Distribution and characteristics of seaweed/seagrass community in Kagoshima Bay, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

• TANAKA TOSHIHIRO

  Kagoshima Prefectural Fisheries Technology and Development Center (KPFTDC)

• YOSHIMITSU SATOSHI

  Kagoshima Prefectural Fisheries Technology and Development Center (KPFTDC)

• IMAYOSHI YUJI

  Kagoshima Prefectural Fisheries Technology and Development Center (KPFTDC)

• ISHIGA YOSHIE

  Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University

• TERADA RYUTA

  Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 鹿児島湾における藻場の分布と特性
• カゴシマワン ニ オケル モバ ノ ブンプ ト トクセイ

Abstract

  Distributions of seaweed/seagrass communities were determined from 230 sites along the coast of Kagoshima Bay, southern Japan, during a series of surveys in 2006. Sargassum (brown algae) and Zostera (angiosperm) communities were confirmed from 159 and 41 sites, respectively. Of the 19 species of Sargassum and Zostera confirmed in this study, distributional characteristics of 12 major species were also elucidated. Kagoshima Bay is comprised of three different areas (back, central part and mouth of the bay) as defined by the influence of waters entering the bay from the Kuroshio Current. Two Zostera species, Z. marina and Z. japonica, and four temperate species of Sargassum, S. fusiforme, S. hemiphyllum, S. patens, and S. piluliferum, were confirmed from all areas. Meanwhile, six subtropical and warm-temperate species, S. alternato-pinnatum, S. crispifolium, S. cristaefolium, S. duplicatum, S. glaucescens, and S. incanum, were not detected in Kagoshima Bay except for some sites, as indicated by a previous survey in 1976; however, we detected them from various sites in the central part and mouth of the bay. We suggest that these species appeared and developed communities in the past 30 years.<br>

Journal

• NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI

  NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI 79 (1), 20-30, 2013

  The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science

Keywords

• <i>Sargassum</i>
• <i>Zostera</i>

Details

• CRID: 1390001206417246976
• NII Article ID: 10031138561
• NII Book ID: AN00193422
• DOI: 10.2331/suisan.79.20
• ISSN: 1349998X
• ISSN: 00215392
• NDL BIB ID: 024245970
• Web Site: https://agriknowledge.affrc.go.jp/RN/2010850710
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I024245970
• Text Lang: ja
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