Masahiro Nakaoka

Tsunami Impacts on Biodiversity of Seagrass Communities in the Andaman Sea, Thailand: (2) Abundance and Diversity of Benthic Animals (2007)

WHANPETCH, NAPAKHWAN, NAKAOKA, MASAHIRO, MUKAI, HIROSHI, SUZUKI, TAKAO, NOJIMA, SATOSHI, KAWAI, TAKASHI, ...

Seagrass beds support highly productive and diverse animal communities. Extreme physical disturbances such as tsunamis are expected to affect the abundance and diversity of both the seagrass and the...

Tsunami Impacts on Biodiversity of Seagrass Communities in the Andaman Sea, Thailand: (1) Seagrass Abundance and Diversity (2007)

NAKAOKA, MASAHIRO, TANAKA, YOSHIYUKI, MUKAI, HIROSHI, SUZUKI, TAKAO, ARYUTHAKA, CHITTIMA

Evaluation of the impact of a catastrophic disturbance on biodiversity is often difficult due to a lack of sufficient quantitative data on biological communities prior to the disturbance. Since 2001,...

Species diversity and abundance of seagrasses in southwestern Thailand under different influence of river discharge (2004)

Nakaoka, Masahiro, Tanaka, Yoshiyuki, Watanabe, Masako

Seagrass beds are among the most important components in coastal ecosystem, but are susceptible to human-induced changes in terrestrial ecosystem. As a first step to understand the effects of...

Distribution, productivity, life history and biodiversity of seagrass community along Sanriku Coast: A review (2003)

Nakaoka, Masahiro, Aioi, Keiko, Kouchi, Naoko, Omori, Yuji, Tanaka, Norio, Tatsukawa, Ken-ichi

The seagrass flora in Japan is characterized by the occurrence of several species of Zosteraceae that are considered to be endemic to the northwestern Pacific. In seagrass beds along Sanriku Coast,...