Nobuyuki Tanaka

Canna discolor var. discolor (Lindl.) Nb.Tanaka

Nobuyuki Tanaka is an economic botanist at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, the Makino Botanical Garden in Kōchi prefecture, Japan and the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan.

Tanaka is an expert on the family Cannaceae, and in 2001 published a revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia.^[1]

The standard author abbreviation Nob.Tanaka is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

Publications

• Tetsuya Matsui, Tsutomu Yagihashi, Tomoki Nakaya, Hirosi Taoda, Shuichiro Yoshinaga, Hiromu Daimaru, Nobuyuki Tanaka (2004): Probability distributions, vulnerability and sensitivity in Fagus crenata forests following predicted climate changes in Japan, in Journal of Vegetation Science Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 605-614 [1]
• Tetsuya Matsui, Tsutomu Yagihashi, Tomoki Nakaya, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Taoda (2004): Climatic controls on distribution of Fagus crenata forests in Japan, in Journal of Vegetation Science Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 57-66 [2]
• Nobuyuki Tanaka (2004): The utilization of edible Canna plants in southeastern Asia and southern China in Economic Botany 52 (1) pp 112-114 The New York Botanical Garden.[3]
• Naoko Yamashita, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Yoshio Hoshi, Hiromichi Kushima, Koichi Kamo (2003): Seed and seedling demography of invasive and native trees of subtropical Pacific islands. in Journal of Vegetation Science Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 15-24 [4]

References

Notes

1. ^ Tanaka, N. 2001. Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia. Makinoa ser. 2, 1:34–43
2. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

External links

• The utilization of edible Canna plants in southeastern Asia and southern China
• On the Genus Canna in Yaeyama Islands, the Ryukyus, Japan
• Edible Canna and its Starch: An Under-Exploited Starch-Producing Plant Resource
• Progress in the Development of Economic Botany and Knowledge of Food Plants.
• The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) Newsletter Jan 2008

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