Ecological Research

• ONLINE SUBMISSION

  Submit your article

  Instruction for author

  Checklist for resubmission

  Figure Guide

  ESM Guide (pdf)

• STATISTICS

  Vol. 31 (2016)
  Submitted: 469
  Accepted: 98

  

  Current issue
  (vol. 32, issue 4)
  Days for acceptance:
  147 (50–320)
  Days for online-first:
  161 (58–335)
  Days for publication:
  208 (109–397)
  

SPECIAL VIRTUAL ISSUE

• Long-term and multidisciplinary research of the forest carbon cycle at the Takayama site, Japan

• Joint contents from the "Journal of Plant Research" and "Ecological Research"
• Edited by Hiroyuki Muraoka
• Forest ecosystems cover approximately 30% of the terrestrial area of the Earth and are expected to play crucial roles in regulating our environments, as in atmospheric CO2 concentration. This special virtual issue introduces long-term and multidisciplinary challenges to understand the mechanisms of and to predict the future changes of the forest carbon cycle at the Takayama site, which was established in 1993 on a mountainous region in central Japan. The articles include research on (1) the detailed ecological processes in the forest carbon cycle, (2) their interactions with the climate, (3) integrated analysis of ecological and meteorological processes in CO2 dynamics, and (4) cross-scale observations and analysis over space and time by the approaches of ecology, micrometeorology, soil biogeochemistry, ecosystem modeling, and remote sensing.
  see EDITORIAL

• Articles from Ecological Research

From "Special issue for the 20th anniversary of the Takayama site"
Ito A, Saitoh TM, Sasai T (2014)
Synergies between observational and modeling studies at the Takayama site: toward a better understanding of processes in terrestrial ecosystems.
Ruidisch M, Nguyen TT, Li Y Geyer R, Tenhunen J (2014)
Estimation of annual spatial variations in forest production and crop yields at landscape scale in temperate climate regions.
Noda HM, Muraoka H, Nasahara KM, Saigusa N, Murayama S, Koizumi H (2014)
Phenology of leaf morphological, photosynthetic, and nitrogen use characteristics of canopy trees in a cool-temperate deciduous broadleaf forest at Ta-kayama, central Japan.
Nasahara KN, Nagai S (2015)
Review: Development of an in situ observation network for terrestrial ecological remote sensing: the Phenological Eyes Network (PEN).
Saitoh TM, Nagai S, Yoshino J, Kondo H, Tamagawa I, Muraoka H (2015)
Effects of canopy phenology on deciduous overstory and evergreen understory carbon budgets in a cool-temperate forest ecosystem under ongoing climate change.
Ishidoya S, Murayama S, Kondo H, Saigusa N, Kishimoto-Mo AW, Yamamoto S (2015)
Observation of O2:CO2 exchange ratio for net turbulent fluxes and its application to forest carbon cycles.
Matsushita K, Tomotsune M, Sakamaki Y, Koizumi H (2015)
Effects of management treatments on the carbon cycle of a cool-temperate broad-leaved deciduous forest and its poten-tial as a bioenergy source.

• Articles from Journal of Plant Research

From "Current Topics in Plant Research"
Muraoka H, Koizumi H (2009)
Satellite Ecology (SATECO)?linking ecology, remote sensing and micrometeorology, from plot to regional scale, for the study of ecosystem structure and function.
Chung H, Muraoka H, Nakamura M, Han S, Muller O, Son Y (2013)
Experimental warming studies on tree species and forest ecosystems: a literature review.
From "JPR Symposium on the Carbon Cycle Process in East Asia"
Ohtsuka T, Shizu Y, Nishiwaki A, Yashiro Y, Koizumi H (2010)
Carbon cycling and net ecosystem production at an early stage of secondary succession in an abandoned coppice forest.
Noh NJ, Son Y, Lee SK, Yoon TK, Seo KW, Kim C, Lee W-K, Bae SW, Hwang J (2010)
Influence of stand density on soil CO2 efflux for a Pinus densiflora forest in Korea.
He J-S, Wang X, Schmid B, Flynn DFB, Li X, Reich PB, Fang J (2010)
Taxonomic identity, phylogeny, climate and soil fertility as drivers of leaf traits across Chinese grassland biomes.
Muraoka H, Saigusa N, Nasahara KN, et al. (2010)
Effects of seasonal and interannual variations in leaf photosynthesis and canopy leaf area index on gross primary production of a cool-temperate deciduous broadleaf forest in Takayama, Japan.