| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
|
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I observed home range and microhabitat use of 10 damselfish species in a quadrat including 4 small patch reefs, on Shiraho Reef, Ishigaki Island, 2017, in order to know effects of interspecific trade-off between superior competitors that occupy particular microhabitats and superior dispersers that move between reefs using several microhabitats on the SLOSS issue (a Single-Large-Or-Several-Small habitats, which is better in terms of species richness, if the total area is equivalent). As a typhoon had hit on Shiraho Reef, 2015, moving several small patch reefs, I could not use commercial aerial photographs as observational maps and had to take photos using a drone by myself. Consequently, niche-partitioning and the interspecific trade-off were well observed and multiple species coexistence was attributable to “several small patch reefs”. However, the sample size was insufficient because the drone took much time. In 2018, I am still going to continue the observations without this grant.
|
