HISASHI ABE
TITLE: Professor, Laboratory of Applied Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan.
EDUCATION: B.Agr., Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 1956.
M. Agr., Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 1958.
D. Agr., Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 1961.
POSITIONS: Research Fellow, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 1961-1969.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 1969-1992.
Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 1992-present.
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Many field trips in and around northern Japan since 1965, plus the following overseas field experiences: Hokkaido University Scientific Expedition to Nepal, Himalayas, March-August 1968; Hokkaido University Agrobiologial Exp
edition to Nepal, Himalayas, August-October 1975; four field seasons in Thailand, southeast Asia, July-August 1978, February 1979, August-September 1980, July-August 1982; Malaysia, July-August 1985; three field seasons in northern U.S.A., June 1988, July
1989, July-August 1990.
PUBLICATIONS: Since 1967, 33 scientific publications on the taxonomy, distribution, ecology, age determination, growth and development, and food habits of small mammals.
Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:
- ABE, H. 1983. Variation and taxonomy of Niviventer fulvescens and notes on the Niviventer group of rats in Thailand. Jour. Mamm. Soc. Japan, 9(4): 151-161.
- ABE, H. 1988. Age determination, growth, and sexual dimorphism of the feral mink (Mustela vison) in Hokkaido. Jour. Mamm. Soc. Japan, 13(1): 63-75 (with N. Kondo, T. Saitoh, and K. Uraguchi).
- ABE, H. 1988. Redescription and multivariate morphometrics of Moguranema nipponicus Yamaguchi, 1941. Japan. Jour. Vet. Res., 36: 223-233 (with Y. Yokohata and M. Kamiya).
- ABE, H. 1989. Effects of reduced vertical space and arboreal food supply on densities of three forest rodents. Jour. Mamm. Soc. Japan, 14(1): 43-52 (with T. Shida and T. Saitoh).
- ABE, H. 1993. The persistence of moles in nesting at the same sites as indicated by mushroom fruiting and nest reconstruction. Canad. Jour. Zool., in press.
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