Artificial reefs are beneficial to restore fishery resources and increase fishery production.
Meanwhile, they play a significant role in improving ocean ecology and accelerating the …

WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHAT ARE OUR CAPABILITIES? Modeling physical and
biological systems has rapidly progressed in terms of the spatial and temporal resolution …

In a hydrodynamic sense, a coral reef is a complex array of obstacles that exerts a net drag
force on water moving over the reef. This drag is typically parameterized in ocean circulation …

The Ryukyu Islands, Japan, where numerous boulders are deposited on the reef and on
land, might be ideal research fields of boulders deposited by tsunami and storm waves …

Microalgal-based indicators were used to assess terrestrial influence on Shiraho coral reef
of Ishigaki Island (Okinawa, Japan). A typhoon occurred on 4–5 August 2005 and sampling …

Radon (222Rn) measurements were conducted in Shiraho Reef (Okinawa, Japan) to
investigate nearshore submarine groundwater discharge (SGDnearshore) dynamics …

For the preservation and protection of coral habitats along the Nansei Archipelago in the
East China Sea, a submesoscale eddy‐resolving synoptic ocean model was developed …

Black pearl farming is the second source of French Polynesia income after tourism, and
Gambier Islands are the main farming sites. Gambier main lagoon contains several sub …

Carbon captured by marine living organisms is called “blue carbon”, and seagrass
meadows are a dominant blue carbon sink. However, our knowledge of how seagrass …

A coupled wave-circulation numerical model of Hanalei Bay, Hawaii, was constructed to
investigate controls on nearshore hydrodynamics and overall circulation of a bathymetrically …