Naoto Shinohara

Naoto is a community ecologist interested in community assembly and species coexistence. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2020, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Tohoku University, and Kyoto University, investigating community assembly rules and species coexistence mechanisms across diverse ecosystems. At OIST, he will develop an empirical framework to quantitatively assess species coexistence in spatial systems and examine the extent to which environmental heterogeneity contributes to maintaining species diversity in nature.