Agricultural Ecology  （Agricultural and Environmental Biology）

Overview

Agricultural research in recent years tends to be individualized and subdivided and separated from the field of agricultural production. Under such circumstances, our laboratory is conducting research based on agricultural ecology focusing on the interaction between agricultural products, the environment, and humans. In other words, targeting organisms that live in the ecosystem of cultivated land, increasing biological production, improving quality and efficiency, reducing the burden on the environment and preserving the production environment, environmental response and utilization of genetic resources, etc. We are conducting research aimed at building a new sustainable production system based on this.

Instructors

Professor	Saneyuki Kawabata
Associate Professor	Chikako Honda
Associate Professor	Wataru Yamori
Associate Professor	Wei Guo
Assistant Professor	Hiroyuki Kakui
Assistant Professor	Yu Wakabayashi

Ecological Harmony Engineering  （Biological and Environmental Engineering）

Overview

Building a next-generation agricultural system that connects fields and society and environmental technology with the aim of breaking away from the conventional productivity-oriented agricultural system and using nature's blessing ecosystem services in a sustainable and effective manner. We are conducting research on development based on the Tanashi Campus, which is a series of cultivated land, green land, and forest land. The research target is a complex system from the mechanism of the ecosystem service itself to the relationship between humans and society related to agriculture and food in the food chain such as producer-distributor-consumer, and the research method is field level. It covers a wide range of fields, from micro to macro at the laboratory level, to measurement, control, and analysis that make full use of engineering methods from the viewpoint. Currently, I am mainly conducting research on the development of various applications including practical use, cultivation and the construction of post-harvest technology aiming at high added value.

Instructors

Professor	Saneyuki Kawabata
Associate Professor	Wataru Yamori

Biosphere Correlation Science （Department of Ecosystem Studies）

Agricultural Land Ecology Laboratory Overview

Next-generation agriculture and agriculture aiming at the further prosperity of humankind in the new century, establishing an agricultural production system that is in harmony with the ecosystem, and improving crop productivity under the expanding adverse environmental conditions on the earth. We are conducting field science research utilizing a wide range of cultivated land and green lands, centered on cultivated land system function development science and cultivated land system environmental tolerance science.

Agricultural Land Ecology Laboratory　Instructors

Associate Professor	Chikako Honda

Laboratory of Forest Ecosystem Overview

We are conducting research related to the dynamics of forest ecosystems and mechanisms to sustain biodiversity. Research topics include interactions among organisms, genetic structures, adaptation to the environment, impacts of climate change and wildlife management, which have been studied at the individual, population and community levels for a variety of forest dwelling organisms as well as the forest itself.

Forest Biological Function Laboratory Instructor

Associate Professor	Susumu Goto
Assistant Professor	Tadashi Maehara