Akihiro Nakamura (中村彰宏)，男, 博士，1977年11月生, 日本人, 国家自然科学基金获得者。现任中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园研究员，博士生导师，中国科学院热带森林生态学重点实验室林冠生态学研究组组长。
主要从事群落生态学，昆虫学，生物多样性保护方面的研究。先后承担完成了国家自然科学基金国际（地区）合作与交流项目、国家自然科学基金面上项目、云南省高层次人才引进计划项目、中国科学院国际合作项目等12余项；在国内外核心刊物上发表学术论文80余篇，其中SCI刊物上发表70余篇。获得云南省云南省高端外国专家（2019年）、云南省外国专家彩云奖（2019年）、日本生态学会大岛奖（2022年）、中国昆虫学会第一届外籍杰出昆虫学者（2022年）。
在林冠生态学和生物多样性保护方面取得了突出成绩，主要包括以下几个方面：
（1）采用多种生态学研究方法来研究自然和人为干扰生境下的生物多样性及其生态系统过程，并通过在斑块化热带雨林与橡胶地进行跨海拔梯度的昆虫调查，以期了解不同气候条件下（温度随海拔升高而降低）人为干扰对生物多样性的影响。
（2）不同海拔带分布的昆虫是研究“气候变化影响”的重要指示物种。经研究发现人为干扰对未来气候变化的影响至关重要，相关研究成果提供了保护生物多样性和减轻人为干扰影响的方法。
联系方式
E-mail: a.nakamura@xtbg.ac.cn
学历
l2002.2－2008.4: 格里菲斯大学（澳大利亚），获得理学博士学位
l2000.4－2001.4: 格里菲斯大学（澳大利亚），获得一等荣誉理学学士学位
l1997.2－2000.4：格里菲斯大学（澳大利亚）理学学士。
近十年主持或承担的科研项目
l2022-2025年：国家自然科学基金国际（地区）合作与交流项目（组织间合作研究—NSFC-RGC（内地-香港））（32161160324）: 植物挥发性有机物（BVOCs）对林冠和林下层营养级间相互作用的影响题目,项目负责人，经费99.3万元
l2020年-2022年：中国科学院国际合作项目：中国科学院国际人才计划 (PIFI) 国际博士后项目，专家姓名: Benjamin D. Blanchard，项目负责人, 经费总额：52万元.
l2020年-2022年：云南省高层次人才引进计划项目，项目负责人, 经费：150万元.
l2020-2021年：全球生物多样性信息基金会（GBIF）亚洲生物多样性信息基金项目（BIFA）：生态数据监测动员补助金（BIFA5_026）,项目负责人，经费14127 Euro (11.3万元)
l2018-2021年：国家自然科学基金面上项目 (31770472), 跨纬度林冠与林下昆虫多样性系统比较研究题目,项目负责人，经费60万元
l2017-2019年：中国科学院东南亚中心重点领域拓展计划 (Y4ZK111B01), 东南亚林冠和林下昆虫跨纬度和海拔梯度的Beta多样性研究题目,项目负责人，经费40万元
l2017-2018年：国家自然科学基金国际（地区）合作交流项目 (31650110437), Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning along elevational gradients within fragmented landscapes: implications for climate change题目,项目负责人，经费39.2万元
社会兼职
l《Biodiversity and Conservation》编委（斯普林格， Q1）（2016年~）
l《Integrative Conservation》编委（威利 Wiley）（2022年~）
l《Frontiers in Forests and Global Change》专辑编委（Frontiers）（2020年~）
l《Forests》专辑编委（MDPI）（2024年~）
获奖情况
l2022年获 日本生态学会大岛奖奖(排名第1)
l2022年获 中国昆虫学会第一届外籍杰出昆虫学者(排名第1)
l2019年获 云南省高端外国专家(排名第1) 证书号：YNQR-GDWG-2019-005
l2019年获 云南省外国专家彩云奖(排名第1) 证书号：1953004
近十年发表主要学术论文
1. Alcantara, M. J. M., A. M. Fontanilla, L. A. Ashton, C. J. Burwell, M. Cao, H. Han, H. Huang, R. L. Kitching, A. Reshchikov, X. Shen, Y. Tang, Y. Wan, Z. Xu, and A. Nakamura*. 2024. Bugs and Bergmann’s rule: a cross-taxon large-scale study reveals idiosyncratic altitudinal and latitudinal body size patterns for different insect taxa. Entomologia Generalis. in press. 10.1127/entomologia/2024/2246. (IF = 6.9, Top 2 in entomology)
2. Nimalrathna, T. S., Solina, I. D., Mon, A. M., Pomoim, N., Bhadra, S., Zvereva, E. L., Sam, K., Nakamura, A.* 2023. Estimating predation pressure in ecological studies: controlling bias imposed by using sentinel plasticine prey. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 171: 56-67.
3. Nimalrathna, T. S., Fan, H., Quan, R., Nakamura, A.*. 2023. Enhancing the dung beetle iDNA tool for mammalian biodiversity monitoring and ecological studies. Integrative Conservation. 2: 133–139.
4. Yang, R. M., Hu, S. J., Blanchard, B. D. and Nakamura, A.*. 2022. The local ecological knowledge of butterfly diversity is derived from utilitarian purposes in Southwest China’s biodiversity hotspot. Biodiversity and Conservation. 31:1927–1943. (IF = 3.4, Q1 in biodiversity and conservation)
5. Panthee, S., Ashton, L. A., Tani, A., Sharma B., Nakamura, A.*. 2022. Mechanical Branch Wounding Alters the BVOC Emission Patterns of Ficus Plants. Forests. 13: 1931.
6. Nakamura, A.*, Ashton, L. A., Scheffers, B. R., Kitching, R. L. 2022. Editorial: Understanding patterns and mechanisms of forest canopy diversity and ecosystem functions in a changing world. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5:944981. (IF = 3.2, Q1 in forestry)
7. Nakamura, A., Kitching, R. L., Cao, M., Creedy, T. J., Fayle, T. M., Freiberg, M., Hewitt, C. N., Itioka, T., Koh, L. P., Ma, K., Malhi Y., Mitchell, A., Novotny, V., Ozanne, C. M. P., Song, L., Wang, H., and Ashton, L. A.* 2017. Forests and their canopies: achievements and horizons in canopy science. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 32: 438-451. (IF = 16.8, Top 1 in ecology)
8. Liu, X., Wang, Z., Huang, C., Li, L., Bibi, F., Zhou, S. and Nakamura, A.* 2020. Ant assemblage composition explains high predation pressure on artificial caterpillars during early night. Ecological Entomology. 45: 547-554.
9. Alcantara, M. J. M., Modi, S., Ling, T. C., Monkai, J., Xu, H., Huang, S. and Nakamura, A.* 2019. Differences in geographic distribution of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) between forests and rubber plantations: a case study in Xishuangbanna, China, and a global meta-analysis. Myrmecological News. 29:135-145.
10. Fontanilla, A. M., Nakamura, A.*, Xu, Z., Cao, M., Kitching, R. L., Tang, Y. and Burwell, C. J. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, Subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects. 10:128.
11. Xing, S., Bonebrake, T. C., Ashton, L. A., Kitching, R. L., Min, C., Zhenhua, S., Ho, J. C. and C. Nakamura, A.* 2018. Colors of night: climate-morphology relationships of geometrid moths along spatial gradients in southwestern China. Oecologia. 188: 537-546.
12. Cheng, W., Xing, S., Chen, Y., Lin, R., Bonebrake, T. C. and Nakamura, A.* 2018. Dark butterflies camouflaged from predation in dark tropical forest understories. Ecological Entomology. 43:304-309.
13. Staunton, K. M., Nakamura, A.*, Burwell, C. J., Robson, S. K. A. and Williams, S. E. 2016. Elevational distribution of flightless ground beetles in the tropical rainforests of north-eastern Australia. PLoS ONE. 11: e0155826.
14. Ashton, L., Nakamura, A.*, Burwell, C. J., Huang, H., Tang, Y., Cao, M., Whitaker, T., Sun, Z. H. and Kitching, R. L. 2016. Elevational sensitivity in an Asian ‘hotspot’: moth diversity across elevational gradients in tropical, sub-tropical and sub-alpine China. Scientific Reports. 6: 26513.
15. Burwell, C. J. and Nakamura, A.* 2016. Can changes in ant diversity along elevational gradients in tropical and subtropical Australian rainforests be used to detect a signal of past lowland biotic attrition? Austral Ecology. 41: 209-218.
16. Nakamura, A.*, Burwell, C. J., Ashton, L. A., Laidlaw, M. J., Katabuchi, M., Cao, M. and Kitching, R. L. 2016. Identifying indicator species of elevational gradients: comparing utilities of woody plants, ants and moths for long-term monitoring. Austral Ecology. 41: 179- 188.
17. Ashton, L., Nakamura, A.*, Basset, Y., Burwell, C. J., Cao, M., Eastwood, R., Odell, E., Gama de Oliveria, E., Hurley, K., Katabuchi, M., Maunsell, S. C., McBroom, J., Schmidl, J., Sun, Z. H., Tang, Y., Whitaker, T., Laidlaw, M. J., McDonald, W. J. F. and Kitching, R. L. 2016. Vertical stratification of moths across elevation and latitude. Journal of Biogeography. 43: 59-69.
18. Nakamura, A.*, Burwell, C. J., Lambkin, C. L., Katabuchi, M., McDougall, A., Raven, R. J. and Neldner, V. J. 2015. The role of human disturbance in island biogeography of arthropods and plants: an information theoretic approach. Journal of Biogeography. 42: 1406-1417.
19. Roslin, T.*, Hardwick, B., Novotny, V., Andrew, N., Asmus, A., Barrio, I. C., Basset, Y., Boesing, A. L., Bonebrake, T. C., Cameron, E. K., Dattilo, W., Donoso, D. A., Drozd, P., Gray, C. L., Hik, D. S., Hill, S., Hopkins, T., Huang, S., Koane, B., Laird-Hopkins, B., Laukkanen, L., Lewis, O. T., Milne, S., Mwesige, I., Nakamura, A., Nell, C. S., Nichols, E., Petry, W. K., Prokurat, A., Sam, K., Schmidt, N. M., Slade, A., Slade, V., Suchankova, A., Teder, T., van Nouhuys, S., Vandvik, V., Weissflog, A., Zhukovich, V. & Slade, E. M. 2017. Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations. Science. 356: 742-744. (IF = 56.9, Top 2 in multidisciplinary sciences)
20. He, X., Liu, S.*, Nakamura, A., Ellwood, M. D. F., Zhou, S., Xing, S., Li, Y., and Wen, D.* 2024. Intraspecific functional traits and stable isotope signatures of ground-dwelling ants across an elevational gradient. Soil Ecology Letters. 6: 240230.
21. Blanchard, B. D.*, Dai, Q., Duan, M., Nie, Y., Njoroge, D. M., and Nakamura, A. 2024. Preference for mammalian urine is higher in the canopy than on the ground in a tropical rainforest ant community in Yunnan, China. Myrmecological News. 34: 57–69.
22. Phoutthavong, K., Katabuchi, M.*, Nakamura, A., Cheng, X., and Cao, M. 2023. Interspecific and intraspecific adaptations of pteridophyte leaf traits in limestone and non-limestone forests of monsoon tropical regions of southwest China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 16: rtad026.
23. Zhou, C., Nakamura, A., Song, X., and Katabuchi, M.*. 2023. Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) Influences Understory Plant Traits through Ecological Processes: A Two-Year Experiment in a Rubber Plantation in China. Ecologies 4:704–713.
24. Kitching, R. L.*, Maunsell, S. C., Odell, E. H., Orr, A. G., Nakamura, A., and Ashton, L. A. 2023. Arthropods of Australia’s subtropical and tropical rainforests: rich and unique hotspots of biological diversity? Journal of Insect Conservation. 27: 59-74.
25. Wenda, C., Gaitán-Espitia, J. D., Solano-Iguaran, J. J., Nakamura, A., Majcher, B. M., Ashton, L. A.* 2023. Heat tolerance variation reveals vulnerability of tropical herbivore-parasitoid interactions to climate change. Ecology Letters. 26: 278-290.
26. Wenda, C., Nakamura, A., Ashton, L. A.* 2023. Season and herbivore defence trait mediate tri-trophic interactions in tropical rainforest. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92: 466-476.
27. Watanabe, K., Yoshida, T.*, and Nakamura, A. 2023. Effects of resource size on invertebrate assemblages in water-filled treeholes. Acta Oecologica. 118: 103884.
28. Roeder, M., Dossa, G. G. O., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Yang, X., Nakamura, A., Tomlinson, K. W.* 2022. Liana litter decomposes faster than tree litter in a multispecies and multisite experiment. Journal of Ecology. 110: 2433-2447.
29. Saowong, K., Saengwilai, P. J., Fuangarworn, M., Nakamura, A., Jeratthitikul, E.* 2022. Maize varieties and their root trait variation mediate the development of rhizosphere arthropod diversity. Applied Soil Ecology. 180: 104615.
30. Nimalrathna, T. S., Tibpromma, S., Nakamura, A., Galappaththi, M. C. A., Xu, J., Mortimer, P. E., Karunarathna, S. C.* 2022. The case of the missing mushroom: a novel bioluminescent species discovered within Favolaschia in southwestern China. Phytotaxa. 539:244–256.
31. Wang, M., Luo, A., Zhou, Q., Chen, J., Xie, T., Li, Y., Chesters, D., Shi, X., Xiao, H., Liu, H., Ding, Q., Zhou, X., Luo, Y., Lu, Y., Tong, Y., Zhao, Z., Bai, M., Guo, P., Chen, S., Nakamura, A., Peng, Y., Zhao, Y., Wei, S., Lin, X., Chen, H., Luo, S., Lu, Y., Lu, L., Yu, J., Zhou, X., Zou, Y., Lu, H., and Zhu. C.* 2022. Research progress on insect diversity. Biodiversity Science. 30: 22454. (Article in Chinese with the English abstract)
32. Wenda, C.*, Xing, S., Nakamura, A., Bonebrake, and T. C. 2021. Morphological and behavioural differences facilitate tropical butterfly persistence in variable environments. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90: 2888-2900.
33. Hu, H., Shen, T., Quan, D. L., Nakamura, A., and Song, L.* 2021. Structuring interaction networks between epiphytic bryophytes and their hosts in Yunnan, SW China. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4: 716278.
34. Song, X., Cao, M.*, Li, J., Kitching, R. L., Nakamura, A., Laidlaw, M. J., Tang, Y., Sun, Z., Zhang, W. and Yang, J. 2021. Different environmental factors drive tree species diversity along elevation gradients in three climatic zones in Yunnan, southern China. Plant Diversity. 43: 433-443.
35. Pan, X., Mizuno, T.*, Ito, K., Ohsugi, T., Nishimichi, S., Nomiya, R., Ohno, M., Yamawo, A., and Nakamura, A. 2021. Assessing temporal dynamics of predation and effectiveness of caterpillar visual defense using sawfly larval color and resting posture as a model. Insect Science. 28: 1800-1815.
36. Blanchard, B. D.*, Nakamura, A., Cao, M., Chen, S. T. and Moreau, C. S. 2020. Spine and dine: A key defensive trait promotes ecological success in spiny ants. Ecology and Evolution. 10: 5852-5863.
37. McCaig, T., Sam, L., Nakamura, A. and Stork, N. E.*. 2020. Is insect vertical distribution in rainforests better explained by distance from the canopy top or distance from the ground? Biodiversity and Conservation. 29: 1081-1103.
38. Lamarre, G. P. A., Fayle, T. M., Segar, S. T., Laird-Hopkins, B. C., Nakamura, A., Souto-Vilarós, D., Watanabe, S., and Basset, Y.* 2020. Monitoring tropical insects in the 21st century. Advances in Ecological Research. 62:295-330.
39. Deng, Y., Deng, X., Dong, J., Zhang, W., Hu, T., Nakamura, A., Song, X., Fu, P., and Cao, M.* 2020. Detecting growth phase shifts based on leaf trait variation of a canopy dipterocarp tree species (Parashorea chinensis). Forests. 11:1–20.
40. Phoutthavong, K., Nakamura, A., Cheng, X. and Cao, M.* 2019. Differences in pteridophyte diversity between limestone forests and non-limestone forests in the monsoonal tropics of southwestern China, Plant Ecology. 220: 917-934.
41. Song, X., Cao, M., Kitching, R. L., Tang, Y., Sun, Z., Nakamura, A., Laidlaw, M. J. and Yang, J.* 2019. Environmental and spatial contributions to seedling and adult tree assembly across tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational gradients. Journal of Plant Ecology. 12: 103-112.
42. Lamarre, G. P. A.*, Juin, Y., Lapied, E., Le Gall, P. and Nakamura, A. 2018. Using field-based entomological research to promote awareness about forest ecosystem conservation. Nature Conservation. 29:39-56.
43. Sreekar, R.*, Katabuchi, M., Nakamura, A., Corlett, R. T., Slik, J. W. F., Fletcher, C., He, F., Weiblen, G. D., Shen, G., Xu, H., Sun, I., Cao, K., Ma, K., Chang, L., Cao, M., Jiang, M., Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N., Ong, P., Yap, S., Gunatilleke, C. V. S., Novotny, V., Brockelman, W. Y., Xiang, W., Mi, X., Li, X., Wang, X., Qiao, X., Li, Y., Tan, S., Condit, R., Harrison, R. D. and Koh., L. P. 2018. Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude. Royal Society Open Science. 5: 181168.
44. Yoshida, T.*, Ban, Y. and Nakamura, A. 2018. Vertical stratification of invertebrate assemblages in water-filled treeholes of a temperate deciduous forest. Basic and Applied Ecology. 27: 61-70.
45. Xing, S., Cheng, W., Nakamura, A., Tang, C. C., Pickett, E. J., Huang, S., Odell, E., Goodale, E., Goodale, U. M. and Bonebrake, T. C.* 2018. Elevational clines in morphological traits of subtropical and tropical butterfly assemblages. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123: 506-517.
46. Luo, X., Cao, M.*, Zhang, M., Song, X., Li, J., Nakamura, A., and Kitching, R. 2017. Soil seed banks along elevational gradients in tropical, subtropical and subalpine forests in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Plant Diversity. 39: 273-286.
47. Leles, B.*, Xiao, X., Pasion, B. O., Nakamura, A. and Tomlinson, K. W. 2017. Does plant diversity increase top–down control of herbivorous insects in tropical forest? Oikos. 126: 1142-1149.
