Investigating the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functions in coastal areas (2008)
Nakaoka, Masahiro, Aizawa, Akihito, Demise, Teruko, Era, Takuya, Kato, Shuko, Watanabe, Kentaro
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...
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,...
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...
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,...