特集：土木工学と生態学の壁はとりのぞかれたか？
Feature: The wall between civil engineering and ecology has been removed?
総説　REVIEW

生息場の科学としての応用生態工学

竹門　康弘

京都大学防災研究所水資源環境研究センター　〒611-0011　宇治市五ヵ庄

Yasuhiro TAKEMON： Ecology and Civil Engineering as a science of habitat. Ecol. Civil Eng. 10(1), 41-46, 2007.

Water Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji 611-0011, Japan

Abstract:In order to show inclinations of ecology and civil engineering researches in these ten years, a total of 145 papers printed in 16 books of 9 volumes of Ecology Civil Engineering (from 1st to 9th Volume) have been overviewed and classified from aspects of study methods, objectives, target ecosystems, ecological subjects focussed on, physico-chemical factors dealt in the paper, and spatial scales for the study. Recent increase in the number of original papers and case study papers shows a sound condition of the society at present. The papers are characterized by prevailing number of topics on river and estuary, aspects of habitat structure for biological populations and communities, descriptive works on human impacts on ecosystems, field work-approaches for research, and flow regimes, inundations, sediment dynamism and longitudinal connectivity as physico-chemical factors for habitat traits. In order to integrate ecology and civil engineering into an original field of science, more works aiming at prediction of ecological phenomena using engineering methods are required as well as those for finding out physical mechanisms of habitat structure based on ecological methods. One of our goals may be to establish "Habitatology" defined by "science for structure, function and maintenance mechanisms of habitat".

Key words:integration, ecology and civil engineering, habitat structure, habitatology, maintenance mechanism

* e-mail: takemon@wrcs.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp