About

Prof. Dr. Tati Suryati Syamsudin, M.S., DEA.

The Ecology Research Group consists of ten lecturers with various backgrounds in the field of study, all of whom have a vision to achieve healthy and sustainable ecosystem conditions so that they can contribute to the achievement of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda. In general, studies in the Ecology Group depart from efforts to answer various global issues in the field of Ecology / environment, namely: a) disruption of biogeochemical cycle equilibrium; b) carbon dynamics; c) decline in hydrological functions; d) land use change and habitat loss; e) dynamics and changes in biodiversity; f) invasive and/or exotic species; g) anthropogenic disturbances; h) pests and diseases. The forms of research, education (scientific development) and community service carried out by the Ecology Group to answer the challenges of these national and global issues can be divided into 4 (four) main fields of study, namely: 1) Ecosystem responses to global anthropogenic disturbances; 2) Ecosystem adaptive potential; 3) Ecosystem functions and services; 4) Complexity of interactions between ecosystem components.

Through community service activities, lecturers in the Ecology Research Group play an active role in increasing public awareness of the importance of biodiversity and the impacts of climate change, which are currently the focus of studies in the environmental field both at the national and global levels.

Since 2021, in order to strengthen international networks, the Ecology Research Group has invited four lecturers and researchers from Hiroshima University, Japan in the visiting professornamely Prof. Toshihiro Yamada, Prof. Toshinori Okuda, Tetsuro Hosaka, Ph.D., and Miyabi Nakabayashi, Ph.D., to give a public lecture on the topicBiodiversity and Ecological Interaction in Tropical Rainforest Ecosystemn addition, one of the lecturers of the Ecology Group also conducted joint research with Prof. Lars Hein from Wageningen University, the Netherlands for ecological studies based on remote sensing and geospatial information systems. By optimizing the potential of internal human resources and extensive networks, KK Ecology is expected to be able to contribute to solving environmental problems both at the national and global levels.