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Takashi Y. Ida
Associate Professor

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Faculty of Sciences

Nara Women's University

Kitauoya-nishi
Nara, Japan, 630-8506
Email: tyida(@)cc.nara-wu.ac.jp
EDUCATION

 

  • April 2005 – March 2009  

Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University

Doctoral Student (Supervisor: Dr. Kudo)

Dissertation title “Resource utilization patterns of understory herbs in cool-temperate deciduous forests” (Environmental Science)

Phenological traits and life-history strategies of herbaceous species inhabiting deciduous forests

  • April 2001 – March 2003  

Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University

Masters Student (Supervisor: Dr. Kudo)

Significance of floral color change on the pollination strategies of bumble-bee pollinated plants

  • April 1997 – March 2001  

Faculty of Informatics and Science, Nagoya University

Undergraduate student, Environmental Sciences Program

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

  • April 2016 –               

Faculty of Sciences, Nara Women's University

Associate professor

  • April 2014 – March 2016 

Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University

Post-doctoral Fellow in Dr. Ohgushi’s laboratory

  • March 2014 – March 2014 

Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University

Post-doctoral Fellow in Dr. Kudo’s laboratory

  • July 2013 – February 2014 

Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Japan-Norway Researcher mobility programme FY2013

Post-doctoral Fellow in Dr. Totland’s laboratory

Reevaluation of pollen limitation and resource limitation in plant reproduction.​

  • July 2011 –  June 2013 

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad

Post-doctoral Fellow in Dr. Harder’s laboratory

Comparison of seasonal variations in pollen limitation and resource utilization strategy of insect-pollinated plants among communities.

  • July 2010 –  June 2011 

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary

Government of Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships 2010-11

Post-doctoral Fellow in Dr. Harder’s laboratory

Linkage between physiological and reproductive traits of animal-pollinated plants

  • April 2009 – June 2010  

Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University

Post-doctoral Fellow in Dr. Kudo’s laboratory

Integrated analysis of the evolutionary significance of resource and pollen limitation of seed production

  • April 2006 – March 2008  

Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University

Research Fellowship for Young Scientist of Japan Society for the Promotion Science (JSPS)

Phenological traits and life history strategy of herbaceous species inhabiting deciduous forests

  • April 2003 – March 2005  

Pacific Consultants Co., LTD.

Consultant for environmental assessment and/or planning

Conservation planning in river and road improvement works

Assessment and analysis of the impact of public enterprises on the natural environment and/or living species

RESEARCH FUNDING

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  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 19K06854 to Ida TY (2019-2022)

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17K08182 to Nakashima Y (2017-2020)

  • Japan-Norway Researcher mobility programme FY2013 (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Research Council of Norway) (2013-2014)

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad (2011-2013)

  • Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) Government of Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships 2010-11, CANADA (2010-2011)

  • Global COE Program of Hokkaido University: Funding to visit overseas institutes, Sapporo, JAPAN (2009)

  • Hokkaido University: Funding to research for young researchers, Sapporo, JAPAN (2008)

  • Hokkaido University: Funding to visit overseas institutes, Sapporo, JAPAN (2008)

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Research Fellowships for Young Scientists, JAPAN (2006 – 2008)

HONORS & AWARDS

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  • Ecological Society of Japan: Best Poster Award, Morioka, JAPAN (2009)

  • Ecological Society of Japan: Best Poster Award, Fukuoka, JAPAN (2008)

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

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  1. Ida TY, Kudo G (2021) Seasonal variation in air temperature drives reproductive phenology of entomophilous plants in a cool-temperate mire community. Botany 99: 433-447.

  2. Shiroyama H, Mitoh S, Ida TY, Yusa Y (2020) Adaptive significance of light and food for a kleptoplastic sea slug: implications for photosynthesis. Oecologia 194: 455-463.

  3. Ida TY, Minato E (2020) Multi-cycle synchronous protandry in raceme-like inflorescences of a bumblebee-pollinated herb Aconitum grossedentatum. Plant Ecology 221: 965-978.

  4. Tamura M, Ohgushi T, Ida TY (2020) Intraspecific neighborhood effect: population-level consequence of aggregation of highly-defended plants. Functional Ecology 34: 597-605.

  5. Ida TY, Takanashi K, Tamura M, Ozawa R, Nakashima Y, Ohgushi T (2018) Defensive chemicals of neighboring plants limit visits of herbivorous insects: Associational resistance within a plant population. Ecology and Evolution 8 (24): 12981-12990.

  6. Wada Y, Iwasaki K, Ida TY, Yusa Y (2017) Roles of the seasonal dynamics of ecosystem components in fluctuating indirect interactions on a rocky shore. Ecology 98(4): 1093-1103.

  7. Ikemoto M, Ida TY, Utsumi S, Ohgushi T (2017) Community-wide impacts of early season herbivory on flower visitors on tall goldenrod. Ecological Entomology 42(2): 164-172.

  8. Nakashima Y, Ida TY, Powell W, Birkett M, Taki H, Takabayashi J. (2016) Field evaluation of synthetic aphid sex pheromone in enhancing suppression of aphid abundance by their natural enemies. BioControl 61(5): 485-496.

  9. Ida TY, Harder LD, Kudo G (2015) The consequences of demand-driven seed provisioning for sexual differences in reproductive investment in Thalictrum occidentale (Ranunculaceae). Journal of Ecology103(1): 269-280.

  10. Ida TY, Totland Ø (2014) Heating effect by perianth retention on developing achenes and implications for seed production in the alpine herb Ranunculus glacialis. Alpine Botany 124(1): 37-47.

  11. Kudo G, Ida TY (2013) Early onset of spring increases the phenological mismatch between plants and pollinators. Ecology 94(10): 2311-2320.

  12. Sunmonu N, Ida TY, Kudo G (2013) Photosynthetic compensation by the reproductive structures in the spring ephemeral Gagea lutea. Plant Ecology 214(2): 175–188.

  13. Ida TY, Harder LD, Kudo G (2013) Demand-driven resource investment in annual seed production by a perennial angiosperm precludes resource limitation. Ecology 94(1): 51–61.

  14. Ida TY, Harder LD, Kudo G (2012) Effects of defoliation and shading on the physiological cost of reproduction in silky locoweed, Oxytropis sericea. Annals of Botany 109(1): 237-246.

  15. Ida TY, Kudo G (2010) Seasonal patterns of carbon assimilation and allocation of a summer-green forest herb, Parasenecio auriculata (Senecioneae; Asteraceae). Plant Ecology 210(1): 181-193.

  16. Ida TY, Kudo G (2010) Modification of bumblebee behavior by floral color change and implications for pollen transfer in Weigela middendorffiana. Evolutionary Ecology 24(4): 671–684.

  17. Kudo G, Ida TY (2010) Carbon source for reproduction in a spring ephemeral herb, Corydalis ambigua (Papaveraceae). Functional Ecology 24(1): 62-69.

  18. Ida TY, Kudo G (2009) Comparisons of light utilization and resource allocation strategies between two rhizomatous herbaceous species inhabiting deciduous forests. Journal of Plant Research 122(2): 171-181.

  19. Ida TY, Kudo G (2008) Timing of canopy closure influences carbon translocation and seed production of an understory herb, Trillium apetalon (Trilliaceae). Annals of Botany 101(3): 435-446.

  20. Kudo G, Ida TY, Tani T (2008) Linkages between phenology, pollination, photosynthesis, and plant reproduction in deciduous forest understory plants. Ecology 89(2): 321–331.

  21. Cao G-X, Kudo G, Ida TY (2007) Floral sex allocation of hermaphrodite herb with one-day flowers, Hosta rectifolia (Liliaceae). Plant Species Biology 22(3): 191-196.

  22. Kudo G, Ishii HS, Hirabayashi Y, Ida TY (2007) A test of the pollination effectiveness of floral color change using artificial inflorescences visited by bumblebees. Oecologia 154(1): 119-128.

  23. Ida TY, Kudo G (2003) Floral color change in Weigela middendorffiana (Caprifoliaceae): reduction of geitonogamous pollination by bumble bees. American Journal of Botany 90(12): 1751-1757.

Popular science

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Articles

  1. Ida TY (2009) Ecological significance of floral color change. Seibutsu Kagaku 60(3): 151-158. (In Japanese)

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