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]
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'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
McFall-Ngai, M., Hadfield, M.G., Bosch, T.C., Carey, H.V., Domazet-Lošo, T., Douglas, A.E., Dubilier, N., Eberl, G., Fukami, T., Gilbert, S.F. and Hentschel, U., 2013. Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(9), pp.3229-3236.[9]
Nemergut, D.R., Schmidt, S.K., Fukami, T., O'Neill, S.P., Bilinski, T.M., Stanish, L.F., Knelman, J.E., Darcy, J.L., Lynch, R.C., Wickey, P. and Ferrenberg, S., 2013. Patterns and processes of microbial community assembly. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 77(3), pp.342-356.[10]
Fukami, T., 2015. Historical contingency in community assembly: integrating niches, species pools, and priority effects. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 46, pp.1-23.[11]
Fukami, T., Martijn Bezemer, T., Mortimer, S.R. and van der Putten, W.H., 2005. Species divergence and trait convergence in experimental plant community assembly. Ecology letters, 8(12), pp.1283-1290.[12]
Fukami, T., Dickie, I.A., Paula Wilkie, J., Paulus, B.C., Park, D., Roberts, A., Buchanan, P.K. and Allen, R.B., 2010. Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities. Ecology letters, 13(6), pp.675-684.[13]
Fukami, T. and Wardle, D.A., 2005. Long-term ecological dynamics: reciprocal insights from natural and anthropogenic gradients. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272(1577), pp.2105-2115.[14]
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