SEN TAKENAKA

TITLE:

Professor, Research Institute for Higher Educational Programs, Hokkaido Tokai University, Sapporo 006, Japan.

EDUCATION:

B.S., University of Ibaraki, 1973.

M.S., Tokyo Kyoiku University, 1977.

Ph.D., University of Tsukuba, 1982.

POSITIONS:

Lecturer, Tokai University, 1983-1988.

Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Higher Educational Programs, Hokkaido Tokai University, 1988-1993.

Professor, Research Institute for Higher Educational Programs, Hokkaido Tokai University, 1993-present.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Numerous herpetological collecting expeditions throughout Japan since 1975, in addition to the following: Korean Herpetological Expedition, 1984, Chungchon, Republic of Korea; Lazovskii Herpetological Expedition, 1990, Lazov skii Nature Reservation, Lazo, Primorskii, Russia; Russian Far East Herpetological Expedition, 1991, Ussuri, Khabarovsk, and Southern Sakhalin Island.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1978, 21 scientific publications on the taxonomy, distribution, ecology, behavior, and reproductive and population biology of amphibians and reptiles.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• TAKENAKA, S. 1982. Trends in ecological studies of lizard reproduction. Trans. Soc. Pop. Ecol., 36: 1-10.

• Moriguchi, H., and S. TAKENAKA. 1984. Reptiles and amphibians of Kaminokuni, Hokkaido. Jour. Nippon Herp. Soc., 28: 1-22.

• TAKENAKA, S. 1986. Amphibians and reptiles of Itabashi, Tokyo. Rept. Fauna Itabashi, 8: 149-154.

• TAKENAKA, S. 1988. Reproductive ecology of Japanese lacertid lizards. Curr. Herp. East Asia, 3: 364-389.

• TAKENAKA, S. 1993. Amphibians and reptiles of Hokkaido, and their distribution. pp. 103-112, In: S. Higashi, A. Osawa, and K. Kanagawa (eds.), Biodiversity and Ecology in the Northernmost Japan. Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press.