Impacts of typhoon disturbances on biodiversity and ecosystem functions in a subtropical insular ecosystem.

本项目的目的是调查台风干扰对琉球群岛亚热带森林生物多样性和生态系统功能的影响。1)亚热带森林分类和功能多样性对台风干扰的响应；2)严重台风干扰下森林生态系统的适应性管理；3)外来物种种群对自然/人为干扰的时空动态响应；4)气候变化对岛状生物群落生物多样性格局的影响。

The purpose of this project is to investigate the impacts of typhoon disturbance on biodiversity and ecosystem functions in a subtropical forest in the Ryukyu Archipelago. Specifically, we focused on the following issues:1) the response of taxonomic and functional diversity in a subtropical forest to typhoon disturbance2) adaptive managements of forest ecosystem under a severe typhoon disturbance regime3) spatio-temporal dynamics of an alien species population in response to natural/anthropogenic disturbances, 4) the impacts of climate changes on biodiversity patterns in an insular biological community.