Name

YAMANAKA, Takehiko

Position

Senior Researcher

Contact

Phone: +81-29-838-8253
E-mail: apple(a)affrc.go.jp (Please type by hand)

Education

B.A. Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Japan 1995
M.S. Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Japan 1997
Ph.D. Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Japan 2000
Exchange visitor (Pos-Doc), The Pennsylvania State University (Working with Prof. Bjørnstad, http://www.ento.psu.edu/Personnel/Faculty/bjornstad.htm) 2005-2006

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Research Activities & Interests

I' m a quantitative ecologist and am analyzing field data using statistical techniques and simulation models. The main aim of my research is constructing “management” strategies for insect populations. My concept of “management” includes both conservation for desirable insects' communities and insect pest controls.

Now I'm participating an international working group “Towards a Theory of Plant Pest Eradication” in NCEAS, Santa Barbra, CA (http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/). Dr. Liebhold in USDA (http://www.sandyliebhold.com/) and I also have set up a special feature: “Mate-Location Failure, Allee Effects and the Establishment of Invading Populations” in Population Ecology, Jul. 2009. Please check it! (http://www.springer.com/life+sci/ecology/journal/10144)

Relevant publications

Yamanaka, T., and Liebhold, A. M. (2009) Spatially implicit approaches to understand the manipulation of mating success for insect invasion management. Population Ecology: 427-444
Yamanaka, T., and Liebhold, A. M. (2009) Mate-location failure, Allee effects and the establishment of invading populations. Population Ecology: 337-340
Yamanaka, T., Tanaka, K., Hamasaki, K., Nakatani, Y., Iwasaki, N. and Sprague, D. S. and Bjørnstad, O. N. (2009) Evaluating the relative importance of patch quality and connectivity in a damselfly metapopulation from a one-season survey. Oikos 118: 67-76
Hamasaki, K., Yamanaka, T., Tanaka, K., Nakatani, Y., Iwasaki, N. and Sprague, D. S. (2009) Relative importance of within-habitat environment, land use and spatial autocorrelations for determining odonate assemblages in rural reservoir ponds in Japan. Ecological Research 24: 597-605
Tanaka K, Yamanaka, T. (2009) Factors affecting flight activity of Ophraella communa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), an exotic insect in Japan. Environmental Entomology 38: 235-241
Yamanaka T, Tatsuki S, Shimada M (2008) Adaptation to the new land or effect of global warming? - An age-structured model for rapid voltinism change in an alien lepidopteran pest. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 585-596
Yamanaka, T. (2007) Mating disruption or mass trapping? Numerical simulation analysis of a control strategy for lepidopteran pests. Population Ecology 49: 75-86
Yamanaka, T., Tanaka, K., Otuka, A. and Bjørnstad, O. (2007) Detecting spatial interactions in the ragweed (Ambrosia artemissifolia L.) and the ragweed beetle (Ophraella communa LeSage) populations. Ecological Research 22: 185-196 (Recipient of the Ecological Research Award, 2007)
Yamanaka, T., Tatsuki, S. and Shimada, M. (2003) An individual-based model for sex-pheromone-oriented flight patterns of male moths in a local area.. Ecological Modelling 161: 35-51
Watari, Y., Yamanaka, T., Asano, W. and Ishikawa, Y. (2002) Prediction of the life cycle of the west Japan type yellow-spotted longicorn beetle, Psacothea hilaris (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) by numerical simulations. Appl. Entomol. Zool. 37(4): 559-569