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  • Tezuka S, Tanaka M, Naganuma T, Tochigi K, Inagaki A, Myojo H, Yamazaki K, Allen M, Koike S. 2023. Comparing information derived on food habits of a terrestrial carnivore between animal-borne video systems and fecal analyses methods. Journal of Mammalogy 104: 184-193.
  • Takayama K, Ohnishi N, Zedrosser A, Anezaki T, Tochigi K, Inagaki A, Naganauma T, Yamazaki K, Koike S. 2023. Timing and distance of natal dispersal in Asian black bears. Journal of Mammalogy 104: 265-278.
  • Tanaka M, Baek S, Tochigi K, Naganuma T, Inagaki A, Dewi BS, Koike S. 2023. Conditions affecting ant nesting in stumps in a temperate coniferous planted forest. Forest Ecology and Management 537: 120976.
  • Baek S, Shimazaki A, Zedrosser A, Naganuma T, Kozakai C, Yamazaki K, Koike S. 2023. Response to human-modified landscape of an apex consumer: Sex- and season-related variations in road selection and movement pattern. Global Ecology and Conservation 46: e02603.
  • Inagaki A, Allen M, Maruyama T, Tochigi K, Koike S. 2023. Evidence for interspecific modulation of carcass consumption among facultative scavengers in Asian temperate forest. Food webs 37: e00324.
  • Takada H, Washida A, Yano R, Tezuka N, Minami M. 2023. Evolution from monogamy to polygyny: insights from the solitary Japanese serow. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77: 3
  • Hayato Takada*, Akiyoshi Sato, Setsuko Katsuta 2023.Seasonal diets of two rhinolophid bats Rhinolophus nippon and Rhinolophus cornutus in the Southern Japanese Alps.
  • Kahoko Tochigi, Sam M.J.G. Steyaert, Keita Fukasawa, Misako Kuroe,Tomoko Anezaki, Tomoko Naganuma, Chinatsu Kozakai, Akino Inagaki, Koji Yamazaki, Shinsuke Koike 2023.Demographic Parameters of Asian Black Bears in Central Japan.Mammal Study.
  • Takada H*, Nakamura K 2023 Overlap in habitat use and activity patterns between sika deer (Cervus nippon) and Japanese serows (Capricornis crispus) in subalpine habitats: exploitative competition rather than direct interference? Canadian Journal of Zoology.
  • Takada H*, Yano R, Watanabe H, Ohuchi R, Kanno T, Washida A, Nakamura K, Tezuka N, Shimodoumae D, Minami M 2023 Behavioural interactions between sika deer and Japanese serows: are larger and gregarious ungulate dominant? Behaviour.
  • Sato K, Goto Y, Koike S (2023) Seed attachment by epizoochory depends on animal fur, body height, and plant phenology. Acta Oecologia.
  • Hiruma M, Takada H, Wasida A, Koike S. in press. Dietary partitioning and competition between sika deer and Japanese serows in high elevation habitats. Mammal Research.
  • Takada H. Unique spatial behavior of the Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) in the open mountains of Mt. Fuji . Acta Ethologica.
  • Hori M, Takada H, Nakane Y, Minami M, Inoue E. in press. Genetic analysis reveals dispersal patterns of Japanese serow in two different habitats of a mountainous region. Zoological Science
  • Morosawa, T. 2023. Synchronous decline of native bitterling population detected from 9 years survey in rivers and agricultural ditches around Lake Kasumigaura, Japan. Ichthyological Research 70:368–377.
  • Akashi N, Unno A, Uno H. 2022. The browsing ratio as an index of the impact of deer browsing on tree seedlings. Trees, Forests and People 8.
  • Allen M, Krofel M, Yamazaki K, Alexander EP, Koike S. 2022. Cannibalism in bears. Ursus 33: e10.
  • Ando K, Yoshikawa T, Kozakai C, Yamazaki K, Naganuma T, Inagaki A, Koike S. 2022. Composite brownian walks best explain the movement patterns of Asian black bears, irrespective of sex, seasonality and food availability. Ecological Research 37: 522-531.
  • Hiruma M, Tochigi K, Kishimoto R, Kuroe M, Trentin EB, Koike S. 2022. Long-term stability in the winter diet of the Japanese serow. Zookeys 1122: 39-51.
  • Inagaki A, Allen M, Maruyama T, Yamazaki K, Tochigi K, Naganuma T, Koike S. 2022. Carcass detection and consumption by facultative scavengers in forest ecosystem highlights the value of their ecosystem services. Scientific Reports 12: 16451.
  • Inatomi Y, Uno H, Ueno M, Takafumi H, Osa Y. 2022. Response of an indicator species, Dryopteris crassirhizoma, to temporal and spatial variations in sika deer density. Biology, 11, 302.
  • Jimbo M, Ishinazaka T, Shirane Y, Umemura Y, Yamanaka M, Uno H, Sashika M, Tsubota T, Shimozuru M. 2022. Diet selection and social learning: natal habitat influence on lifelong foraging strategies in solitary large mammals. Ecosphere 13:e4105.
  • Kawamura K, Jimbo M, Adachi K, Shirane Y, Nakanishi M, Umemura Y, Ishinazaka T, Uno H, Sashika M, Tsubota T, Shimozuru M. 2022. Diel and monthly activity pattern of brown bear and sika deer in the Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan. The journal of Veterinary Medical Science 84(8): 1146-1156.">
  • Koike S, Tochigi K, Yamazaki K. 2023. Are seeds of trees with higher fruit production dispersed farther by frugivorous mammals? Journal of Forest Research 28: 64-72.
  • Naganuma T, Nakashita R, Tochigi K, Zedrosser A, Kozakai C, Yamazaki K, Koike S. 2022. Functional dietary response of Asian black bears to changes in sika deer density. Journal of Wildlife Management 86: e22218.
  • Oki K, Soga M, Amano T, Koike S. 2022. Abandonment of ski pistes impoverishes butterfly communities. Biodiversity and Conservation 31: 2083-2096.
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  • Osugi S, Baek S, Naganuma T, Tochigi K, Allen M, Koike S. 2022. The effect of decreasing human activity from COVID-19 on the foraging of fallen-fruit by omnivores. Ecology and Evolution 12: e9657.
  • Osugi S, Trenti EB, Koike S. 2022. Effects of human activity on the fallen-fruit foraging behavior of Carnivora in an urban forest. Mammal Study 47: 113-123.
  • Takada H, Minami M. 2022. A preliminary study on habitat selection of the Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) at two temporal scales, season and time of day, in a montane forest. Journal of Ethology 40: 91-95.
  • Takada H, Sato A, Katsuta S. 2022. Food habits of two species of tube-nosed bats, Murina hilgendorfi and Murina ussuriensis, in Hayakawa, central Japan. Animal Biology 72: 1-13.
  • Takada H, Washida A, Yano R, Tezuka N, Minami M. in press. Evolution from monogamy to polygyny: insights from the solitary Japanese serow. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
  • Takayama K, Ohnishi N, Zedrosser A, Anezaki T, Tochigi K, Inagaki A, Naganauma T, Yamazaki K, Koike S. in press. Timing and distance of natal dispersal in Asian black bears. Journal of Mammalogy.
  • Taniwaki T, Watanabe K, Komine H, Tochigi K, Yamane M, Koike S. 2022. Response of specialist and generalist predators to nonprogressive annual fluctuations in herbivorous insect population. Biological Control 165: 104810.
  • Tezuka S, Tanaka M, Naganuma T, Tochigi K, Inagaki A, Myojo H, Yamazaki K, Allen M, Koike S. in press. Comparing information derived on food habits of a terrestrial carnivore between animal-borne video systems and fecal analyses methods. Journal of Mammalogy.
  • Tochigi K, Steyaert S, Naganuma T, Yamazaki K, Koike S. 2022. Differentiation and seasonality in suitable microsites of seed dispersal by an assemblage of omnivorous mammals. Global Ecology and Conservation 40: e02335.