The first book focusing on the ecological impacts of the Great Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunamis on coastal ecosystems Examines the Great East Japan Earthquake, one of the largest ecological disturbances in the past 1000 years Provides critical information on the ecological impacts of large-scale disaster events Suggests key ideas for conserving and managing coastal ecosystems and reducing the risks posed by natural disasters Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Jotaro Urabe: Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aquatic Ecology Tohru Nakashizuka: Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Forest Ecology

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Inhalt
1 Outline of the Great East Japan Earthquake.- Part I Aquatic Ecosystems.- 2 Succession of an intertidal community on a jetty on the northeast coast of Honshu Island after the Great East Japan Earthquake .- 3 Rocky Intertidal Zonation: Impacts and Recovery from the 2011 Tohoku Megaquake.- 4 Quantitative Evaluation of the Impact of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami on the Rocky Intertidal Community.- 5 Rocky Intertidal Barnacle Population Dynamics: Impacts and Recovery from the 2011 Tohoku Megaquake.- 6 Ecological impacts of earthquake and tsunami and the following succession on the subtidal macrobenthic community in Onagawa Bay, northeastern Japan, with special reference to the dominant taxon, polychaetes.- 7 Ecological consequences of the tsunamis caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent disturbance events in a shallow brackish lagoon in Sendai Bay, Japan.- 8 Impacts of the tsunami disaster caused by the 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake on the benthic communitiesand their recovery in tidal flats of Matsukawaura Lagoon, Soma, Japan.- 9 Colonization of the restored and newly created tidal flats by benthic animals in the Sanriku region of northern Japan.- 10 Effects of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake on intertidal macrobenthos in Iwate Prefecture.- 11 Ecological responses of macrobenthic communities in tidal flats to disturbances by the Great East Japan Earthquake .- 12 The effects of liquefaction, tsunami and land subsidence on intertidal mollusks following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.- 13 Ecological impacts and recovery of molluscan populations after the tsunami struck around Matsushima Bay and Sendai Bay, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan.- 14 Genetic structures of Euspira fortunei metapopulations along the northeast coast of Japan after the tsunamis caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake.- 15 Impacts of fuel spills caused by the 2011 Japanese tsunami on the subtidal soft-bottom communities of a semi-enclosed bay locatedon the Sanriku coast.- Part II Terrestrial Ecosystems.- 16 Impact of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami on coastal vegetation and landscapes in Northeast Japan: Findings based on remotely sensed data analysis.- 17 Susceptibility of sandy-beach flora to the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami in northern Tohoku, Japan.- 18 The species composition of buried seeds of seashore vegetation disturbed by the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami in northern Tohoku, Japan.- 19 Plant diversity and considerations for conservation of it in infrastructure reconstruction planning after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011.- 20 Regeneration of damaged coastal forests caused by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami.- 21 Flora of freshwater wetlands in the tsunami-affected zone of the Tohoku region.- 22 Influences of large, infrequent disturbance caused by tsunami on coastal forest communities.- 23 Survey of Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on the Natural Environment in Tohoku Coastal Regions.