Immediate Ecological Impacts of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami on Intertidal Flat Communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Urabe, Jotaro ^a   Suzuki, Takao ^a   Nishita, Tatsuki ^a   Makino, Wataru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; COASTAL WATERS; CRAB; EARTHQUAKE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; JAPAN; MACROBENTHOS; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; SESSILE SPECIES; SNAIL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TSUNAMI; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIODIVERSITY; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; JAPAN; SNAILS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84877044993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062779     Document Type: Article

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