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The number of species occurring on the globe is estimated to be some ten million, but now rapidly decreasing due to environmental changes caused by human activity. This lecture provides the general information on biodiversity of various taxa and explains the importance of genetic diversity in the maintenance of biodiversity.
The biological diversity of the planet is being rapidly depleted due to the direct and indirect consequences of human activity. This lecture provides basic and recent ecological topics on evolutionary processes of speciation, maintenance of species diversity, population dynamics and biological community.
To obtain basic knowledge and experimental techniques on molecular biology through lecture and laboratory works.
To understand the structure and functional activity of the marine ecosystems~
To understand the marine productivity and their mechanisms~
To understand the structure and circulation of the ocean and the mechanism~
To understand the waves and tides in the ocean and their mechanisms~
To understand the field science on ecosystem consevetion, sustainable bioproduction, biodiversity, and material cycling in a wide variety of fields including forest, farm, and aquatic environments, and to learn the most advanced field science in each research field.
In this lecture, students study recent biomass and food production by plant agriculture, forestry, stockbreeding and aquaculture, and their fundamental biological and ecological system.
Enable students to understand patterns and mechanisms of adaptations to various growing environments in relation to environmental properties.
To understand patterns and mechanisms of adaptations to various growing environments in relation to environmental properties.
This lecture provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to genetic principles and practices involved in conservation. Topics covered~
included: evolutionary genetics of natural populations，loss of genetic diversity，in breeding and loss of fitness，genetic management of threatened species and so on.
This lecture aims to introduce the importance of genetic variation and genetic mechanisms in the generation and maintenance of biodiversity.
To understand patterns and mechanisms of adaptations to various growing environments in relation to environmental properties.
Studying molecular mechanism of response and resistance to environmental stress in plants and microorganisms. Studying methods to utirize these organisms for human life and remediation of damaged environment.
Overview the mechanisms of plant community organization, statistical modeling for data analysis in plant ecology.
Understanding of diverse adaptations to growing environments based on the life-history traits of individual plant species. Fundamentals necessary for quantitative analyses in ecology, and usage and examples in plant ecology studies and papers are explained.
The objectives of this course are to study basic principles and research methods for animal behavior and life history evolution, and to understand biological responses to environmental changes at the levels ranging from genetics, individuals to populations.
The objectives of this course are to study the dynamics of animal populations and communities of and the underlying mechanisms, and to understand biological responses to environmental changes at the levels ranging from population, community to ecosystems.
This lecture provides teaching for the marine biological production processes related to trace metal speciation and bioavailability and biological uptake of metals and nutrients in seawater.
Students will study fundamental knowledge of geophysical fluid dynamics including advection and diffusion. They will also study biological diffusion and ecological modeling.
In this class, student will study the cell structure, development and physiology on organisms living in the aquatic environment, including teleost fish and algae. Evolution and adaptive mechanisms of these organisms will be also lectured.
Environmental biological functions from coastal area to open sea in ecosystem are lectured. In addition ecological characters of aquatic creatures are surveyed to comprehend factors of fluctuation of biological resources.
The aim of this course is to learn fundamental informations about the forest function which affects our surrounding environments.
Learning forest dynamics, especially tree species and biological interaction
This lecture is aimed to learn basic theory and research methods to conserve vertebrates through investigating the number of species and abundance of various animals in the field.
Participants will learn about regional resources from the viewpoints of their types and details, historical development and present situation, and techniques to assess them. The participants will then discuss appropriate regimes of regional resource management, which can bet compatible with environmental conservation issues.
Students understand following points,
(1)the importance of exploration and improvement of crop resources
(2)the management of agricultural field and cropping system
Understand the property of grassland and animal barn in term of environment issues. Consider the significance of animal production in Agro-ecosystem to keep a balance with the conservation of environment.
Understand the advance of science through the critical reading of research papers.
An appropriate research subject will be set through consultation with students.
Biosphere is the global ecological system integrating all living organisms. Mission of the “Division of Biosphere” is to introduce the mechanisms how biological diversity is maintained and developed that are responsible for the function of biosphere. The mechanisms include molecular or cellular levels and interactions between different organisms to form each biome. Our research activities take advantage of finding evidence and collecting data from the fields, so called field science. Laboratories are highly equipped with advanced facilities enough to explore unknown mechanisms. The final goal of education is to provide students with the viewpoint of feedback effects of living organisms on forming physicochemical environments and also with the ability to work on important environmental issues. Bioremediation is also within our scope.
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