2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Studies on fragile unicellular marine plankton : fauna and population dynamics
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20570089
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Biodiversity/Systematics
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| Research Institution | Nagasaki University |
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Principal Investigator |
SUZUKI Toshikazu Nagasaki University, 水産学部, 教授 (20284713)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | プランクトン / 生物相 / 個体群動態 |
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| Research Abstract |
Among the unicellular marine plankton, I have been focusing on naked spirotrich ciliates (class Spirotrichea), which are extremely fragile but universally occurred in the surface ocean, and have cleared their fauna through some improvements of staining and observation methods. The main results obtained in this study are as follows : (1) occurrence-and-disappearance characters in many species are strongly depending on salinity environment (rather than temperature) around the coastal area of Nagasaki, (2) spirotrich ciliates are favorably grazing on small-sized diatoms with their smoothed outline among various types of diatoms, (3) intra-species variations were more or less observed in many species and the extend of variation was estimated through the accurate morphometric description.
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[Journal Article] Complex vertical migration of larvae of the ghost shrimp, Nihonotrypaea harmandi, in inner shelf waters of western Kyushu, Japan.2010
Author(s)
Tamaki, A., S.Mandal, Y.Agata, I.Aoki, T.Suzuki, H.Kanehara, T.Aoshima, Y.Fukuda, H.Tsukamoto, T.Yanagi
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Journal Title
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 82
Pages: 125-136
Peer Reviewed
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