第63回大会(仙台)　英語口頭発表賞受賞者

The Annual Meeting Award of the Ecological Society of Japan (English Presentation Award),2016

Applied Ecology | Plant Ecology | Animal Behavior | Animal Ecology | Ecosystem Ecology

＜Applied Ecology＞

【Best Award】
Regional differences in range shifts of butterflies to climate change and implications for protected areas in Japan
*Misako Matsuba, Minoru Kasada, Tadashi Miyashita (University of Tokyo)

【Excellent Award】
Do urban squirrels distinguish risk levels exposed by different potential predators?
*K.Uchida(Hokkaido univ.), K.Suzuki, T.Shimamoto(Iwate univ.), H.Yanagawa(Obihiro univ.), I.Koizumi(Hokkaido univ.).

＜Plant Ecology＞

【Best Award】
Respiration and anatomical characteristics of Moso bamboo culms
E.M.(Kyushu Univ.), Katayama A.(Kyushu Univ.), Utsumi Y.(Kyushu Univ.), Enoki T.(Kyushu Univ.), Koga S.(Kyushu Univ.), Otsuki K.(Kyushu Univ.).

【Excellent Award】
Habitat structures controlling the spatial distribution of vascular epiphytes
A., Tanaka M. (Kyoto Univ.), Sungpalee W., Sri-ngernyuang K. (Maejo Univ.), Kanzaki M. (Kyoto Univ.).

＜Animal Behavior＞

【Best Award】
Host manipulation by an ichneumonid spider-ectoparasitoid, taking advantage of preprogrammed web-building behaviours for its cocoon protection
*Takasuka K. (Kobe Univ.), Yasui T. (Kobe Univ.), Ishigami T. (Kobe Univ.), Nakata K. (Kyoto Women's Univ.), Matsumoto R. (Osaka Museum of Natural History), Ikeda K. (Kobe Univ.), Maeto K. (Kobe Univ.).

【Excellent Award】
Can sex difference in movement patterns really enhance mating encounters? Yes!
*Nobuaki Mizumoto (Kyoto Univ.), Ryota Sato (Hachinohe Inst. Tech.), Naohisa Nagaya (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.), Masato S. Abe (Natl. Inst. Inf. JST), Shigeto Dobata (Kyoto Univ.) and Ryusuke Fujisawa (Hachinohe Inst. Tech.).

＜Animal Ecology＞

【Best Award】
Geographic Variations of Acoustic Traits in Japanese Tree Frog (Buergeria japonica) in East Asian Archipelago
*Wang Y.H. (NTU), Lin Y.P. (TESRI), Tseng H.Y. (NMNS), LIN, Y.K. (NTU), Lin S.M. (NTNU).

【Excellent Award】
Rapid adaptive morphological change of native frog induced by invasive alien mongoose
*Hirotaka Komine (TUAT), Noriko Iwai (TUAT), Koichi Kaji (TUAT).

＜Ecosystem Ecology＞

【Best Award】
Functional significance of inconspicuous petals in scent-attracted flowers
*KATSUHARA K., USHIMARU A.(Kobe Univ.), KITAMURA S.(Ishikawa Prefectual Univ.).

【Excellent Award】
Ecology and evolution of the association between bryophytes and herbivorous insects
*Imada Y., Kato M. (Kyoto Univ.).