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‚xASUDA, Masatoshi
Last update: 3 August 2006
- 1. Contact address (moved)
- Forest Zoology Laboratory, Kyushu Research Centger, Forestry
and Forest Products Research Institute
- 4-11-16 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-0862 Japan
- Tel +81-96-343-3972 / Fax +81-96-344-5054
- Email:
- 2. Present position and degree
- Senior Researcher, Forestry and Forest Products Research
Institute
- Doctor of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo (1998)
- 3. Research topics
- Mammals in Asian tropical forests (Brunei, Indoneseia, Malaysia
& Thailand)
- Frugivory and seed dispersal by animals (scatter hoarding
in rodents)
- Camera-trapping as a tool for investigating wildlife
- Contamination of dioxin-like compounds in wildlife
- Reproductive phenology (mass flowering) of dipterocarps
- 4. Taxa studied
- EULIPOTYPHLA (INSECTIVORA); Mogera, Euroscaptor
(moles), Echinosorex (moonrat)
- RODENTIA; Apodemus, Leopoldamys, Maxomys,
Callosciurus, Hystrix, etc. (mice, squirrels &
porcupines)
- SCANDENTIA; Tupaia (treeshrews)
- CARNIVORA; Viverridae; Viverra etc. (civets)
- 5. Publication list (1991-2006)
- <1990s>
- Yasuda, M., Nakagoshi, N. &
Takahashi, F. (1991) Examination of the spool-and-line method
as a quantitative technique to investigate seed dispersal by
rodents. Japanese Journal of Ecology 41: 257-262. (in
Japanese with English summary) <pdf>
- Miura, S., Yasuda, M. &
Ratnam, L. (1997) Who steal the fruits? Monitorning frugivory
of mammals in a tropical rain forest. Malayan Nature Journal
50: 183-193. <pdf>
- Yasuda, M., Matsumoto, J., Osada,
N., Ichikawa, S., Kachi, N., Tani, M., Okuda, T., Furukawa, A.,
Abdul Rahim Nik & N. Manokaran (1999) The mechanism of general
flowering in Dipterocarpaceae in the Malay Peninsula. Journal
of Tropical Ecology 15: 437-449. <pdf,
erratum (clear
photos) for printed version>
- <2000>
- Yasuda, M., Miura, S. &
Nor Azman H. (2000) Evidence for food hoarding behavior in terrestrial
rodents in Pasoh Forest Reserve, a Malaysian lowland rain forest.
Journal of Tropical Forest Science 12: 164-173. <pdf>
- <2001>
- Oshida, T., Yasuda, M., Endo,
H., Nor Azman, H. & Masuda, R. (2001) Molecular phylogeny
of five squirrel species of the genus Callosciurus (Mammalia,
Rodentia) inferred from cytochrome b gene sequences. Mammalia
65: 473-482. <pdf>
- Wakasugi, M. T., Yasuda, M.,
Kanzaki, M. & Yamakura, T. (2001) Seed dispersal of Sapindus
mukorossi (Sapindaceae) identified by an automatic camera
system at the Kasugayama forest, central Japan. Journal of Kansai
Organization of Nature Conservation 23: 3-12. <pdf>
- <2002>
- Yasuda, M. & Kawakami, K.
(2002) A new method of monitoring remote wildlife via the Internet.
Ecological Research 17: 119-124. <pdf>
- <2003>
- Yasuda, M., Ishii, N., Okuda,
T. & Nor Azman H. (2003) Small mammal community: habitat
preference and effects after selective logging. In Okuda, T.,
Manokaran, N., Matsumoto, Y., Niiyama, K., Thomas, S. C. &
Ashton, P. S. eds. Pasoh: Ecology of a lowland rain forest in
Southeast Asia. Pp. 533-546. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo. <pdf>
- Kawada, S., Shinohara, A., Yasuda,
M., Oda, S. & Lim, B. L. (2003) The mole of Peninsular
Malaysia: notes on its identification and ecology. Mammal Study
28: 73-77. <pdf>
- Numata, S., Yasuda, M., Okuda,
T., Kachi, N. & Nur Supandi Md. N. (2003) Temporal and spatial
patterns of mass flowerings on the Malay Peninsula. American
Journal of Botany 90: 1025-1031. <pdf>
- Takasuga, T., Yasuda, M., Yamada,
F. & Senthilkumar K. (2003) Bioaccumulation profiles of UNEP's
POPs in terrestrial wildlife of Japan. Organohalogen Compounds
64: 360-365. <pdf>
- <2004>
- Yasuda, M. (2004) Monitoring
diversity and abundance of mammals with camera traps: a case
study on Mount Tsukuba, central Japan. Mammal Study 29: 37-46.
<pdf>
- Shinohara, A., Kawada, S., Yasuda,
M. & Lim B. L. (2004) Phylogenetic position of the
Malaysian mole, Euroscaptor micrura (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla),
inferred from three gene sequences. Mammal Study 29: 185-189.
<pdf>
- Oshida, T., Shafique, C. M., Barkati, S., Yasuda,
M., Nor Azman, H., Endo, H. Yanagawa, H. & Masuda,
R. (2004) Phylogenetic position of the small Kashmir flying squirrel,
Hylopetes finbriatus (= Eoglaucomys fimbriatus),
in the subfamily Pteromyinae. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82:
1336-1342. <pdf>
- <2005>
- Yasuda, M., Miura, S., Ishii,
N., Okuda, T. & Nor Azman H. (2005) Fallen fruits and terrestrial
vertebrate frugivores: a case study in a lowland tropical rain
forest in Peninsular Malaysia. In Forget, P. M., Lambert, J.
E., Hulme, P. E. and Vander Wall, S. B. (eds.) Seed Fate: Predation,
Dispersal and Seedling Establishment. Pp. 151-174. CABI Publishing.
<pdf>
- Numata, S., Okuda, T., Sugimoto, T., Nishimura, S., Yoshida,
K., Quah E. S, Yasuda, M., Muangkhum,
K. & Nur Supardi, Md. N. (2005) Camera trapping: A non invasive
approach as an additional tool in the study of mammals in Pasoh
Forest Reserve and adjacent fragmented areas in Paninsular Malaysia.
Malayan Nature Journal 57: 29-45. <pdf>
- Fukui, A., Yasuda, M., Kouyama,
K. & Kanai, Y. (2005) Species assembly of forest birds of
Japan, on the basis of large-scale monitoring censuses in breeding
season. Strix 23: 1-29. (in Japanese with
English summary) <pdf>
- Kawada, S., Shinohara, A., Yasuda,
M., Oda, S. & Lim, B. L. (2005) Karyological study
of the Malaysian mole, Euroscaptor micrura malayana (Insectivora,
Talpidae) from Cameron Highlands, Peninsular Malaysia. Mammal
Study 30: 109-115. <pdf>
- Yasuda, M., Kawaji, N., Fukui,
A. & Kanai, Y. (2005) Temporal changes of avian communities
in Japan during the late 20th century examined using the phi
coefficient. Japanese Journal of Ornithology 54: 86-101. (in Japanese with English summary) <pdf>
- <2006>
- Kunisue, T., Watanabe, M. X., Iwata, H., Tsubota, T., Yamada,
F., Yasuda, M. & Tanabe, S. (2006) PCDDs, PCDFs, and coplanar PCBs in wild terrestrial mammals from Japan: Congener specific accumulation and hepatic sequestration. Environmental Pollution 140:525-535.
- Numata, S., Yasuda, M., Okuda, T., Kachi, N. & Nur Supardi Md. Noor (2006) Comparison of canopy gap dynamics and light environment of forest floor between two different forest stands in a Malaysian lowland rain forest. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 18:109-116.
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