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NAKAMURA, Koh / 中村　剛

Theme Plants designated as endangered species in one country are not all national endemics and distributed in neighboring countries. Nevertheless, traditional conservation programs are usually confined to national boundaries. To effectively conserve nationally endangered plants that have conspecific populations abroad, transnational conservation program through international collaboration is vitally needed. My lab aims to resolve phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic confusion of endangered plants in Hokkaido and vicinities across national borders, to develop logical plans for in-situ/ex-situ conservation based on genetic and ecological surveys, and to practice ex-situ conservation in botanic gardens and establish transnational conservation network among countries.
Contact Me koh@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp
Message My lab is located within Hokkaido University Botanic Garden and equipped with nurseries, greenhouses, a herbarium, and a molecular lab, that students have access to for their studies. In addition to conservation research described above, my lab focuses on plant taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography (floristic biogeography and molecular phylogeography). I welcome applications from potential graduate students worldwide.
References
  1. Koh Nakamura, Goro Kokubugata, Ken Sato. 2020. The first record of the genus Vitex (Lamiaceae) from Hokkaido, northern Japan. Journal of Phytogeography and Taxonomy 68: in press.
  2. Saya Tamura, Tomoko Fukuda, Elena A. Pimenova, Ecaterina A. Petrunenko, Pavel V. Krestov, Svetlana N. Bondarchuk, Olga A. Chernyagina, Yoshihisa Suyama, Yoshihiro Tsunamoto, Ayumu Matsuo, Hayato Tsuboi, Hideki Takahashi, Ken Sato, Yoko Nishikawa, Takashi Shimamura, Hiroko Fujita, Koh Nakamura*. 2018. Molecular and cytological evidences denied the immediate-hybrid hypothesis for Saxifraga yuparensis (sect. Bronchiales, Saxifragaceae) endemic to Mt. Yubari in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Phytotaxa 373: 53–70.
  3. Koh Nakamura, Tetsuo Denda, Goro Kokubugata, Chiun-Jr Huang, Ching-I Peng, Masatsugu Yokota. 2015. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Viola iwagawae-tashiroi species complex (Violaceae, section Plagiostigma) endemic to the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Plant Systematics and Evolution 301: 337–351.
  4. Koh Nakamura, Shih-Wen Chung, Yoshiko Kono, Meng-Jung Ho, Tian-Chuan Hsu, Ching-I Peng. 2014. Ixeridium calcicola (Compositae), a new limestone endemic from Taiwan, with notes on its atypical basic chromosome number, phylogenetic affinities, and a limestone refugium hypothesis. PLOS ONE 9: e109797.
  5. Koh Nakamura, Goro Kokubugata, Rosario Rivera Rubite, Chiun-Jr Huang, Yoshiko Kono, Hsun-An Yang, Auriea Lopez-Feliciano, Mina L. Labuguen, Masatsugu Yokota, Ching-I Peng. 2014. In situ glacial survival in the northern limit of tropical insular Asia by a lowland herb Begonia fenicis (Begoniaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 174: 305–325.
Projects

  1. Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan support project to promote conservation of biological diversity. Ex-situ conservation of genetic diversity in Sagittaria natans from Hokkaido and other areas. 2019–2021.

  2. Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan support project to promote conservation of biological diversity. Ex-situ conservation of genetic diversity in Callianthemum kirigishiense endemic to Mt. Kirigishi, Hokkaido. 2018–2020.

  3. Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Testing of endemicity and population differentiation of designated endangered plants of Hokkaido in comparison with allied species from Russian Far East, and conservation proposal. 2016–2019.

  4. Research grant from the Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund. Transnational conservation of endangered plants in Northeast Asia, using critically endangered species in Hokkaido as model cases. 2016–2018.
Link

Lab website
ReaD Link https://researchmap.jp/kohnakamura/?lang=en
NAKAMURA, Koh