A research group led by Associate Professor Masashi Hashimoto of the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agriculture and Life has collected literature on sugi and cypress for the past 70 years and digitized the data to build a database.We hope that it will help predict the impact of climate change on forestry and improve forest management methods.
According to the University of Tokyo, sugi and cypress occupy the center of artificial forests in Japan and have been studied for a long time.For this reason, a huge amount of literature is left, but the data has not been unified and it was not easy to use.
Therefore, Associate Professor Hashimoto et al. Collected data on 1 sugi and 6,400 cypress from literature published in the past 8,300 years, including photosynthesis, transpiration rate, forest density, inorganic nutrient content, and drought tolerance 70. Items were digitized into a database.
The data includes not only in Japan but also in the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, and China, as well as in both artificial and natural forests.The database is open access and open to everyone.
In data collection, in addition to research papers, books, bulletins, presentation materials of related academic societies, reports of each research institution that do not hit by searching through the Internet, unpublished data sets, etc., it is inferior to other databases in the world. It is said that the content was not.
A wide range of data, such as photosynthesis and stress tolerance, are needed to accurately predict the impact of climate change on forests, and this database covers them.
Paper information:[Ecological Research 35] Plant trait database for Cryptomeria japonica and Chamaecyparis obtusa (Sugi Hinoki DB) —their physiology, morphology, anatomy and biochemistry
Database:Plant trait database for Cryptomeria japonica and Chamaecyparis obtusa (SugiHinoki DB) —their physiology, morphology, anatomy and biochemistry
