Urban greenery offers significant ecological and psychological advantages; however, widely used visibility metrics, such as the Green View Index (GVI), are limited to a single horizontal viewpoint. Modified metrics that encompass broader viewpoints often require specialized expertise and lack temporal and spatial adaptability. To overcome these limitations, we have developed a practical method that can be deployed in the field...

Farmlands are becoming more important as waterfowl foraging habitats, while natural wetlands are being lost globally. However, it is unclear how waterfowl coexist in agricultural landscapes by resource partitioning. We evaluated the diets of seven sympatric dabbling ducks foraging in rice paddy and lotus fields around Lake Kasumigaura, the second largest lake in Japan, during two wintering seasons (from November to February) b...

The form-factor for the stem surface area is directly proportional to the square root of the form-factor for the stem volume, i.e., the square root law of the form-factor. Although the square root law addresses the stems of coniferous trees, the nature of the proportional coefficient of the law has not been discussed. In this study, we demonstrated that the coefficient indicates the stem taper; therefore, it is named “Taper In...

We conducted paired measurements of the Sr/Ca ratio and oxygen and carbon stable isotopes of a fossil Faviidae coral specimen (MYK90), age 16 ka, collected from near Miyako Island, the Ryukyus, southwestern Japan. Our study aimed to reconstruct the palaeoenvironment in the East China Sea at 16 ka by comparing the fossil sample with modern Faviidae corals. Our data with annual or longer time resolution may be very suitable for...