Lake Biwa / Yodo River system, Cyprinidae, systematic classification, biodiversity conservation

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• Tominaga, K. & Kawase, S. (2019) Two new species of Pseudogobio pike gudgeon (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae: Gobioninae) from Japan, and redescription of P.esocinus (Temminck and Schlegel 1846). Ichthyological Research 66, 488-508.
• Kawase, S. & Hosoya, K. (2015) Pseudorasbora pugnax, a new species of minnow from Japan, and redescription of P.pumila (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 25, 289-298.

Email: kawase-seigo△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Regional cooperation in rural areas.
2. Rural planning.

Keywords of Research

Rural environment, farming landscapes, rural area revitalization.

Email: nishikawa-marina△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Examination of measures against blue-green algae using bivalves of the mussel family.
2. Evaluation of food utilization in mussel bivalves using stable isotope ratio and fatty acid analyses.
3. Establishment of a distribution survey method of mussels using environmental DNA.

Keywords of Research

Freshwater bivalves, blue-green algae, fatty acids, stable isotope ratios, environmental DNA.

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• Sugawara, K., Sasaki, Y., Okano, K., Watanabe, M., & Miyata, N. (2022) Application of eDNA for monitoring freshwater bivalve Nodularia nipponensis and its glochidium larvae. Environmental DNA, 4(4), 908-919.
• Sugawara, K., Fujibayashi, M., Okano, K., Enda, Y., Ichinoseki, S., Taniguchi, Y., & Miyata, N. (2021) Assimilation of cyanobacteria by the freshwater bivalve Nodularia douglasiae: Insights from long-term laboratory and field feeding experiments. Journal of Water and Environment Technology, 19 (2), 74-84.

Email: sugawara-kotaro△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Pattern analysis of diatom communities using multivariate analysis techniques.
2. Diatom taxonomy.
3. Development of quantitative analytical techniques for taxonomy.

Keywords of Research

Diatoms, multivariate analysis, rice-fields, rivers

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

• Ohtsuka, T., Kudoh, S., Imura, S. & Ohtani, S. (2006) Diatoms composing benthic microbial mats in freshwater lakes of Skarvsnes ice-free area, East Antarctica. Polar Bioscience 20: 113-130.
  

Email: ohtsuka-taisuke△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Ecology and conservation of fish that use rice fields.
2. The distribution patterns of fish and bivalves in Shiga Prefecture.
3. Habitats of rare freshwater fish and bivalve species, and the links to conservation activities.
4. Wildlife conservation and environmental education that utilize the museum.

Keywords of Research

Paddy fields, shore network, conservation, fish, and freshwater bivalves.

Email: kanao-shigefumi△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Aquatic plant ecology.
2. Museum Studies.

Keywords of Research

Bladderwort, spiny naiad, exhibition, users.

Email: ashiya-minako△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. School cooperation

Keywords of Research

Erudition collaboration, science education, experiential learning, improving the qualifications of teachers.

Email: kuwahara-koichi△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Museum regional cooperation through participation type of investigation using the biota of tall grasslands (kayahara) as a theme.
2. Determining the current state of interaction between grasslands and human activities through the distribution of harvest mice.
3. The current conditions and conservation of mammals on the Karasuma Peninsula and in the Prefecture - environmental education activities.

Keywords of Research

Museology, regional cooperation, mammals, tall grasslands (kayahara), conservation, environmental education.

Email: nakamura-kumiko△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Physiological and ecological studies on captive Baikal seals.
2. Breeding physiology in pinnipeds.
3. Disease and treatment of aquatic mammals.

Keywords of Research

Museum studies, aquatic mammals, ecology, disease.

Email: matsuoka-yuko△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. School cooperation

Keywords of Research

Erudition collaboration, experiential learning, science education, improving the qualifications of teachers.

Email: watanabe-toshihiro△biwahaku.jp
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Specialty

1. Diversity and evolution of herbivorous insects, mainly weevils.
2. Diets of weevils.
3. The insect fauna of Shiga Prefecture and its origin.

Keywords of Research

Weevils, taxonomy, phylogeny, evolution, diet.

Email: imada-shunsuke△biwahaku.jp
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