Research Interest

Community ecology, Tropical forest ecology, Functional traits, Global change biology, Bayesian and likelihood methods 

Education

Tohoku University, Japan, Supervisor: Tohru Nakashizuka 

2012 Ph.D.(Life Sciences), Graduate School of Life Sciences 

2009 M.S. (Life Sciences), Graduate School of Life Sciences 

2007 B.S. (Biology), Department of Biology 

Academic & Research Positions

June 2019- Associate Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

August 2017-February 2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Michigan State University, USA 

January 2017-August 2017 Visiting Scholar, University of Florida, USA 

March 2016-January 2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Florida, USA 

February 2014-February 2016 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad, University of Florida, USA 

September 2012-February 2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

April-August 2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tohoku University, Japan 

April 2010-March 2012 JSPS Research Fellow DC2, Tohoku University, Japan 

Funding

2014: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad (no. 25-504) 10,512,000 JPY ($105,000) 

2013: Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellowships for Young International Scientists (no.2013Y1SB0002) 165,000 RMB ($26,000) 

2010: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for JSPS Research Fellowship (no. 22-7035) 1,400,000 JPY ($14,000) 

Publications

1.       Sreekar, R., M. Katabuchi, A. Nakamura, R. T. Corlett, J. W. F. Slik, C. Fletcher, F. He, G. D. Weiblen, G. Shen, H. Xu, I.-F. Sun, K. Cao, K. Ma, L.-W. Chang, M. Cao, M. Jiang, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, P. Ong, S. Yap, C. V. S. Gunatilleke, V. Novotny, W. Y. Brockelman, W. Xiang, X. Mi, X. Li, X. Wang, X. Qiao, Y. Li, S. Tan, R. Condit, R. D. Harrison, and L. P. Koh. 2018. Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude. Royal Society Open Science 5, 181168 doi: 10.1098/rsos.181168 

2.       Johnson, D. J., J. Needham, C. Xu, E. C. Massoud, S. J. Davies, K. J. Anderson-Teixeira, S. Bunyavejchewin, J. Q. Chambers, C.-H. Chang-Yang, J.-M. Chiang, G. B. Chuyong, R. Condit, S. Cordell, C. Fletcher, C. P. Giardina, T. W. Giambelluca, N. Gunatilleke, S. Gunatilleke, C.-F. Hsieh, S. Hubbell, F. Inman-Narahari, A. R. Kassim, M. Katabuchi,, D. Kenfack, C. M. Litton, S. Lum, M. Mohamad, M. Nasardin, P. S. Ong, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, N. G. Swenson, I.-F. Sun, S. Tan, D. W. Thomas, J. Thompson, M. N. Uma？a, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, S. Yap, J. Zimmerman, N. G. McDowell, and S. M. Mcmahon. 2018. Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 1436–1442 doi:10.1038/s41559- 018-0626-z 

3.       Osnas, J.L.D., M. Katabuchi., K. Kitajima, S.J. Wright, P.B. Reich, S.A. Van Bael, N.J.B. Kraft, M.J. Samaniego, S.W. Pacala, and J.W. Lichstein. Divergent drivers of leaf trait variation within species, among species, and among functional groups. 2018. PNAS 115, 5480-5485 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803989115 

4.       Li, Y., Shipley, B., Price, J. N., de L. Dantas, V., Tamme, R., Westoby, M., Siefert, A., Schamp, B. S., Spasojevic, M. J., Jung, V., Laughlin, D. C., Richardson, S. J., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Sch？b, C., Gazol, A., Prentice, H. C., Gross, N., Overton, J., Cianciaruso, M. V., Louault, F., Kamiyama, C., Nakashizuka, T., Hikosaka, K., Sasaki, T., M. Katabuchi, Frenette Dussault, C., Gaucherand, S., Chen, N., Vandewalle, M. and Batalha, M. A. 2018. Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide. Journal of Ecology 106:1001–1009 doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12802 

5.       Katabuchi, M., S. J. Wright, N. G. Swenson, K. J. Feeley, R. Condit, S. P. Hubbell, and S. J. Davies. Contrasting outcomes of species- and community-level analyses of the temporal consistency of functional composition. 2017. Ecology 98: 2273-2280. doi:10.1002/ecy.1952 

6.       Nakamura, A., C. J. Burwell, L. A. Ashton, M. J. Laidlaw, M. Katabuchi, and R. L. Kitching. 2016. Identifying indicator species of elevation: Comparing the utility of woody plants, ants and moths for long‐term monitoring. Austral Ecology 41:179–188. 

7.       Ashton, L. A., A. Nakamura, Y. Basset, C. J. Burwell, M. Cao, R. Eastwood, E. Odell, E. G. de Oliveira, K. Hurley, M. Katabuchi, S. Maunsell, J. McBroom, J. Schmidl, Z. Sun, Y. Tang, T. Whitaker, M. J. Laidlaw, W. J. F. McDonald, and R. L. Kitching. 2016. Vertical stratification of moths across elevation and latitude. Journal of Biogeography 43:59–69. 

8.       Deng, X., D. Mohandass, M. Katabuchi, A. C. Hughes, and D. W. Roubik. 2015. Impact of Striped-Squirrel Nectar-Robbing Behaviour on Gender Fitness in Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae). PLoS ONE 10:e0144585–17. 

9.       Katabuchi, M. 2015. LeafArea: an R package for rapid digital image analysis of leaf area. Ecological Research 30:1073–1077. 

10.    Siefert, A., C. Violle, L. Chalmandrier, C. H. Albert, A. Taudiere, A. Fajardo, L. W. Aarssen, C. Baraloto, M. B. Carlucci, M. V. Cianciaruso, V. de L Dantas, F. de Bello, L. D. S. Duarte, C. R. Fonseca, G. T. Freschet, S. Gaucherand, N. Gross, K. Hikosaka, B. Jackson, V. Jung, C. Kamiyama, M. Katabuchi, S. W. Kembel, E. Kichenin, N. J. B. Kraft, A. Lagerstr？m, Y. L. Bagousse-Pinguet, Y. Li, N. Mason, J. Messier, T. Nakashizuka, J. M. Overton, D. A. Peltzer, I. M. Pérez-Ramos, V. D. Pillar, H. C. Prentice, S. Richardson, T. Sasaki, B. S. Schamp, C. Sch？b, B. Shipley, M. Sundqvist, M. T. Sykes, M. Vandewalle, and D. A. Wardle. 2015. A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. Ecology Letters 18:1406–1419. 

11.    Nakamura, A., C. J. Burwell, C. L. Lambkin, M. Katabuchi, A. McDougall, R. J. Raven, and V. J. Neldner. 2015. The role of human disturbance in island biogeography of arthropods and plants: an information theoretic approach. Journal of Biogeography 42:1406–1417. 

12.    Kamiyama, C., M. Katabuchi, T. Sasaki, M. Shimazaki, T. Nakashizuka, and K. Hikosaka. 2014. Leaf-trait responses to environmental gradients in moorland communities: contribution of intraspecific variation, species replacement and functional group replacement. Ecological Research 29:607–617. 

13.    Hikosaka. K, T. Sasaki, C. Kamiyama, Katabuchi M., S. Oikawa, M. Shimazaki, H. Kimura and T. Nakashizuka 2014, Understanding of species niche, coexitene and extinction based on functional traits: approaches from community and physiological ecology for subalpine moorland plant communes. Chikyu-Kankyo, 19: 33-46 (in Japanese) 

14.    Sasaki, T., M. Katabuchi, C. Kamiyama, M. Shimazaki, T. Nakashizuka, and K. Hikosaka. 2014. Vulnerability of moorland plant communities to environmental change: consequences of realistic species loss on functional diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology 51:299–308. 

15.    Aiba, M., M. Katabuchi, H. Takafumi, S.-I. S. Matsuzaki, T. Sasaki, and T. Hiura. 2013. Robustness of trait distribution metrics for community assembly studies under the uncertainties of assembly processes. Ecology 94:2873–2885. 

16.    Cádiz, A., N. Nagata, M. Katabuchi, L. M. Díaz, L. M. Echenique-Díaz, H. D. Akashi, T. Makino, and M. Kawata. 2013. Relative importance of habitat use, range expansion, and speciation in local species diversity of Anolislizards in Cuba. Ecosphere 4:art78. 

17.    Sasaki, T., M. Katabuchi, C. Kamiyama, M. Shimazaki, T. Nakashizuka, and K. Hikosaka. 2013. Variations in Species Composition of Moorland Plant Communities Along Environmental Gradients Within a Subalpine Zone in Northern Japan. Wetlands 33:269–277. 

18.    Asanok, L., D. Marod, P. Duengkae, U. Pranmongkol, H. Kurokawa, M. Aiba, M. Katabuchi, and T. Nakashizuka. 2013. Relationships between functional traits and the ability of forest tree species to reestablish in secondary forest and enrichment plantations in the uplands of northern Thailand. Forest Ecology And Management 296:9–23. 

19.    Sasaki, T., M. Katabuchi, C. Kamiyama, M. Shimazaki, T. Nakashizuka, and K. Hikosaka. 2012. Nestedness and niche-based species loss in moorland plant communities. Oikos 121:1783–1790. 

20.    Sasaki, T., M. Katabuchi, C. Kamiyama, M. Shimazaki, T. Nakashizuka, and K. Hikosaka. 2012. Diversity partitioning of moorland plant communities across hierarchical spatial scales. Biodiversity and Conservation 21:1577–1588. 

21.    Katabuchi, M., H. Kurokawa, S. J. Davies, S. Tan, and T. Nakashizuka. 2012. Soil resource availability shapes community trait structure in a species-rich dipterocarp forest. Journal of Ecology 100:643–651. 

22.    Katabuchi, M., Y. Isagi, and T. Nakashizuka. 2008. Development of 17 microsatellite markers for Ceratosolen constrictus, the pollinating fig wasp of Ficus fistulosa. Molecular Ecology Resources 8:840–842. 

23.    Katabuchi, M., R. D. Harrison, and T. Nakashizuka. 2008. Documenting the effect of foundress number in a dioecious fig, Ficus fistulosa, in Malaysia. Biotropica 40:457–461. 

Book

1.       Hikosaka K., Sasaki T., Kamiyama C., Katabuchi M., Oikawa S., Shimazaki M., Kimura H. and Nakashizuka T. (2016), Trait-Based Approaches for Understanding Species Niche, Coexistence, and Functional Diversity in Subalpine Moorlands. Structure and Function of Mountain Ecosystems in Japan. 

Software

2015 LeafArea: Rapid Digital Image Analysis of Leaf Area, R CRAN package 

2015 mglmn: Model Averaging fro Multivariate GLM with Null Models, R CRAN package 

Teaching Experience

2013: Experimental Design and Data Analysis, ATBC Asia-Pacific chapter, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 

2013: R and generalized linear models, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

Service

2015- Working Group Member of INNGE, International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists 

2015- INNGE manager, The Japan Society of Tropical Ecology 

2013- Statistical editor for Lepcey, The Journal of Tropical Asian Entomology 

Reviewer for journals (~ 12 per year): 

AoB Plants, Biotropica, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Ecological Research, Ecology Letters, Ecosphere, Forest Ecology and Management, Frontiers Plant Science, Functional Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Plant Research, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Journal of Vegetation Science, Oecologia, Plant Ecology, PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports 

Awards and Prizes

2012: Dean’s award for excellence, Graduate School of Life Sciences (Doctoral Program), Tohoku University 

2009: Dean’s award for excellence, Graduate School of Life Sciences (Master’s Program), Tohoku University