Industrial oil palm plantations threaten biodiversity in Southeast Asia, yet some native species are highly adaptable within these environments. Our study tracked four male leopard cats (Prionailurus...

We present the overwintering foraging tactics adopted by the sika deer recently established in a heavy snowfall region of northern Japan. We found that sedentary deer adopted risk-averse foraging by ...

Ecological processes influence the assembly of bifidobacterial communities in the infant gut. Dispersal from maternal body sites, family members, and shared environments introduces bifidobacteria. Ec...

This study digitized the Japanese government's paper-based statistical data on crop-growing calendars, creating a comprehensive database. The target crops encompassed a cumulative total of 157 differ....

We examined how abiotic factors and plant traits affect soil microbial properties in 18 forests across the Japanese archipelago. Our results showed that, in addition to abiotic factors, plant leaf tr...

Mature beech trees redistributed soil water, equal to ca. 10% of stand transpiration, from deeper moist soils to dry surface soils, where it was taken up by seedlings of different tree species.

This special issue is a partial compilation of research papers from “ACID RAIN 2020” conference held in Niigata in April 2023, focusing on ecosystem responses to air pollution. The Acid Rain Conferen...

In our new post Kenji Suetsugu, professor at Kobe University (Japan), presents his work ‘Mycorrhizal specialization toward each distinct Oliveonia fungus in two closely related photosynthetic Dacty…

Elevation negatively affects taxonomic and functional diversity of frogs in a tropical forest. There is a significant influence of elevation on taxonomic and functional dissimilarity values. Taxonomi...

Clear-cutting mangroves results in significant losses of total ecosystem carbon stocks, with the severity depending on various factors. Our study identifies a critical deforestation threshold of 75%,...

In this paper, we provide the dataset issued from field surveys of 2428 grid cells of 500 m × 500 m in French wetlands during springs 2021 and 2022. Such cells resulted from a stratified two-stage sa...

Fungal fairy rings (FFR) are fascinating natural phenomena that have intrigued people and scientists for centuries. These patterns, often represented by circular distributions of altered vegetation, a...

Only a few studies on moles have focused on mountain forests, where assessing abundance is complicated by thick layers of plant leaf litter and complex topography. By carefully searching for active m....

We conducted PAM in the subtropical forest landscape of the Amami-Oshima Island, Japan, which harbors more than a hundred endangered and/or endemic species. Our results suggest that the combination o...

In this study, we examined how city governments in Japan assess their local biota and their services. The groundbreaking point of our study was the use of “city flowers,” which are the official symbo....

Using a recently developed pipeline for phylogenetic placement of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) with samples across sites in Alaska, Kansas, and Brazil, we find evidence for three putative novel...

In this data paper, we present the largest freely available EcoPlate dataset for Japan, comprising data collected from a network of 74 natural planted sites (114 plots) in regions of East Asia rangin....