Course title
森林立地学   [Forest Environment]
Course category		Requirement		Credit	2
Department		Year	3～	Semester	3rd
Course type	3rd	Course code	01RN3243
Instructor(s)
戸田 浩人   [TODA Hiroto]
Facility affiliation	Faculty of Agriculture	Office	1-416	Email address

Course description

“Right tree for right site” is the basic theory for forestry management. The objective of this course is to learn fundamental concepts of forest soils and their relationships to forest communities and forest ecosystems. And then this is to develop an understanding of the biogeochemical and physical properties of forest soils in relation to forest environment and forest management practices. Students will learn forest soil forming process and classification, physicochemical and biological properties of soil, and their research methods. And then you will learn organic matter decomposition, stream water quality, and nutrients uptake of trees.

Expected Learning

Students need to gain knowledge of forest soil properties and research methods. And you need to gain ability to assess forest soil and site quality.

Course schedule

1. Introduction: forest environment and soil 2. Forest soil formation 1: influence of environments on soil forming 3. Forest soil formation 2: topography and forest soil 4. Forest soil formation 3: climatic index and zonal soil 5. Soil classification 1: soil groups and soil type of Japan 6. Soil classification 2: soil profile and research methods 7. Report discussion: characteristics of forest soil in Japan 8. Forest soil physiology 1: three phases of soil, soil particle etc. 9. Forest soil physiology 2: soil water, soil gus etc. 10. Forest soil chemistry 1: soil acidity, soil colloid etc. 11. Forest soil chemistry 2: soil water quality, site environment etc. 12. Soil organism: soil fauna, soil microbe, mycorrhiza, root nodule etc. 13. Nutrients uptake: relationships to forest communities and soil 14. Organic matter decomposition: relationships to nutrients dynamics in forest soil 15. Stream water quality: biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling

Prerequisites

Associated classes: Forest Ecology, Silviculture, Practice on Silviculture, Experiments and Practice on Forest Soil In addition to 30 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University and using the lecture handouts as well as the references specified below. I assign preparations for lessons every class to develop an understanding of topics of our course. The quizzes will be given in each class. The report will be assigned at the middle of the course.

Required Text(s) and Materials

The handouts will be provided.

References

Fisher, R.F. and D. Binkley. 2000. Ecology and Management of Forest Soils. Third edition. John Wiley and Sons, New York. And, please see the syllabus in Japanese version.

Assessment/Grading

Final examination 50%, Report at the middle of the course 20%, Preparation report 20%, Quizzes 10% Note: Students who attend less than 70% of this course can not get this credit. The past results 2018　S：29％　A：18％　B：35％　C：12％　D：6％ 2017　S：17％　A：28％　B：17％　C：28％　D：10％ 2016　S：13％　A：29％　B：23％　C：19％　D：16％

Message from instructor(s)

Your questions are welcomed about the topics of this course. When you do not understand contents of my lecture, you first look it up in the textbooks and references. If you still do not understand, please ask me directly or with a comment card or by email.

Course keywords

Soil classification, Soil physicochemical properties, Nutrients cycle in forest ecosystem, Biogeochemistry, Organic matter decomposition

Office hours

Please make an appointment by email.

Remarks 1

This course belongs to the package of forest environment. And this is a required course of the Forest Science program.

Remarks 2

I will show a detailed class schedule by the first class.

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Lecture Language

Japanese

Language Subject

Last update

3/11/2019 9:34:00 AM