Species list

Vascular plant species

You can observe 358 vascular plants that belong to 88 families and 219 genera: 123 woody species, 203 herbaceous species, and 32 fern species. There are records of 2 alien species, i.e., pokeweeds (Phytolacca americana) and red morning glory (Ipomoea coccinea).

Reference: Takuto Shitara, Shoji Naoe, Mitsue Shibata, Tetsuya Matsui, Kaoru Niiyama, Hiroshi Tanaka, Tohru Nakashizuka (2024). Floral list of wild vascular plants in and around Ogawa research site of Japan. Bulletin of the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute 23: 29-34. (in Japanese with English summary, figure and table) 

Woody Species

You can observe a variety of plants including 12 species of the maple genus. As a provisional version, only the list of 121 woody species is released. 

Reference: unpublished data.

As for community structure of common tree species, please check a reference below.

Takashi Masaki, Wajirou Suzuki, Kaoru Niiyama, Shigeo Iida, Hiroshi Tanaka, Tohru Nakashizuka (1992) Community structure of a species-rich temperate forest, Ogawa Forest Reserve, central Japan. Vegetatio 64: 45-111.

You can observe bird species as many as in primary forests. There are records of alien species such as Chinese bamboo partridge, hwamei, and red-billed leiothrix.

Reference: Hitoshi Tojo (2009) Breeding bird community of the Ogawa Forest Reserve, an old-growth deciduous forest in central Japan. Ornithological Science 8: 105-115.