Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Hayashi, M., Kobayashi, T., Yoshitomi, H. & Sota, T. (accepted) Molecular phylogeny of old-world Dryopoidea beetles (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Elateriformia) based on ultraconserved elements of DNA sequence data from Japanese taxa. Insect Systematics and Diversity.

Kobayashi, T., Oguro, M., Taki, H. & Kurokawa, H. (2024) Decomposability of leaf and wood litter are not correlated across species: Effects of litter traits on decomposition in field and laboratory conditions. Oikos e10045.

Kobayashi, T., Hayashi, M., Kamite, Y. & Sota, T. (2021) Molecular phylogeny of Elmidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea) with a focus on Japanese species: implications for intrafamilial classification. Systematic Entomology 46:870–886. DOI:10.1111/syen.12499

Kobayashi, T. & Sota, T. (2021) Evolution of host use in fungivorous ciid beetles (Coleoptera: Ciidae): molecular phylogeny focusing on Japanese taxa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 162:107197. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107197

Kobayashi, T. (2020) A new species of Acanthocis Miyatake (Coleoptera, Ciidae) from Laos. Elytra, Tokyo, New Series 10(2):291–294.

Nakadai, R., Kobayashi, T. & Hashimoto, K. (2020) Dataset of forewing length of Japanese and Taiwanese butterfly species. Ecological Research 35(5):780–786. DOI:10.1111/1440-1703.12147 

Kobayashi, T., Oguro, M., Akiba, M., Taki, H., Kitajima, H. & Ishihara, H. (2020) Mushroom yield of cultivated shiitake (Lentinula edodes) and fungal communities in logs. Journal of Forest Research 25(4):269–275. DOI:10.1080/13416979.2020.1759886

Hayashi, M., Yoshitomi, H., Kamite, Y., Kobayashi, T. & Sota, T. (2019) Description of adults and larvae of Orientelmis parvula (Nomura & Baba, 1961) (Coleoptera: Elmidae) with their molecular phylogenetic analysis. Zootaxa 4568(3):483–500. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4568.3.4

Kobayashi, T. & Sota, T. (2019) Contrasting effects of habitat discontinuity on three closely related fungivorous beetle species with diverging host-use patterns and dispersal ability. Ecology and Evolution 9(5):2475–2486. DOI:10.1002/ece3.4862

Kobayashi, T. & Sota, T. (2019) Divergent host use among cryptic species in the fungivorous ciid beetle Octotemnus laminifrons (Motschulsky, 1860), with descriptions of three new species from Japan. Systematic Entomology 44(1):179–191. DOI:10.1111/syen.12321

Stephan, J.G., Pourazari, F., Tattersdill, K., Kobayashi, T., Nishizawa, K. & De Long, J.R. (2017) Long-term deer exclosure alters soil properties, plant traits, understory plant community and insect herbivory, but not the functional relationships among them. Oecologia 184:685–699. DOI:10.1007/s00442-017-3895-3

Hayashi, M., Kamite, Y., Kobayashi, T. & Sota, T. (2016) Description of larvae of genera Stenelmis, Ordobrevia and Nomuraelmis (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) of Japan with their molecular taxonomy. Zootaxa 4178(4):451–480. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.1

Kobayashi, T. & Sota T. (2016) Distance decay of similarity in fungivorous insect communities: assessing dispersal limitation using genetic data. Ecosphere 7(6):e01358. DOI:10.1002/ecs2.1358

Others

小林卓也 (2020) ツヤツツキノコムシ属4種の記録と和名. さやばねニューシリーズ 40:56–57.