Successions of benthic/planktonic community structure and environmental factors in estuaries and tidal-flats

Fiscal Year

2014

Title

Successions of benthic/planktonic community structure and environmental factors in estuaries and tidal-flats

Project and Theme

Project 1. Study on ecological succession of fisheries ground
Representative Organization: Tohoku University
Theme3. Research on the coastal fisheries resources and the tidal flat faunas off Miyagi Prefecture
Representative personSatoshi Katayama
OrganizationTohoku University
DepartmentGraduate School of Agricultural Science

Research Information

Period and Interval
2014/04/01 - 2015/03/31
monthly
Research Area
Estuaries and tidal flats in the Sendai Bay
Category
Field survey
Overview
Estuaries and tidal flats are one of the most important environments in marine ecosystem. Monitoring environmental factors of water and sediment qualities, and investigating species composition and biomass in macrobenthos and plankton in these waters are necessary to understand their successions after the great earthquake and tsunami in tidal flats not only from the point of ecology but also from the fishery science.

Investigation Item and Data Acquisition

Investigation ItemData Acquisition
water and sediment quality surveywater temperature, salinity, pH, DO, sediment grains
macrobenthos monitoringspecies composition and biomass of the macrobenthos
plankton monitoringspecies composition and biomass of the phytoplankton and zooplankton

Reference

Related Observation Result
FY2014 Successions of benthic/planktonic community structure and environmental factors in estuaries and tidal-flats

Person in charge of Investigation

Representative personGoh Nishitani
OrganizationTohoku University
DepartmentGraduate School of Agricultural Science

Keywords

Fiscal Year2014
OrganizationTohoku University
CategoryField survey
Research AreaSouth Sanriku
Ishinomaki Bay
DisciplineOcean physics -> Water temperature
Ocean physics -> Salinity
Ocean chemistry -> Dissolved oxygen
Ocean chemistry -> Nutrients
Ocean environment -> Nutrients
Ocean environment -> Transparency
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Biological classification
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Biomass
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Ecology
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Mollusks
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Plankton
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Seaweed beds / Tidal flats distribution