A paper co-authored by Professor Kentaro Takagi of Hokkaido University’s Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere has been published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

• Ruiqi Ma, Kentaro Takagi, Toshiaki Kondo, Jun Koarashi, Mariko Atarashi-Andoh, Kobayashi Makoto, Maricar Aguilos, Kira Ryhti-Laine, Lifei Sun, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Takashi Hirano, Naishen Liang. Continuous acceleration of soil heterotrophic respiration over 16 years of soil warming in a sub-boreal forested peatland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Volume 221, 2026, 110212, ISSN 0038-0717
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2026.110212

Read the press release here (in Japanese)