Research site for my doctoral dissertation: Shiretoko Iwaobetsu-Horobetsu abandoned pasture, Hokkaido (2005)
Research site for my doctoral dissertation: Shiretoko Iwaobetsu-Horobetsu abandoned pasture, Hokkaido (2005)
PUBLICATIONS
Navaandorj I, Tsogtbayar E, Tsogtbaatar S, Dashdondog G-O, Nyamtseren M, Shoyama K. (2025) Mongolian Freshwater Ecosystems Under Climate Change and Anthropogenic Pressure: A Case Study of Ugii Lake. Land 14(5):998. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14050998
Nyamtseren M, Pham TD, Vu TTP, Navaandorj I, Shoyama K. (2025) Mapping Vegetation Changes in Mongolian Grasslands (1990–2024) Using Landsat Data and Advanced Machine Learning Algorithm. Remote Sensing 17(3):400. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17030400
Katsuda, K., Saeki, I., Shoyama, K., Kamijo, T. (2022) Local perception of ecosystem services provided by symbolic wild cherry blossoms: toward community-based management of traditional forest landscapes in Japan, Ecosystems and People 18:1: 275-288, DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2022.2065359
Manzoor, S.A., Griffiths, G.H., Robinson, E., Shoyama, K., Lukac, M. (2022) Linking Pattern to Process: Intensity Analysis of Land-Change Dynamics in Ghana as Correlated to Past Socioeconomic and Policy Contexts, Land 11: 1070, https://doi.org/10.3390/land11071070
Shoyama, K., Nishi, M., Hashimoto, S. Saito, O. (2021) Outcome-Based Assessment of the Payment for Mountain Agriculture: A Community-Based Approach to Countering Land Abandonment in Japan, Environmental Management 68: 353–365, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01497-4
Shoyama, K., Cui, Q., Hanashima, M., Sano, H., Usuda, Y. (2021) Emergency flood detection using multiple information sources: Integrated analysis of natural hazard monitoring and social media data, Science of The Total Environment 767: 144371, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144371.
Shoyama, K. (2021) Assessment of Land-Use Scenarios at a National Scale Using Intensity Analysis and Figure of Merit Components, Land 10: 379, https://doi.org/10.3390/land10040379
Xue, Z., Zhen, L., Md Giashuddin Miah, Shoyama, K. (2019) Impact assessment of land use functions on the sustainable regional development of representative Asian countries – A comparative study in Bangladesh, China and Japan, Science of The Total Environment 694: 133689, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133689
Shoyama, K., Matsui, T., Hashimoto, S., Kabaya, K., Oono, A., Saito, O. (2019) Development of land use scenarios using vegetation inventories in Japan, Sustainability Science 14: 39–52, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0617-7
Saito, O., Kamiyama, C., Hashimoto, S., Matsui, T., Shoyama, K., Kabaya, K., Uetake, T., Taki, H., Ishikawa, Y., Matsushita, K., Yamane, F., Hori, J., Ariga, T., Takeuchi, K. (2019) Co-design of National-Scale Future Scenarios in Japan to Predict and Assess Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services, Sustainability Science 14: 5–21, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0587-9
Shoyama K., Braimoh A.K., Avtar R., Saito O. (2018) Land transition and intensity analysis of cropland expansion in Northern Ghana, Environmental Management 62: 892-905, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-018-1085-7
Jasaw G.S., Saito O., Gasparatos A., Shoyama K., Boafo Y.A., Takeuchi K. (2017) Ecosystem services trade-offs from high fuelwood use for traditional shea butter processing in semi-arid Ghana, Ecosystem Services 27: 127-138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.09.003
Shoyama K., Kamiyama C., Morimoto J., Ooba M., Okuro T. (2017) A review of modeling approaches for ecosystem services assessment in the Asian region. Ecosystem Services 26: 316-328, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.03.013
Shoyama K., Yamagata Y. (2016) Local perception of ecosystem service bundles in the Kushiro watershed, Northern Japan – Application of a public participation GIS tool, Ecosystem Services 22: 139-149, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.10.009
Shoyama K., Yamagata Y. (2014) Predicting land-use change for biodiversity conservation and climate-change mitigation and its effect on ecosystem services in a watershed in northern Japan. Ecosystem Services 8: 25-34, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.02.004
Fabusoro E., Maruyama M., Shoyama K., Braimoh AK., (2013) Community Institutions, Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Cover Change in Southern Japan. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 33: 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1080/10549811.2013.803189
Shoyama K., Managi S., Yamagata Y. (2013) Public preferences for biodiversity conservation and climate-change mitigation: a choice experiment using ecosystem services indicators. Land Use Policy 34: 282-293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.04.003
Shoyama K. (2013) Effects of thinning and excluding deer browsing on sapling establishment and growth in larch plantations. Landscape and Ecological Engineering 9: 77–87, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11355-011-0178-8
Subramanian M.S., Rahajoe S.J., Shoyama K., Lu X., Thapa S., Braimoh A.K. (2011) An indicator – based integrated assessment of ecosystem change and human-wellbeing: Selected case studies from Indonesia, China and Japan. Ecological Economics 70: 2124-2136, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.010
Shoyama K., Braimoh A.K. (2011) Analyzing about sixty years of land-cover change and associated landscape fragmentation in Shiretoko Peninsula, Northern Japan. Landscape and Urban Planning 101: 22–29, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.12.016
Shoyama K. (2008) Reforestation of abandoned pasture on Hokkaido, northern Japan: effect of plantations on the recovery of conifer-broadleaved mixed forest. Landscape and Ecological Engineering 4:11-23, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11355-008-0034-7
BOOK CHAPTERS
Shoyama K, Dasgupta R, Estoque RC. (2022) Ecosystem Service and Land-Use Changes in Asia: Implications for Regional Sustainability. Sustainability 14(21):14263. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114263
Saito O., Boafo Y. A, Jasaw G.S, Antwi E.K, Shoyama K, Kranjac-Berisavljevic G, Yeboah R, Obeng F, Gyasi E.A, Takeuchi K. (2017) The Ghana Model for Resilience Enhancement in Semi-Arid Ghana: Conceptualization and Social Implementation. (Chapter 2) in Building Integrated Resilience Strategy against Climate and Ecosystem Changes for Sub-Saharan Africa, Springer.
L. A. Acosta, B. A. Wintle, Z. Benedek, P. B. Chhetri, S. J. Heymans, A. C. Onur, R. L. Painter, A. Razafimpahanana, K. Shoyama (2016) The methodological assessment report on scenarios and models of biodiversity and ecosystem services, Secretariat of the IPBES.