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Trophic structure of coral reef zooplankton
Coral reefs are a hot spot in marine ecological study. Although these ecosystems account for only 0.1% of the world ocean area, their fish production supports ca. 10% of the world’s fish sto…
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Deep-sea conservation
Continuous decline of marine biodiversity is one of the critical issues in our o…
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The role of coral mucus 101
Why do corals release mucus?Corals are known to release mucus from their body …
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The Amazon River: High fish abundance in the confl…
In the center of the Amazon River basin, white water of the Amazon River meets w…
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Zooplankton community changes over monsoons in a M…
Ryota and his colleagues investigated zooplankton community in a coral reef of M…
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Sea-surface microlayer is rich in microbes over co…
Do you know the sea-surface microlayer?The sea-surface microlayer is the thi…
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What happens after drilling the deep-sea floor?
Ryota and his team monitored the benthic ecosystem at 1,060 m depth …
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Typhoon enhances the production of bacteria and ph…
Kenji Tsuchiya and his colleagues investigated responses of bacteria and phytopl…
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The first multi-hectare scale 3D survey of a deep-…
Blair Thornton and his colleagues investigated the distribution of megabenthos o…
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COTS larvae can take up organic matter derived fro…
Previous studies have suggested that Crown-of-Thorns starfish (COTS) larvae may …
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Ryota Nakajima, Ph.D.
Ryota is a biological oceanographer at JAMSTEC, Japan, with major interests in deep-sea and coral reef ecology.
