Kanehiro Kitayama

11.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
167 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

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Kanehiro Kitayama is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kanehiro Kitayama has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 67 papers in Soil Science and 54 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kanehiro Kitayama's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (78 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (65 papers) and Forest ecology and management (32 papers). Kanehiro Kitayama is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (78 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (65 papers) and Forest ecology and management (32 papers). Kanehiro Kitayama collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Malaysia and United States. Kanehiro Kitayama's co-authors include Shin‐ichiro Aiba, Dieter Mueller‐Dombois, Peter M. Vitousek, Rota Wagai, Amane Hidaka, Masayuki Ushio, Teri C. Balser, Lawrence M. Mayer, Masaaki Takyu and Timothy E. Crews and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

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Kanehiro Kitayama

164 papers receiving 6.7k citations

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Changes in Soil Phosphorus Fractions and Ecosystem Dynamics across a Long Chronosequence in Hawaii

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Soil phosphate availability drives shifts between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal fungi in the dual mycorrhizal plant Quercus serrata 2025 ·New Phytologist ·Tatsuhiro Ezawa, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kanehiro Kitayama	0
2	Soil wetting triggered by selective logging in Bornean lowland tropical rainforests 2024 ·Forest Ecology and Management ·(unknown), Ryota Aoyagi, (unknown), Kanehiro Kitayama	0
3	Intraspecific variations in activities of four classes of fine root phosphatases in Quercus serrata, a dominant deciduous oak, occurring across a wide soil phosphorus gradient in Japan 2024 ·Plant and Soil ·(unknown), (unknown), Rota Wagai, Kanehiro Kitayama	5
4	Exploration capacity versus specific enzymatic activity of ectomycorrhizas in response to primary productivity and soil phosphorus availability in Bornean tropical rainforests 2024 ·Scientific Reports ·K. Okada, (unknown), Shin‐ichiro Aiba, Kanehiro Kitayama	1
5	Plant Adaptation and Phosphorus Limitation in Tropical Forests: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment 2024 ·Ecosystems ·Ryota Aoyagi, Nobuo Imai, Benjamin L. Turner, Kanehiro Kitayama	5
6	Destructive selective logging in tropical forests causes soil carbon loss through forest degradation and soil redox change 2023 ·Forest Ecology and Management ·(unknown), Rota Wagai, Ryota Aoyagi, Jupiri Titin, Kanehiro Kitayama	5
7	Similar release pattern of two major groups of primary metabolites in root exudates of four coexisting canopy species 2021 ·Rhizosphere ·Lijuan Sun, Mioko Ataka, Yuji Kominami, Kenichi Yoshimura, Kanehiro Kitayama	3
8	A constant microbial C/N ratio mediates the microbial nitrogen mineralization induced by root exudation among four co-existing canopy species 2021 ·Rhizosphere ·Lijuan Sun, Mioko Ataka, Yuji Kominami, Kenichi Yoshimura, Kanehiro Kitayama	18
9	Litterfall silicon flux in relation to vegetation differences in old‐growth and logged lowland forests in Borneo 2021 ·Ecological Research ·Ryosuke Nakamura, Nobuo Imai, Ryota Aoyagi, Kanehiro Kitayama, Kaoru Kitajima	6
10	Effects of logging on landscape-level tree diversity across an elevational gradient in Bornean tropical forests 2021 ·Global Ecology and Conservation ·(unknown), Ryota Aoyagi, (unknown), John B. Sugau, Joan T. Pereira, Kanehiro Kitayama	7
11	Temperature is a dominant driver of distinct annual seasonality of leaf litter production of equatorial tropical rain forests 2020 ·Journal of Ecology ·Kanehiro Kitayama, Masayuki Ushio, Shin‐ichiro Aiba	30
12	Genecology and ecophysiology of the maintenance of foliar phenotypic polymorphisms of Leptospermum recurvum (Myrtaceae) under oscillating atmospheric desiccation in the tropical‐subalpine zone of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo 2020 ·Ecological Research ·(unknown), Yuji Isagi, Kanehiro Kitayama	1
13	Silicon cycled by tropical forest trees: effects of species, elevation and parent material on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia 2019 ·Plant and Soil ·Ryosuke Nakamura, Hidehiro Ishizawa, Rota Wagai, Shizuo Suzuki, Kanehiro Kitayama, Kaoru Kitajima	21
14	Silicon cycled by tropical forest trees: effects of species, elevation and bedrock on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia 2018 ·Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Ryosuke Nakamura, Hidehiro Ishizawa, Rota Wagai, Shizuo Suzuki, Kanehiro Kitayama, Kaoru Kitajima	1
15	Root‐exudate flux variations among four co‐existing canopy species in a temperate forest, Japan 2017 ·Ecological Research ·Lijuan Sun, Yuji Kominami, Kenichi Yoshimura, Kanehiro Kitayama	35
16	Plant–soil feedbacks and the dominance of conifers in a tropical montane forest in Borneo 2016 ·Ecological Monographs ·Masayuki Ushio, Shin‐ichiro Aiba, Yayoi Takeuchi, Y. Iida, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Rimi Repin, Kanehiro Kitayama	17
17	A quantitative analysis of phenotypic variations of Metrosideros polymorpha within and across populations along environmental gradients on Mauna Loa, Hawaii 2015 ·Oecologia ·(unknown), Yusuke Onoda, Ayako Izuno, Yuji Isagi, Kanehiro Kitayama	25
18	EffEcts of logging on phosphorus pools in a tropical rainforEst of BornEo 2012 ·JOURNAL OF TROPICAL FOREST SCIENCE ·Nobuo Imai, Kanehiro Kitayama, Jupiri Titin	13
19	Fine-litterfall Dynamics in Hill and Montane Forests on Mount Kinabalu in the 1996 Masting Year. 1998 ·Tropics ·Kanehiro Kitayama, S. de Alba, (unknown), Kihachiro Kikuzawa	5
20	Vegetation of Mount Kinabalu 1987 ·Kanehiro Kitayama	10

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