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Welcome to the website of Conservation Ecology Laboratory, Yamagata University, Japan! We are interested in interface of human and wildlife, and aiming to contribute to their co-existence. We are mainly working on the field of conservation ecology, evolutionary ecology, and eco-epidemiology by focusing on mammals, birds, amphibians, and ticks. Please see our achievements in details of our researches.

E-mail : hkomine（＠）tds1.tr.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Address : 1-23 Wakaba-machi, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, 997-0037 Japan

Key words

Interface of human and wildlife

Invasive alien species

Urbanization

Tick-borne infectious disease

Conservation ecology

Evolutionary ecology

Eco-epidemiology

Island ecology

Member

Principal Investigator

Hirotaka Komine　Ph.D.

CV (https://researchmap.jp/hkomine/?lang=english)

Education

April 2015 - March 2019

United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

April 2013 - March 2015

Department of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and　Technology

April 2009 - March 2013

Department of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Career

May 2021 -

tenure track Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamagata University

May 2020 - April 2021

Research fellow, Department of Wildlife Biology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

April 2019 - April 2020

Research Fellow, Institute of Global Innovation Research, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

December 2019 - March 2020

Visiting researcher, James Cook University

October 2017 - April 2018

Visiting researcher, James Cook University

April 2015 - March 2018

Research Fellow DC1, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Award

March 2020

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Scientific study student award

March 2019

The 66th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, English presentation award, Excellent Award, Ecological Society of Japan

April 2017

Scientific study student award, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

March 2016

The 63th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, English presentation award, Excellent Award, Ecological Society of Japan

November 2015

Exemption of tuition fees for excellent achieving student, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

June 2015

Exemption of scholarship for excellent achieving student, Japan Student Services Organization for Graduate School

March 2015

Scientific study student award, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

March 2014

The 61th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Excellent poster presentation award, Ecological Society of Japan

Master course

(1st year)

K. I.

Undergraduate

(4th year)

T. S.

S. B.

Undergraduate

(3rd year)

Achievements

Publications
(Peer reviewed papers)

Hirotaka Komine, Kimiko Okabe (2023) Summer collection of multiple southern species of ticks in a remote northern island in Japan and literature review of the distribution and avian hosts of ticks.

Experimental and Applied Acarology 90: 357–374

＊Introduced in New Scientist and Japanese medias (Nihon Keizai Shimbun etc.)

Hirotaka Komine, Kiyomi Yasumiba, Lin Schwarzkopf (in press) The country toad and the city toad: comparing morphology of invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina) from rural and urban environments.

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 450–464

＊Introduced in New Scientist and Japanese medias (Nihon Keizai Shimbun etc.)

Toru Taniwaki, Kyohei Watanabe, Hirotaka Komine, Kahoko Tochigi, Masanobu Yamane, Shinsuke Koike (2022) Response of specialist and generalist predators to nonprogressive annual fluctuations in herbivorous insect populations.

Biological Control 165: 104810　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　＊Introduced in Japanese medias (Nihon Keizai Shimbun etc.)
Watari, Y, Komine, H, Angulo, E, Diagne, C, Ballesteros-Mejia, L, Courchamp, F (2021) First synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions in Japan.

NeoBiota 67: 79-101
Hirotaka Komine, Noriko Iwai, Koichi Kaji (2021) Rapid responses in morphology and performance of native frogs induced by predation pressure from invasive mongooses

Biological Invasions 23: 1293–1305

＊Introduced in ScienMag, Bioenginner.org and Japanese medias (Nihon Keizai Shimbun etc.)

Hirotaka Komine, Bruna Elisa Trentin (2020) Temporal changes in number of breeding individuals of the Amami tip-nosed frog.

Current Herpetology 39(1) 13-18　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　＊Picked up in the journal's cover.

Hirotaka Komine (2020) ODORRANA AMAMIENSIS (Amami Tip-nosed Frog). PREDATION

Herpetological Review 51(2) 301
Hirotaka Komine (2020) ODORRANA AMAMIENSIS (Amami Tip-nosed Frog) and ODORRANA SPLENDIDA (Amami Ishikawa’s Frog). INTERSPECIFIC AMPLEXUS

Herpetological Review 51(1) 100
Hirotaka Komine, Shinsuke Koike, Lin Schwarzkopf (2020) Impacts of artificial light on food intake in invasive toads.

Scientific Reports 10(Article number: 6527)

＊Introduced in Optronics, Phys.org, Qubit, ScienMag, Smart lightning, Steam Daily, Bibgraph, Bioengineer.org and Japanese medias (Nihon keizai shinbun, Kagaku shinbun etc.).

Hirotaka Komine, Keita Fukasawa, Munemitsu Akasaka, Yuya Watari, Noriko Iwai, Koichi Kaji (2020) Rapid behavioural responses of native frogs caused by past predation pressure from invasive mongooses

Journal of Zoology 310(2) 126-134

＊Introduced in New Scientist, Nplus1 and Japanese medias (Nihon keizai shinbun, Kagaku shinbun, Amami shinbun, Asahi shinbun, Sankei shinbun, Zaikei shinbun, NHK, FNN prime and Yahoo news etc.)

Hirotaka Komine, Bruna Elisa Trentin, Shinsuke Koike (2020) Relative abundance differences of two invasive toad species on Minami-daito and Kita- daito Islands Japan

Current Herpetology 39(1) 38-46
Hirotaka Komine, Yuya Watari, Koichi Kaji (2019) Ecological character displacement in non-congeneric frogs

Zoological Science 36(5) 410-416

＊Picked up in the journal's cover and introduced in Japanese medias (Kagaku Shinbun, Amami shinbun etc.).

Hirotaka Komine (2017) ODORRANA AMAMIENSIS (Amami Tip-nosed Frog). PREDATION.

Herpetological Review 48(2) 412
Hirotaka Komine, Noriko Iwai, Yuya Watari, Koichi Kaji (2016) ODORRANA AMAMIENSIS (Amami Tip-nosed Frog). MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN BREEDING INDIVIDUALS.

Herpetological Review 47(4) 645-646
岡久雄二, 佐々木礼佳, 大久保香苗, 東郷なりさ, 小峰浩隆, 高木憲太郎, 森本元 (2016) 青木ヶ原における森林性鳥類の営巣環境

富士山研究 10 41-45
Yuya Watari, Hirotaka Komine (2016) Field observation of male–male fighting during a sexual interaction in the whip scorpion Typopeltis stimpsonii (Wood 1862) (Arachnida: Uropygi).

Acta Arachnologica 65(1) 49-54

Hirotaka Komine, Kazutaka Takeshita, Shintaro Abe, Takuya Ishikawa, Mariko Kimura, Takuma Hashimoto, Kenji Kitaura, Takahiro Morosawa, Kanako Seki, Koichi Kaji (2016) Relationships between capture-site characteristics and capture levels of the invasive mongoose on Amami-Oshima Island, Japan. Biological Invasions 18(2) 487-495

Presentations

Hirotaka Komine , Kimiko Okabe

Southern Ticks on a Remote Island in Tohoku Region.

SADI (Seminar on Tick-borne Disease Interface) June, 2022

Hirotaka Komine, Kimiko Okabe, Yuya Wataru, Hayato Iijima

When, where, and what kind of ticks are common? Effects of Season, Landscape, and Wildlife.

The 69th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (March 2022, Fukuoka)

Kaori Morishima, Hirotaka Komine, Kimiko Okabe, Yuya Wataru, Hayato Iijima

What animals do ticks like? Host preference of each species based on literature survey

The 69th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (March 2022, Fukuoka)

Hirotaka Komine, Kimiko Okabe, Yuya Wataru, Hayato Iijima

Where and what kind of ticks are common? Effects of Landscape and Wildlife.

SADI (Seminar on Tick-Disease Interface) September, 2021

Kimiko Okabe, Yuya Wataru, Hayato Iijima,Hirotaka Komine, Koichi Goka, Yoshiko Sakamoto, Ken Maeda

An Ecological Approach to Controlling Tick-borne Infectious Diseases Using SFTS as a Model

SADI (Seminar on Tick-Disease Interface) September, 2021

Hirotaka Komine, Yuya Watari, Hayato Iijima, Kimiko Okabe

Tick-host-land use at SFTS epidemic area

The 68th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (March 2021, Okayama, )

Hirotaka Komine

Rapid morphological change to the insular environment of invasive cane toad

The 67th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (March 2020, Nagoya)

Hirotaka Komine, Koichi Kaji, Lin Schwarzkopf

Rapid morphological change to the urban environment of invasive toad in Australia

The 66th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (March 2019, Kobe)

Yuya Fukano,Hirotaka Komine

Investigating a Framework for Evolutionary Alien Species Management_Symposium Development of Evolutionary Applied Ecology: Theory and Practice [S01-4]

The 65th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (March 2018, Sapporo)

Hirotaka Komine, Noriko Iwai, Koichi Kaji

Possibility of intergeneric ecological character displacement in Amami tip-nosed frog

The 64th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (Mar 2017, Tokyo)

Hirotaka Komine, Noriko Iwai, Yuya Watari, Koichi Kaji

Non-congeneric ecological character displacement of Amami tip-nosed frog in Japan

102nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (August 2017, Portland)

Hirotaka Komine, Noriko Iwai, Koichi Kaji

Possibility of inter generic ecological character displacement in Amami tip-nosed frog

The 55th Annual Meeting of the Herpetological Society of Japan (November 2016, Okinawa)

Yuya Watari, Keita Fukasawa, Takuma Hashimoto, Takahiro Morosawa, Hirotaka Komine, Fumio Yamada, Chizuru Iwamoto, Shintaro Abe　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Final stage of the mongoose eradication project on AmamiOshima Island, Japan.

Island Biology 2016.II International Conference on Island Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation. (July 21, 2016, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal)

Hirotaka Komine, Noriko Iwai, Koichi Kaji

Rapid adaptive morphological change of native frog induced by invasive alien mongoose

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (March 2016, Sendai)

Hirotaka Komine, Keita Fukasawa, Yuya Watari, Munemitsu Akasaka, Noriko Iwai, Koichi Kaji

Rapid adaptive behavioral change of native frog induced by invasive mongoose.

Behavior 2015; 34th International Ethological Conference (August 2015, Cairns)

Hirotaka Komine, Keita Fukasawa, Yuya Watari, Munemitsu Akasaka, Noriko Iwai, Koichi Kaji

Rapid adaptive behavioral change of native frog induced by multiple invasive predators.

The 5th International Wildlife Management Congress. (July 2015, Sapporo)

Hirotaka Komine, Keita Fukasawa, Yuya Wataru, Munemitsu Akasaka, Noriko Iwai, Koichi Kaji

Rapid adaptive changes of native species to alien mongoose

The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (March 2015, Kagoshima)

Hirotaka Komine, Kazutaka Takeshita, Sintaro Abe, Takuya Ishikawa, Takuma Hashimoto, Kenji Kitaura, Takahiro Morosawa, Kanako Seki, Koichi Kaji

Environmental characteristics of capture site for the eradication of invasive mongoose in Amami Island, Japan.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Joint 2014 Annual Meeting British Ecological Society and Société Française d’Ecologie (December 2014, Lille)

Hirotaka Komine, Kazuki Takeshita, Shintaro Abe, Takuya Ishikawa, Takuma Hashimoto, Kenji Kitaura, Takahiro Morosawa, Kanako Seki, Koichi Kaji

Analysis of capture area characteristics and residual risk assessment for Small-footed Mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) on Amami Oshima　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　The 61st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (March 2014, Hiroshima)

Funding

Infection risk and biodiversity: examination of dilution effect hypothesis by urbanization gradation

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research April 2021-

Rapid adaptive changes of wildlife to island environments - examination in alien cane toads -

Fujiwara Natural History Foundation FY2018 Fujiwara Natural History Foundation Academic Research Grant April 2019 - March 2020

Rapid ecological character displacement of native species driven by alien species

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Dispatch of Doctoral Students Abroad with the President's Discretionary Funds Oct 2017 - Apr 2018

Elucidation of rapid evolution of native species and its influence on alien mongooses on Amami Oshima

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship 2015.4 - 2018.3

Conservation ecological study of endangered Amami tip-nosed frog on Amami Oshima and Tokunoshima

Zoshinkai Fund for Protection of Endangered Animals 2014.7 - 2015.6

Regional characteristics analysis of invasive mongoose and an estimation of their risk assessment for Amami-Oshima island in Japan.

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Dispatch of Students Abroad with the President's Discretionary Funds 2014.12 - 2014.12

Analysis of Habitat Characteristics and Migration Dispersal Factors of Remaining Mongooses on Amami Oshima

Wildlife Research Center Inui Tasuke Memorial Animal Science Research Grant July 2012 - June 2014

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