Ichiro Matsuzaki

More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation Forests regulate global and local climates in ways that impact human well-being. In this Review, we discuss the scale-dependent mechanisms through which forests regulate climate, highlighting their co...

In a new #ScienceAnalyticalReview, researchers discuss the scale-dependent mechanisms through which forests regulate climate, highlighting their contributions to global mitigation and local adaptation.

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Long‐Term Records Reveal Temperature‐Driven Nutrient Limitation and Predict Intensified Algal Blooms in Global Lakes This graphical abstract illustrates the analytical framework and key outcomes of each step used to investigate the temperature–nutrient regulation of harmful algal blooms in global lakes. (A) Multi-y...

Our new paper is published in Global Change Biology. Using long-term global lake dataset, we found temperature-driven nutrient limitation on algal bloom in lakes.

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Tamario et al. 2025. Barriers decouple population dynamics of riverine fish, and asynchrony of subpopulations promotes stability within fragments. Royal B

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On the Brink of Extinction? Special Edition: Is Climate Change Driving the The Earth has suffered five mass extinctions. Human activities are now accelerating climate change and the threat of the

On the Brink of Extinction? Special Edition: Is Climate Change Driving the "Sixth Mass Extinction"?
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Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River China’s rapid economic development has triggered an unparalleled freshwater biodiversity crisis since the 1950s. To restore fisheries resources, the Yangtze River Fishing Ban was implemented in 2021 t...

Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A collaboration with Yushun Chen, Seb Brosse, @sjcfishy.bsky.social and other! @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social

Body Size and Local Density Explain Movement Patterns in Stream Fishes We evaluated whether body size (intrinsic) and intra- and interspecific densities (extrinsic) have an impact on the movement rates of four fish species in a small stream. We found that larger individ....

New paper out from our group - Body Size and Local Density Explain Movement Patterns in Stream Fishes - LaRoque - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I joined online! Thank you very much for the amazing presentation, Fukami-san! I was really interested in biculture and two-eyed seeing.

諏訪湖で「御神渡り」現れず８季連続「明けの海」、戦国時代の最長記録に５１２年ぶりに並ぶ 【読売新聞】　長野県の諏訪湖の結氷状況を観察している同県諏訪市の 八剱 （ やつるぎ ） 神社の宮坂清宮司（７５）は立春の４日、今季は結氷した湖面がせり上がる「 御神渡 （ おみわた ） り」が現れない「明けの海」になったと宣言した

Hi Sapna @sapnasharma.bsky.social,

Lake Suwa was fully frozen on January 26, but temperatures increased soon afterward.

Yesterday, Shinto priests declared Akenoumi (meaning the lake failed to remain frozen), indicating that Omiwatari did not occur this winter.

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Map showing projected changes to the Chesapeake Bay area due to sea level rise.

The fast-sinking Chesapeake Bay region offers a window into future scenarios for tidal wetlands.

Learn more on #WorldWetlandsDay: https://scim.ag/4aayxov

High-precision tracking of human foragers reveals adaptive social information use in the wild Foraging complexity and competitive social challenges are considered key drivers of human cognition. Yet, the decision-making mechanisms that underlie social foraging in the real world remain unknown....

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Schakowski et al. 2026. High-precision tracking of human foragers reveals adaptive social information use in the wild. Science

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Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Kustra et a. 2026. Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice. Functional Ecology

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Carey et al. 2026. High-frequency monitoring data reveal substantial variability in the intrinsic predictability of ecosystem dynamics. Ecology
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I’m studying at a cafe this morning by reading papers that I has accumulated in my backpack. This review paper is really interesting!

I'm just jumping into the Thermal Ecology Alliance led by @patricepottier.bsky.social et al.

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Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global!

🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org

40 years ago, there would have likely been no birds here because there was no water flooded on these fields in the winter.

Farmers help conservation much more than people realize. AND...they often can and want to do more! #ThisIsTheWay 👏

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Riascos et al. 2025. Beyond Abiotic Decay: Fiddler Crabs Accelerate Plastic Fragmentation in Pollution Hotspots. Global Change Biology
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Matching climate to biological scales Recent advances in climate modeling and remote sensing have increased the expectation that finer-grained climate data will improve biological relevance. However, the appropriate scale for biology depends on the system and the question posed, and finer-grained data do not always improve inference in ecology and evolution. In this review we synthesize knowledge from micrometeorology, physiology, and landscape ecology to develop a framework integrating climatic and biological lenses for understanding the scales of climate exposure. This framework can aid multiscale investigation of microclimate effects on individuals, populations, and communities. We newly conceptualize systems of climate scale, provide recommendations for trait-based approaches to determine the scales relevant to climate–biology interactions, and highlight opportunities offered by novel methods and technologies.

Online now: Matching climate to biological scales

Our review outlining how we can better use climate data for understanding ecology and evolution— now published in TREE! I’ll give it a rundown after the holidays.

It was a real pleasure to participate in the Mazama Newt Workshop at Crater Lake hosted by the @oregonzoo.bsky.social and the National Park Service. Discussions focused on a recovery plan for the Mazama newt in light of an exploding invasive signal crayfish. Great to see @ericrlarson.bsky.social!

A global estimator of C and N isotope baselines for fresh waters Baselines are the pebbles in the shoes of isotope ecologists. The extreme variability of the isotope composition of resources at the base of food webs governs the spatial differences of consumers'...

hot off the press! Led by the mighty Marie Perga, including many members of the Fooδ-webs team, and kindly funded by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity/CESAB

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Unraveling multipredator impacts in salmon-bearing rivers using quantitative DNA metabarcoding. A wonderful collaboration with @jwinkfish.bsky.social.

@uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwfreshwater.bsky.social

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Jim taking a selfie Le with charles Goldman.

Had a great time connecting with my PhD advisor, the legendary CR Goldman. Recently turned 95 yrs young.

Tonight I watched this movie CODA. What a beautiful and heartwarming movie I’ve never seen before! Must watch it but please do so without getting any information! This is an Academy Award-winning film (2022).

A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease Nature - Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, managing ecosystem health, and preventing biological invasions and biodiversity loss could help to reduce the burden of plant, animal and human diseases,...

A reminder: Biodiversity loss, climate change, and species invasions are among the top environmental drivers of infectious disease outbreaks.
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This auto-sampler can be applied to lake ecosystems!!

Development of a moored radium in situ sampler to measure annual time series. LO Methods.

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Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Our institute created this great YouTube Movie in English!

How Did Japan’s Largest Salmonid Become Endangered?
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Sakhalin taimen (Parahucho perryi) is a Critically Endangered species on the IUCN Red List and has been suffering from X. Please check it out!

This is the homepage of the Center for Limnology at UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social , where I was a visiting scientist from 2018 to 2019.

I love the new slogan, “Global leadership, local impacts.”

I hope to walk on the ice of Lake Mendota again someday!

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This is interesting for us depending on rice paddy fields.

Rose et al. 2025. Rice cultivation supports growth and survival of a threatened semi-aquatic reptile. Ecology
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