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Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Course of Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Ryukoku University

Degree: Ph.D.(Science)(University of McGill)
Master(Arts and Science)(University of Toronto)

J-GLOBAL ID: 200901092333241030
researchmap Member ID: 5000081430

Research Interests

4

Research Areas

1

Life sciences / Ecology and environmental science /

Research History

8

1998 - 2003

: CSIRO Cotton Research Institute(Australia) Senior
1998 - 2003

: オーストラリア国立研究機構主任科学研究員
1995 - 1998

Virginia Tech University(USA) Research Associate
1995 - 1998

: バージニア州立理工科大学生物学科研究員、講師
1993 - 1995

: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute,
1993 - 1995

: 森林総合研究所特別招聘研究員
Research Scientist
Sapporo Research Center(Japan) STA Research Fellow

Education

6

- 1992

Plant Ecophysiology, Biology, University of McGill
- 1992

植物生理生態学, 生物研究科, McGill大学
- 1989

Arctic Plant Ecology, Biology, University of Toronto
- 1989

北極植物生態学, 生物研究科, Toronto大学
- 1981

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of McGill
- 1981

生物学科, 理学部, McGill大学

Committee Memberships

1

会員, 日本生態学会

Papers

44

The summer-deciduous habit of Daphne pseudomezereum is a response to warm summer as cooling converts it to an evergreen

Lei Thomas

Journal Plant Ecology, 221(6) 431-440, May, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Why does Daphne pseudomezereum drop its leaves in the summer? An adaptive alternative to surviving forest shade

Thomas Lei, Naoko Yamashita, Takuya Watanabe, Takayuki Kawahara, Tomiyasu Miyaura

Physiology Plantarum, 168(1) 77-87, Jan 24, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
Park pruning prompts a competitive reversal of an exotic tree, Ligustrum lucidum, in urban forests of Japan

Thomas Lei, Naoki Nishikawa, Naoko Yamashita

URBAN ECOSYSTEMS, 19(3) 1103-1118, Sep, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Impact of leaf removal on initial survival and growth of container-grown and bare-root seedlings of Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)

Naoko Yamashita, Shiro Okuda, Rempei Suwa, Thomas Ting Lei, Hiroyuki Tobita, Hajime Utsugi, Takuya Kajimoto

FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 370 76-82, Jun, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Environmental preferences and constraints of Daphne laureola, an invasive shrub in western Canada

Thomas Lei

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, 44(11) 1462-1467, Nov, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Undamaged cotton plants yield more if their neighbour is damaged: implications for pest management

L. J. Wilson, T. T. Lei, V. O. Sadras, L. T. Wilson, S. C. Heimoana

BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 99(5) 467-478, Oct, 2009
PRESENCE OF UNDERSTORY SHRUBS CONSTRAINS CARBON GAIN IN SUNFLECKS BY ADVANCE-REGENERATION SEEDLINGS: EVIDENCE FROM QUERCUS RUBRA SEEDLINGS GROWING IN UNDERSTORY FOREST PATCHES WITH OR WITHOUT EVERGREEN SHRUBS PRESENT

E. T. Nilsen, T. T. Lei, S. W. Semones

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES, 170(6) 735-747, Jul, 2009
Freezing induced leaf movements and their potential implications to early spring carbon gain: Rhododendron maximum as exemplar

Raymond B. Russell, Thomas T. Lei, Erik T. Nilsen

FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, 23(3) 463-471, Jun, 2009
Ecophysiological differences between a summer-deciduous shrub (Daphne pseudo-mezereum) and its winter-deciduous close relative (Daphne pseudo-mezereum var. koreana)

Lei T, T. Miyaura, N.Yamashita

Abstracts of the Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, 2008
Interaction of drought and elevated CO2 concentration on photosynthetic down-regulation and susceptibility to photoinhibition in Japanese white birch seedlings grown with limited N availability

Mitsutoshi Kitao, Thomas T. Lei, Takayoshi Koike, Masazumi Kayama, Hiroyuki Tobita, Yutaka Maruyama

TREE PHYSIOLOGY, 27(5) 727-735, May, 2007 Peer-reviewed
Circumvention of over-excitation of PSII by maintaining electron transport rate in leaves of four cotton genotypes developed under long-term drought

M. Kitao, T. T. Lei

PLANT BIOLOGY, 9(1) 69-76, Jan, 2007
Light environment under Rhododendron maximum thickets and estimated carbon gain of regenerating forest tree seedlings

T. T. Lei, E. T. Nilsen, S. W. Semones

PLANT ECOLOGY, 184(1) 143-156, May, 2006
Tradeoff between shade adaptation and mitigation of photoinhibition in leaves of Quercus mongolica and Acer mono acclimated to deep shade

M Kitao, TT Lei, T Koike, H Tobita, Y Maruyama

TREE PHYSIOLOGY, 26(4) 441-448, Apr, 2006
Characteristics of defense chemicals of mountain alder seedlings raised under elevated CO2 and nitrogen supply

T. Koike, T. Shibata, T. T. Lei, S. Matsuki, H. Tobita, M. Kitao, N. Yamashita, A. M. Quoreshi, Y. Maruyama

PHYTON-ANNALES REI BOTANICAE, 45(4) 163-168, 2005
Photosynthetic acclimation of birch, maple, and oak seedlings to elevated CO2 and the mediating effect of low growth irradiance.

Lei TT, T. Koike

Phyton (Horn, Austria), 45(4) 145-152, 2005
Recovery of leaf area through accelerated shoot ontogeny in thrips-damaged cotton seedlings

TT Lei, LJ Wilson

ANNALS OF BOTANY, 94(1) 179-186, Jul, 2004
Recovery of leaf area through accelerated shoot ontogeny in thrips-damaged cotton seedlings

Tom T. Lei, Lewis J. Wilson

Annals of Botany, 94(1) 179-186, 2004
Higher electron transport rate observed at low intercellular CO2 concentration in long-term drought-acclimated leaves of Japanese mountain birch (Betula ermanii)

M Kitao, TT Lei, T Koike, H Tobita, Y Maruyama

PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM, 118(3) 406-413, Jul, 2003
Recovery from terminal and fruit damage by dry season cotton crops in tropical Australia

Journal of Economic Entomology, 96 730-736, 2003
Recovery from terminal and fruit damage by dry season cotton crops in tropical Austraria

Lei TT, Gaff N

Journal of Economic Entomology, 96 730-736, 2003

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Misc.

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Undamaged cotton plants yield more if their neighbour is damaged: implications for pest management

L. J. Wilson, T. T. Lei, V. O. Sadras, L. T. Wilson, S. C. Heimoana

BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 99(5) 467-478, Oct, 2009
PRESENCE OF UNDERSTORY SHRUBS CONSTRAINS CARBON GAIN IN SUNFLECKS BY ADVANCE-REGENERATION SEEDLINGS: EVIDENCE FROM QUERCUS RUBRA SEEDLINGS GROWING IN UNDERSTORY FOREST PATCHES WITH OR WITHOUT EVERGREEN SHRUBS PRESENT

E. T. Nilsen, T. T. Lei, S. W. Semones

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES, 170(6) 735-747, Jul, 2009
Freezing induced leaf movements and their potential implications to early spring carbon gain: Rhododendron maximum as exemplar

Raymond B. Russell, Thomas T. Lei, Erik T. Nilsen

FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, 23(3) 463-471, Jun, 2009
Ecophysiological differences between a summer-deciduous shrub (Daphne pseudo-mezereum) and its winter-deciduous close relative (Daphne pseudo-mezereum var. koreana)

Lei T, T. Miyaura, N.Yamashita

Abstracts of the Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, 2008
Circumvention of over-excitation of PSII by maintaining electron transport rate in leaves of four cotton genotypes developed under long-term drought

M. Kitao, T. T. Lei

Plant Biology, 9(1) 69-76, Jan, 2007
Light environment under Rhododendron maximum thickets and estimated carbon gain of regenerating forest tree seedlings

T. T. Lei, E. T. Nilsen, S. W. Semones

PLANT ECOLOGY, 184(1) 143-156, May, 2006
Tradeoff between shade adaptation and mitigation of photoinhibition in leaves of Quercus mongolica and Acer mono acclimated to deep shade

M Kitao, TT Lei, T Koike, H Tobita, Y Maruyama

TREE PHYSIOLOGY, 26(4) 441-448, Apr, 2006
Ecophysiological traits of summer deciduous shrub Daphne kamtschatica var. jezoensis (Thymelaeaceae)

YAMASHITA Naoko, UTSUGI Hajime, IIDA Shigeo, TOBITA Hiroyuki, ABE Shin, Lei Thomas

日本森林学会北海道支部論文集, (53) 61-63, Feb 1, 2005
Photosynthetic acclimation of birch, maple, and oak seedlings to elevated CO2 and the mediating effect of low growth irradiance

T. T. Lei, T. Koike

PHYTON-ANNALES REI BOTANICAE, 45(4) 145-152, 2005
Recovery of leaf area through accelerated shoot ontogeny in thrips-damaged cotton seedlings

TT Lei, LJ Wilson

ANNALS OF BOTANY, 94(1) 179-186, Jul, 2004
Higher electron transport rate observed at low intercellular CO2 concentration in long-term drought-acclimated leaves of Japanese mountain birch (Betula ermanii)

M Kitao, TT Lei, T Koike, H Tobita, Y Maruyama

PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM, 118(3) 406-413, Jul, 2003
Recovery from terminal and fruit damage by dry season cotton crops in tropical Australia

TT Lei, N Gaff

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY, 96(3) 730-736, Jun, 2003
Recovery from terminal and fruit damage by dry season cotton crops in tropical Australia

TT Lei, N Gaff

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY, 96(3) 730-736, Jun, 2003
Effects of Rhododendron maximum thickets on tree seed dispersal, seedling morphology, and survivorship

TT Lei, SW Semones, JF Walker, BD Clinton, ET Nilsen

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES, 163(6) 991-1000, Nov, 2002
Effects of Rhododendron maximum thickets on tree seed dispersal, seedling morphology, and survivorship

TT Lei, SW Semones, JF Walker, BD Clinton, ET Nilsen

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES, 163(6) 991-1000, Nov, 2002
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) Response to simulated repeated damage by Helicoverpa spp. Larvae

Lei Thomas

Journal of Cotton Science, 6(4) 119-125, 2002
Cotton(Gossypium hirsutum) Response to simulated repeated damage by Helicoverpa spp.larvae.

Journal of Cotton Science, 6(4):119-125, 2002
Leaf morphology and photosynthetic adjustments among deciduous broad-leaved trees within the vertical canopy profile

T Koike, M Kitao, Y Maruyama, S Mori, TT Lei

TREE PHYSIOLOGY, 21(12-13) 951-958, Aug, 2001
Does Rhododendron maximum L. (Ericaceae) reduce the availability of resources above and belowground for canopy tree seedlings?

ET Nilsen, BD Clinton, TT Lei, OK Miller, SW Semones, JF Walker

AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST, 145(2) 325-343, Apr, 2001
Manganese toxicity as indicated by visible foliar symptoms of Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)

M Kitao, TT Lei, T Nakamura, T Koike

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, 111(1) 89-94, 2001

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Presentations

1

Ecophysiological differences between a summer-deciduous shrub (Daphne pseudo-mezereum) and its winter-deciduous close relative (Daphne pseudo-mezereum var. koreana)

Abstracts of the Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, 2008

Professional Memberships

1

日本生態学会

Works

2

The ecology and conservation of an endangered shrub in the forests of center Japan

2005 - 2006
絶滅が危惧される低木種の生態とその保全に関する研究

2005 - 2006

Research Projects

4

Will tree seedling fitness and survival decline in the face of climate change? A novel quantitative approach with implications on forest regeneration

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C), 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2024

Lei Thomas・T
Park pruning prompts a cpmpetitive reversal of an invasive tree in urban forest of Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Oct, 2015 - Mar, 2018

Yamashita Naoko, Lei Thomas
極端な葉フェノロジー多型の進化適応的意義と種の絶滅・侵入リスク評価

科学研究費補助金, 2008 - 2011
Growth and reproductive responses of cotton to insect herbivores

2003 - 2005