Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine

• 樹上性小型齧歯類の資源利用性に関する研究
• 樹上性小型齧歯類の繁殖生態学的研究
• 樹上性小型齧歯類の行動生態学的研究

野生動物は面白い研究対象ですが、実際の研究ではかなりの忍耐と辛抱が必要です。粘り強く地道に動物と付き合うことができる人が最後に本当の面白さをモノにすることが出来ます。根気強く野生動物相手に研究をしたい学生を待っています。また、研究室は研究・勉学の場であると同時に社会生活を学ぶための重要な空間です。野生動物の野外調査は学生同士の助け合いがないと成り立ちません（これができない人は私の研究室はお勧めしません）。研究室の仲間達と一緒に社会についても学んで頂けたらと願っています。最後に、私の研究室は赤坂卓美助教・浅利裕伸特任講師の研究室とゼミ・コンパを共同で行っています。共同体制によって学生の皆さんが幅広い視野で学問に接することが出来ればと願っています。

Without forest resources, no man could live. Arboreal squirrels could make a suitable model to study the relationships between forest resources and wild mammals, as they completery depend on food and nest resources for forest environments. I and my students are studying food and nest resources used by Siberian flying squirrel in natural forests of Hokkaido. Recently, people focus on conservation and management of wild mammals to consider relationship between human and wild mammals, but the study on wild mammals occurring in mountainious natural forests remains unclear. Although such basic science may be boring, I hope that I can continue this study. Also, I am studying the evolution and phylogeography of squirrels. We can find high diversity of squirrels in Southeas Asia. When I think the evolutionary process of squirrels, I could find the relationship between squirrels and forests. How did the forest dynamics affect the squirrel diversity? To resolve this, now I am studying squirrels in Vietnam and Myanmar. I have reported that the geographical barriers such as large river and mountains could have affected the evolutionary history of squirrels heretofore. Also, I found new species of squirrel in small island of Vietnam. I hope that I can steadily contribute to accumulation of human knowledge.

• Study on resource utilization of Siberian flying dquirrel in natural forests of Hokkaido
• Study on reproductive ecology of Siberian flying dquirrel in natural forests of Hokkaido
• Study on resource utilization of small Japanese field mouse in natural forests of Hokkaido
• Phylogeographic study on squirrels in the Indochina Peninsula
• Basic ecology on pelage color variation of squirrels