Tadashi Fukami is an associate Professor of Biology and community ecologist at Stanford University.[1] He is currently the head of Fukami Lab which is a community ecology research group that focuses on "historical contingency in the assembly of ecological communities."[2] Fukami is an elected Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.[3]

Early life and education

In an interview with Oikos Editorial Office, Fukami explains that even though he grew up near Tokyo, he would visit Wakayama with his family for vacation several times a year, sparking his interest in nature.[4]

Fukami received his Bachelor's degree from Waseda University in 1996, his Master's degree at the University of Tokyo in 1998, and his Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2003.[1][4]

Career and research

Fukami was a postdoctoral fellow at Landcare Research in New Zealand from 2003-2005. He then went on to be an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 2006-2008. He has been at Stanford University since 2008.[4]

Fukami's work has aimed to better understand how patterns of species immigration into communities, including via dispersal, influences community assembly.[5] In 2019, he was elected as a fellow to the Ecological Society of America for his "contributions to advancing community, ecosystem, and evolutionary ecology through a novel focus on historical contingency in community assembly".[3] His work has also explored how historical contingency and priority effects influences the function as well as the structure of ecological communities.[6][7]

Notable publications

Fukami's research on community ecology, community assembly, alternate stable states and historical contingency has been published in multiple academic journals. Below, some of his most-cited papers are listed.[8]

Selected publications

Honors and awards

Awards include:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Tadashi Fukami's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  2. ^ "Research interests". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  3. ^ a b c "ESA Fellows – The Ecological Society of America". Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  4. ^ a b c "Welcome Tadashi Fukami, new SE". www.oikosjournal.org. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  5. ^ "Bug Squad - Agriculture and Natural Resources Blogs". ANR Blogs. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  6. ^ Tanentzap, AJ (2016-10-17). "Editor's Choice 104:6 – New Zealand's plant priorities". Journal of Ecology Blog. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  7. ^ "The unseen power of tiny ecosystems". Scienceline. 2019-02-13. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  8. ^ "Tadashi Fukami's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  9. ^ McFall-Ngai, Margaret; Hadfield, Michael G.; Bosch, Thomas C. G.; Carey, Hannah V.; Domazet-Lošo, Tomislav; Douglas, Angela E.; Dubilier, Nicole; Eberl, Gerard; Fukami, Tadashi; Gilbert, Scott F.; Hentschel, Ute (2013-02-26). "Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (9): 3229–3236. Bibcode:2013PNAS..110.3229M. doi:10.1073/pnas.1218525110. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3587249. PMID 23391737.
  10. ^ Nemergut, Diana R.; Schmidt, Steven K.; Fukami, Tadashi; O'Neill, Sean P.; Bilinski, Teresa M.; Stanish, Lee F.; Knelman, Joseph E.; Darcy, John L.; Lynch, Ryan C.; Wickey, Phillip; Ferrenberg, Scott (2013-09-01). "Patterns and Processes of Microbial Community Assembly". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 77 (3): 342–356. doi:10.1128/MMBR.00051-12. ISSN 1092-2172. PMC 3811611. PMID 24006468.
  11. ^ Fukami, Tadashi (2015-12-04). "Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects". Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 46 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110411-160340. ISSN 1543-592X.
  12. ^ Fukami, Tadashi; Bezemer, T. Martijn; Mortimer, Simon R.; Putten, Wim H. van der (2005). "Species divergence and trait convergence in experimental plant community assembly". Ecology Letters. 8 (12): 1283–1290. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00829.x. ISSN 1461-0248.
  13. ^ Fukami, Tadashi; Dickie, Ian A.; Wilkie, J. Paula; Paulus, Barbara C.; Park, Duckchul; Roberts, Andrea; Buchanan, Peter K.; Allen, Robert B. (2010). "Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities". Ecology Letters. 13 (6): 675–684. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01465.x. ISSN 1461-0248. PMID 20412280.
  14. ^ Fukami, Tadashi; Wardle, David A (2005-10-22). "Long-term ecological dynamics: reciprocal insights from natural and anthropogenic gradients". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 272 (1577): 2105–2115. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3277. PMC 1559953. PMID 16191623.
  15. ^ "Awards". www.amnat.org. Retrieved 2020-12-18.

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