Publication

Naka M*, Masumoto S, Nishizawa K, Matsuoka S, Tatsumi S, Kobayashi Y, Suzuki KF, Xu X, Kawakami T, Katayama N, Makoto K, OKada K, Uchida M, Takagi K, Mori AS (2024) Long-term consequences on soil fungal community structure: Monoculture planting and natural regeneration. Environmental Management.73:777–787  

Masumoto S*, Mori AS, Nishizawa K, Naka M, Matsuoka S,Wong SK, Uchida M. (2023) Synergistic effects of succession and microtopography of moraine on the fungal spatial diversity in a glacier forefield. FEMS Microbiology Ecology: 99: fiad090

Masumoto S (2023) The northernmost plant pathogenic fungus, Rhytisma arcticum sp. nov.: Morphological and molecular characterization of a novel species from Ellesmere Island, Canada. Forest Pathology, 53, e12818. 

Wong SK*, Cui Y, Chun SJ, Kaneko R, Masumoto S, Kitagawa R, Mori AS, Lim AS, Uchida M (2023). Vegetation as a key driver of the distribution of microbial generalists that in turn shapes the overall microbial community structure in the low Arctic tundra. Environmental Microbiome, 18(1), 1-18. 

Masumoto S*, Kitagawa R, Kaneko R, Nishizawa K, Matsuoka S, Uchida M, Mori AS. (2023) Discrepancies of fungi and plants in the pattern of beta-diversity with environmental gradient imply a comprehensive community assembly rule. FEMS Microbiology Ecology: 99: fiac157 

Wong SK*, Kaneko R, Masumoto S, Kitagawa R, Mori AS, Uchida M. (2022) Functional Gene Composition of Soil Microbial Communities Across a Latitudinal Gradient in the Arctic Region. Polar data Journal. 6: 1–8. 

Kitagawa R*, Masumoto S, Kaneko R, Uchida M, Mori AS. (2022) The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science. 33: e13112

Masumoto S*, Kitagawa R, Nishizawa K, Kaneko R, Osono T, Hasegawa M, Matsuoka S, Uchida M, Mori AS. (2021) Functionally explicit partitioning of plant β-diversity reveal soil fungal assembly in the subarctic tundra. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97: fiab129. 1–15.

Masumoto S*, Kitagawa R, Nishizawa K, Kaneko R, Osono T, Hasegawa M, Iimura Y, Mori AS, Uchida M. (2021) Plant species and biomass, soil respiration, soil environment data on Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik, Quebec, Canada. Polar data journal. 5: 80–88. 

Wong SK*, Kaneko R, Masumoto S, Kitagawa R, Mori AS, Uchida M. (2021) Soil microbial composition and diversity in the Low Arctic tundra of Salluit. Polar data journal. 5: 54–59.

Nishizawa K*, Deschamps L, Maire V, Bêty J, Lévesque E, Kitagawa R, Masumoto S, Gosselin I, Morneault A, Rochefort L, Gauthier G, Tanabe Y, Uchida M, Mori AS. (2021) Long-term consequences of goose exclusion on nutrient cycles and plant communities in the High-Arctic. Polar Science. 27: 100631. 1–13. 

Matsuoka S*, Doi H, Masumoto S, Kitagawa R, Nishizawa K, Tanaka K, Hasegawa M, Hobara S, Osono T, Mori AS, Uchida M. (2021) Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of fungi in a forest-tundra ecotone in Quebec. Polar Science. 27: 100594. 1–7. 

Masumoto S*, Kitagawa R, Nishizawa K, Osono T, Hasegawa M, Iimura Y, Matsuoka S, Kaneko R, Uchida M, Mori AS. (2021) Integrative assessment of the effects of shrub coverage on soil respiration in a tundra ecosystem. Polar Science. 27: 100562. 1–9. 

Hirawake T*, Uchida M, Abe H, Alabia ID, Hoshino T, Masumoto S, Mori AS, Nishioka J, Nishizawa B, Ooki A, Takahashi A, Tanabe Y, Tojo M, Tsuji M, Ueno H, Waga H, Watanabe Y, Yamaguchi A, Yamashita Y. (2021) Response of Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem to environmental changes: Findings from the ArCS project. Polar Science. 27: 100533. 1–8. 

Kitagawa R*, Masumoto S, Nishizawa K, Kaneko R, Osono T, Hasegawa M, Uchida M, Mori AS. (2019) Positive interaction facilitates landscape homogenization by shrub expansion in the forest–tundra ecotone. Journal of Vegetation Science. 31: 234–244. 

Masumoto S*, Tojo M, Imura S, Herrero ML, Uchida M. (2018) Occurrence pattern of the parasitic fungus Rhytisma polare (Ascomycota) on the polar willow (Salix polaris) under limited water conditions in a high-Arctic semi-desert. Polar Biology. 41: 1105–1110.

Masumoto S*, Uchida M, Tojo M, Herrero ML, Mori AS, Imura S. (2018) The effect of tar spot pathogen on host plant carbon balance and its possible consequences on a tundra ecosystem. Oecologia. 186: 843–853. 

Masumoto S*, Tojo M, Uchida M, Imura S. (2015) Morphological and molecular characterization of Rhytisma filamentosum sp. nov. from Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Mycological Progress. 14: 44. 1–6. 

Masumoto S*, Tojo M, Uchida M, Imura S. (2014) Rhytisma polaris: morphological and molecular characterization of a new species from Spitsbergen Island, Norway. Mycological Progress. 13: 181–188. 

Masumoto S, Shigyo T, Tojo M*. (2009) Phytium snow blight of Kentucky bluegrass turf in a golf course in Hokkaido, Japan. 芝草研究. 38: 33–36. 

Masumoto S. (2019) Pathogenic Fungi on Vascular Plants in the Arctic: Diversity, Adaptation, Effect on Host and Ecosystem, and Response to Climate Change. In: Tsuji M, Hoshino T. (eds), Fungi in Polar Regions. pp 44-66. CRC press, Oxford.

Tojo M, Masumoto S, Hoshino T. (2013) Phytopathogenic Fungi and Fungal-like Microbes in Svalbard. In: Imai R, Yoshida M, Matsumoto N. (eds), Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold in a Changing World. pp 263-284. Springer, New York.

増本 翔太・辻 雅晴・星野 保・東條 元昭・内田 雅己 (2020) 北極圏陸域における生態系機能‐生物多様性の関係の実態把握. 北極域研究推進プロジェクト 2015-2020 研究成果報告書. pp115-116