The relationship between vegetation and biodiversity in mountain villages and forests and human activity

Graduate School of Landscape Design and Management

Associate Professor Yoshihiro Sawada

I research the relationship between nature and humans, such as how people use land and what they get from using the land, in order to investigate future preservation and application with an understanding of
the physical composition of the secondary nature of mountain villages and forests, such as the grasslands of the ridges of terraced paddy fields and the wetlands of rice paddies, waterways, and ponds.

Also, I conduct experiments on soil transplantation of ridges between rice fields in order to establish a method for creating fields while preserving biodiversity.