Hokkaido University Short-Term Exchange Program
(HUSTEP)
- Contents
-
[ Class | My turn | Flora list | International Student Center | Back issues ]
- Environmental Earth Science
-
I am the instructor in charge after 2010. If you have any queries, please contact me.
- Syllabus (2011)
-
Instructors:
Shiro Tsuyuzaki tsuyu (at) ees.hokudai.ac.jp
http://hosho.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/~tsuyu/Jun Hirokawa hirokawa (at) ees.hokudai.ac.jp Yutaka Watanabe yywata (at) ees.hokudai.ac.jp Kazuhiro Toyoda kazuhiro (at) ees.hokudai.ac.jp Hitoshi Suzuki htsuzuki (at) ees.hokudai.ac.jp Course Category
Course offered by Graduate School of Environmental Science
Year 2011 Semester/Quarter 1st Semester Course Format Lecture in English Credit 2 Keywords
global warming, atmosphere, oceans, plants, animals, ecological disturbance, paleoclimatology, radioactive waste disposal
Course Description
The objectives of this course are to learn several crucial issues in the global environment and to enhance ability of providing a possible resolution to the issues.
Course Goals
Understanding of causes and effects of global warming. Understanding of plants in Hokkaido and the threats to plant communities. Understanding of past history of the earth and distribution of animals. Understanding of ongoing ozone depletion and air pollution.
Course Outline
Week Contents Instructor 1 Introduction S Tsuyuzaki 2 Climatic change and civilization K Toyoda 3 Global warming and paleoclimatic changes K Toyoda 4 Nuclear power generation and underground disposal of the radioactive waste K Toyoda 5 Earth system and global warming Y Watanabe 6 The roles of the oceans and carbon cycles Y Watanabe 7 Marine feedback systems on global warming Y Watanabe 8 Stratospheric ozone depletion J Hirokawa 9 Tropospheric air pollution J Hirokawa 10 Atmospheric chemistry and climate change J Hirokawa 11 Strolling across the campus to see the real examples of ecosystems
(schedule may change depending on the weather)S Tsuyuzaki 12 Characteristics of temporal and spatial patterns on ecosystems in Japan
with reference to global warmingS Tsuyuzaki 13 Impact of environmental changes on geographic distributions of animals H Suzuki 14 Impact of environmental changes on genetic diversities H Suzuki 15 Impact of humans on biodiversity H Suzuki Textbook
To be announced
Grading Policy
Grading will be based on class participation and short papers.
Class Time, Dates and Location
14:45-16:15, Monday, D103-GSES
Subsection: Plants and Plant communities in Japan
- A brief introduction -
2011
April 18 2011
Guidance
What is environmental science?
Climate in Japan: temperature and precipitation
Sakura front (cherry blossom front)
Equation for predicting the date of cherry blossom
Changes in date of cherry blossom may change animal behavior
Vegetation map in the world (and self-introduction)
Question: Find out the common characteristics of the five species.
Trillium kamtschaticum Pall. (Liliaceae)
= Emblem of Hokkaido University
Corydalis ambigua Cham. et Schlecht. (Papaveraceae)
Anemone raddeana Regel (Ranunculaceae)
Scopolia japonica Maxim. (Solanaceae)
Gagea lutea (L.) Ker-Gawl. (Liliaceae)
Vegetation map in Japan
Deciduous and evergreen forests
Spring ephemerals
Introduction of instructors
Supplements (for field trip)
__________________________
Memorandum for the next week (27 June)
We will stroll across the campus to see the real examples of plants and ecosystems if the weather is not so bad.
- Meet here (Rm# D103) at 14:45!
- Prepare your protective armors (i.e., clothes and shoes) to battle against grasslands and forests, but you do not need heavy-armed ones.
- When we are walking, you do not have to remember all of plants. I hope you rememeber a few, though. Please mention seed dispersal types (wind, anmial, gravity, etc.) and habitat prefernces that will be discussed in the next lecture.
June 27 2011
Field trip: see the flora list and map
It was cloudy. No problem for the trip.
July 4 2011
Predator avoidance
Number of exotic species in Japan
_____
Precipitation
Dorso-ventral structure in Japan
Snow
Straight and dwarf forms of trees
Skislope vegetation
IPCC 2007
procedure on skislope establishment
problems (not only natural but also living problems)
Miscanthus sinensis: may be keystone species on skislopes in Japan
Summary
Human disturbance and exotic plants
Numbers of native vascular plants in Japan and Hokkaido
Number of alien plants estimated in Japan
Seed dispersal
Changes in the distribution of plant communities by global warming
Migration pace on plant communities with reference to seed dispersal types
Vertical distribution
Mixed forest
Routes of plant immigration for 2 million years
Disturbances
Scale, frequency, and intensity
Intermediate hypothesis (or theory)
Look at the campus
Flood - disturbance-maintained plant communities
References
See also, references for lectures
- Forman RTT & Godron M. 1986. Landscape ecology. John Wiley, New York.
- Glenn-Levin DC, Peet RK & Veblen TT. 1992. Plant succession. Theory and prediction. Chapman & Hall, London.
- Walker LR (ed.). 1999. Ecosystems of disturbed ground. Ecosystems of the world 16. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
[In Japanese]
- Hayashi I. 1990. Vegetation and geology (Shokusei Chirigaku). Taimeido, Tokyo.
- Kadomura H, Okada H & Araya T. 1988. 1977-78 volcanism and environmental hazards of Usu Volcano. (Usuzan. Sono Hendo to Saigai). Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo.
English