I am studying the mechanisms that govern phylogenetic and functional diversity of plant communities. I am also interested on how we can apply the ecological knowledge about community assembly and dynamics to forestry. While I have focused on plants till now, in my JSPS(PD) project, I am going to broaden my research object to soil microbes, so as to understand the interplay of community assembly at aboveground and belowground levels and its consequences on ecosystem functioning.

Peer-reviewed publications

Mori AS, Qian S, Tatsumi S. (2015) Academic inequality through the lens of community ecology: a meta-analysis. PeerJ 3: e1457.

Tatsumi S., Owari T., Mori A.S. (2015) Estimating competition coefficients in tree communities: a hierarchical Bayesian approach to neighborhood analysis. Ecosphere : in press.

Owari T., Tatsumi S., Ning L., Yin M. (2015) Height growth of Korean pine seedlings planted under strip-cut larch plantations in northeast China. International Journal of Forestry Research in press.

Tatsumi S., Owari T., Yin M., Ning L. (2014) Neighborhood analysis of underplanted Korean pine demography in larch plantations: Implications for uneven-aged management in northeast China. Forest Ecology and Management 322: 10-18.

Tatsumi S., Owari T., Kasahara H., Nakagawa Y. (2014) Individual-level analysis of damage to residual trees after single-tree selection harvesting in northern Japanese mixedwood stands. Journal of Forest Research 19(4): 369-378.

Tatsumi S., Owari T. (2013) Modeling the effects of individual-tree size, distance, and species on understory vegetation based on neighborhood analysis. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 43(11): 1006-1014.   [Editor's choice]

Tatsumi S., Owari T., Ohkawa A., Nakagawa Y. (2013) Bayesian modeling of neighborhood competition in uneven-aged mixed-species stands. Forest Resources and Mathematical Modeling 12: 191-209.

Tatsumi S., Owari T., Toyama K., Shiraishi N. (2012) Adaptation of a spatially-explicit individual-based forest dynamics model SORTIE-ND to conifer-broadleaved mixed stands in the University of Tokyo Hokkaido Forest. Forest Resources and Mathematical Modeling 11: 1-26.

Suzuki S., Tatsumi S., Ueno Y. (2010) Multiple-criteria decision-support system for optimising spatial distribution in a forest classification process. Journal of Forest Planning 16(1): 17-26.