Name

Yuki Baba, Ph.D.

Position

Researcher (2012~), Biodiversity Division

Career

1998-2002:	B.S. Division of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, KyushuUniversity
2002-2004:	M.S. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The Universityof Tokyo
2004-2008:	Ph.D. (Agriculture) Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2008-2009:	Post-doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2009-2011:	Post-doctoral Researcher, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Science
2012-Present:	Researcher, Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Science

Research Interest

Biology of spiders, Behavioral Ecology, Landscape Ecology

Web site

https://sites.google.com/site/kargyrodes/home/in-english

Contact

ybaba(a)affrc.go.jp

Relevant Publications

Baba YG, Kusahara M, Maezono Y, Miyashita T 2014 Adjustment of web-building initiation to high humidity: a constraint by humidity-dependent thread stickiness in the spider Cyrtarachne. Naturwissenchaften 101: 587-593
Baba YG 2013 Two new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 62: 103-107
Baba YG, Walters RJ, Miyashita T 2013 Complex latitudinal variation in the morphology of the kleptoparasitic spider Argyrodes kumadai associated with the host use and climatic conditions. Population Ecology 55:43-51
Baba YG, Osada Y, Miyashita T 2012 The effect of host web complexity on prey stealing success in a kleptoparasitic spider mediated by locomotor performance. Animal Behaviour 83:1261-1268
Baba YG, Walters RJ, Miyashita T 2007 Host-dependent difference in prey acquisition between populations in kleptoparasitic spider Argyrodes kumadai (Araneae: Theridiidae). Ecological Entomology 32:38-44
Baba Y, Miyashita T 2006 Does individual internal state affect the presence of a barrier web in Argiope bruennichii (Araneae: Araneidae)? Journal of Ethology 24:75-78
Baba YG, Miyashita T 2005 Geographical host change between populations in Argyrodes kumadai associated with distribution of two host species. Acta Arachnologica 54:75-76
Baba Y 2003 Testing for the effect of detritus stabilimenta on foraging success in Cyclosa octotuberculata (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica 52:1-3
Amano T, Kusumoto Y, Okamura H, Baba YG, Hamasaki K, Tanaka K, Yamamoto S 2011 A macro-scale perspective on within-farm management: how climate and topography alter the effect of farming practices. Ecology Letters 14:1263-1272
Takada M, Baba YG, Yanagi Y, Terada S, Miyashita T 2008 Contrasting responses of web-building spiders to deer browsing among habitats and feeding guilds. Environmental Entomology 37:938-946

Review

Baba YG, Takada MB 2015 Spider ecology in agroecosystems: from field-plot scale to nation-wide scale (In Japanese). SEIBUTSU KAGAKU 66:101-111
Katayama N, Baba YG, Kusumoto Y, Tanaka K 2015 A review of post-war changes in rice farming and biodiversity in Japan. Agricultural Systems 132:73-84

Books

Baba YG, Tanikawa A 2015 The Handbook of Spiders (In Japanese), Bunichisogoshuppan, Tokyo, Japan
Baba YG 2015 Spiders in rice paddy ecosystems. In: Miyashita T (ed) Frontiers in spider science: from evolution to environments, 139-160 (In Japanese), The HOKURYUKAN, Tokyo, Japan