Shun Takagi   Wataru Toki   Akira Yoshioka   
APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 51(1) 43-51 2016年2月 [査読有り]
Invasions of some areas of Japan by the exotic redback spider Latrodectus hasseltii Thorell (Araneae: Theridiidae) have been reported. While most of these invasions have occurred in urban areas, anthropogenic habitat modifications may provide an o...
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 84(6) 1657-1665 2015年11月 [査読有り]
Despite recent attempts to quantify the relative strength of density- and trait-mediated indirect effects, rarely has the issue been properly addressed at the population level. Most research is based on short-term small-scale experiments in which ...
Winter-flooding of rice paddies without the application of agricultural chemicals is attracting attention as a new agricultural method for enhancing the habitat conditions of wintering waterfowl in rice paddy ecosystems throughout Japan and east A...
An increasing number of studies are being conducted to examine the density- or trait-mediated indirect effects of large herbivores on phytophagous insects. However, these effects are highly context dependent and no general trends have been made cl...