A5055431431- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency
2018-2023
Nagasaki University
2010-2020
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2019
Japan Science and Technology Agency
2010-2014
University of the Ryukyus
2010-2014
University of the Ryukyus University Hospital
2012
Kyushu University
2000-2008
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 621:1-17 (2019) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12980 FEATURE ARTICLE Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical increase N. Price1,*, S. Muko2, L. Legendre3, R. Steneck4, M. J. H. van Oppen5,6, Albright5,7,18, P. Ang Jr.8, C. Carpenter9, A. Y. Chui8, T.-Y. Fan10, D....
Abstract Small pelagic fishes are used for human consumption, fishmeal and fish oil. They constitute 25% of global catch have been considerable conservation concern because their intermediate position in aquatic food webs, often being a dominant dietary component marine predators. This paper provides an overview trends abundance fishing pressure on small stocks from single‐species scientific assessments that 60% catch. While most individual exhibited wide variability (typical pelagics...
Compiled abundances of juvenile corals revealed no change over time in the Pacific, but a decline Caribbean. Using these analyses as rationale, we explored recruitment and post-settlement success determining coral cover using studies Caribbean (St John, Bonaire) Pacific (Moorea, Okinawa). Juvenile corals, recruits, have been censused locations for years, ratio (J) to recruiting (R) was used measure success. In St John Bonaire, stable different between studies, with density juveniles recruits...
Populations of marine organisms on coral reef islands (CRI) are connected in space and time by seawater that transports propagules plants, animals, algae. Yet, despite this reality, it is often assumed routine replenishment populations CRI supported locally-sourced (hereafter, larvae). Following large disturbances, however, distantly-sourced larvae from less disturbed within a regional meta-population likely to be important for local population recovery, but evaluating the roles locally-...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 593:141-154 (2018) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12491 Long-term change in distribution of Japanese sardine Sea Japan during population fluctuations Soyoka Muko1,*, Seiji Ohshimo1, Hiroyuki Kurota1, Tohya Yasuda1, Masa-Aki Fukuwaka1,2 1Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, and Education Agency,...
Interspecific interactions that produce nontransitive competitive networks have been proposed to promote diversity in a broad range of systems, including coral reefs. In this paper, we model the effect size-dependent shifts ability on coexistence canopy-forming and understory species, predict how these influence patterns community structure along large-scale gradients disturbance recruitment limitation. We consider three models, representing gradient from purely hierarchical competition...
Abstract Long‐term monitoring reveals coral community responses to multiple disturbances that allow us track their trajectories. We assessed the status of communities between 2000 and 2017 in Sekisei Lagoon adjacent areas Okinawa, Japan, using an analysis data collected from 196 research sites. Using categorical clustering, we ranked cover sites according five groups: (a) high, (b) intermediate, (c) low, (d) rapidly increasing (e) unrecovered cover. also identified composition assemblage...
Summary Corals are clonal organisms and show a plastic growth. We study partial differential equation model for the dynamics of size distribution corals predict trajectory recovery after catastrophic disturbance, such as recent bleaching that killed most in southern Japan. assume mean growth rate colony size, measured projected area, is linear function variance proportional to which consistent with data coral Acropora hyacinthus Dana 1846. The incorporates space‐limitation recruitment....
Large-scale coral bleaching for specific Acropora species was observed in two areas of Nagasaki coastal waters; Nomozaki (32°35′49.8′′N,129°45′ 27.3′′E) and Mie (32°48′15.6′′N, 129°43′49.6′′E), late March 2013.These are located near to the north ern limit large populations tabular corals on west side Japan (i.e., East China Sea).In Nomozaki,where sparsely inhabited (approximately 0.1 colonies • m -2 ), almost all (mean size＝48 cm diameter) had been bleached died (Figure 1).In Mie, nearly...
Spatial distributions of individuals are conventionally analysed by representing objects as dimensionless points, in which spatial statistics based on centre-to-centre distances. However, if organisms expand without overlapping and show size variations, such is the case for encrusting corals, interobject spacing crucial associations where interactions occur. We introduced new pairwise using minimum distances between demonstrated their utility when examining coral community data. also...
Using monitoring data from 1998 to 2017, we examined the spatiotemporal pattern of disturbances that occurred in Sekisei Lagoon, surrounded by Iriomote and Ishigaki islands Okinawa, Japan. Outbreaks crown- of-thorns starfish ( Acanthaster cf. solaris ), coral bleaching, typhoon damage, snail predation, occurrences growth anomalies, black band disease, white syndrome were investigated using generalized linear models. Likelihood ratio test indicated type assemblage, topographic features,...