Huge tsunami waves associated with megathrust earthquakes have a severe impact on
shallow marine ecosystems. We investigated the impact of a tsunami generated by the 2011 …

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, a large tsunami developed and struck
the Pacific coast of eastern Japan. To assess the immediate impacts of the tsunami on …

Burrow-dwelling shrimps, formerly known as “thalassinids,” are attracting the attention of
researchers as ecosystem engineers. This review focuses on the ecology of upogebiid …

The huge tsunami waves induced by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake
severely affected shallow marine ecosystems along the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan …

A huge tsunami is one of the greatest disturbance events in coastal benthic communities,
although the ecological consequences are not fully understood. Here we examined the …

Meiofaunal assemblages inhabiting the landward slope of the Japan Trench (water depth,
120–5600 m) were examined 4.5 months and 1.5 years after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake …

The infrastructure reconstructions after the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) and related
attempts on biodiversity conservation were categorized and reviewed. Seawalls and wave …

Impacts of the 2011 tsunami disaster were investigated in a shallow brackish lagoon (Gamo
Lagoon) in Sendai City, Japan. The tsunami caused drastic changes in lagoon topography …

Abstract Information on early invasion stages, whether successful or not, is often lacking
because most invaders are only discovered once they have become abundant enough to be …

We report the first direct evidence for the transoceanic transport of living marine Ostracoda.
Seven benthic, phytal species, Sclerochilus verecundus Schornikov, 1981, Sclerochilus sp …