Dr. Nobuhiro Kaneko

Fukushima University, japan

Nobuhiro Kaneko is currently a professor of agriculture and food science at Fukushima University. Before that he worked as a professor of soil ecology at Yokohama National University. He gained his PhD. degree on forest ecology at Kyoto University. He studied the life cycles and community structures of oribatid mites, and their effects on litter decomposition in a beech forest. After he moved to Shimane University, he focused on nutrient cycling in coppice and slush-burn forests in western Japan. He studied fungal-invertebrate interactions at University Calgary and he also did ecological risk analysis on soil contamination at Vrjie University, Amsterdam. Effects of the periodical millipede as a soil ecosystem engineer are his life long study. Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in "natural farming (ultimate conservation agriculture)" is his current study theme. He is proposing biological decontamination of forest soil polluted by radiocesium after Fukushima nuclear plant accident. He serves as a chairperson of Japanese Society of Soil Zoology since 2012.