STAFF

( Prof Haruki TATSUTA   立田晴記  (Professor of the Ecology Laboratory) ) 　

Dr. Seiji ARAKAKI   新垣誠司  (Associate Professor): 　arakaki (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

• Community structure of shallow water fish assemblages
• Intertidal community ecology

Dr. NiNi Win   ニーニーウィン  (Assistant Professor): 　niniw (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

• Ecology, biogeography and taxonomy of brown algae
• Intertidal community ecology

Kentaro TANAKA  田中健太郎  (Technician/Boatman/Administrator):

Associated researchers

Prof. Mutsunori TOKESHI  渡慶次睦範  (exDirector of the Laboratory): tokeshi (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

Research area: community ecology in genera; theory of community structure and species coexistence in aquatic and terrestrial systems

• Community organization in multispecies systems, in particular empirical and theoretical studies of species abundance patterns
• Biogeography of tropical and temperate assemblages (SE Asia, Japan)
• Community structures of coastal marine systems in the tropical and subtropical Pacific (SE Asia, southern Japan, South America; intertidal and subtidal systems; mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms, fish)
• Analysis of river zoobenthos communities (collaboration with London University)
• Community ecology of coral and mangrove systems of South East Asia and South America (hermatypic and soft corals, echinoderms, sponges, fish, mangrove plants and associated insects)

Dr. Makoto YOKO-O  横尾 誠  (Collaborative researcher): 　yoko-o (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

• Plant-animal relationships in a subtropical maritime woodland
• Ecology of mangroves and mangrove-associated assemblages

Dr. Katsumasa Yamada 山田勝雅 (Research Fellow,Kumamoto University)　

• Benthos community ecology

Dr. Takashi KAWAI  (Tokyo Kyuei Co.; formerly JSPS Research Fellow)　

• Habitat use and coexistence in sessile filterers: mussels (Septifer) and goose barnacles (Capitulum)
• Community ecology of seagrass beds

Dr. Neil Hutchinson (James Cook University, Singapore Campus; formerly JSPS Research Fellow) 　

• The impact of mobile marine predators on low shore community structure

STUDENTS

Andrinanto Nurrahman (PhD student) : andri (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

• Assessment of coastal ecosystems using remote sensing techniques

Regina YEO SHU WEN (PhD student) :

• Ecology and phylogeny of marine algae in East Asian tropics/subtropics

Akari Matsutani (MSc student) 松谷朱莉: akarim (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

Takumi Obana (MSc student) 尾花拓海: takumi (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

Misuzu Sase (MSc student) 佐瀬三紗: misuzu (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

Masato Watanabe (MSc student) 渡邉理人: masatow(atmark)ambl-ku.jp

Taro Yamazaki (MSc student) 山�舞ｾ郎: taro(atmark) ambl-ku.jp

Riko Chinen (Undergraduate) 知念理子: rikoc(atmark) ambl-ku.jp

Shizuru Ichikawa (Undergraduate) 市川静琉: shizui(atmark) ambl-ku.jp

Shotaro Kinoshita (Undergraduate) 木下翔太郎: showtk(atmark) ambl-ku.jp

ALUMNI

Atsuko Tarumoto (BSc student) 樽本厚子: atsuko (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

• Body size spectra in coastal zooplankton assemblages

Naofumi Mitsunaga (MSc student) 光永直史   : naom (atmark) ambl-ku.jp　

• Population ecology and responses to environmental cues in Luciogobius spp.

Yumiko Osawa (PhD 2020) 大澤裕美子   : yumosa (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

• Community ecology of epibionts associated with an intertidal gastropod on subtropical rocky shores

Tsuyoshi Takafushi (PhD student-2021) 高伏　剛   　

• Relationship between body size and density in an invertebrate assemblage

Taku Hotta (PhD student-2021) 堀田拓   : hottaku (atmark) ambl-ku.jp

• Community ecology of sandy and rocky shore assemblages

Kaede Kaneko (MSc 2019) 金子楓   　

• Population ecology of holothurians in the subtropical intertidal

Fumihiro Kato (PhD student) 加藤史弘  

• Ecological relations among sessile benthos on subtropical rocky shores

Tomomi Hamasaki (MSc 2018) 濱崎智美   　

• Algal-benthos relationships in the subtropical intertidal

Yukiko Yoshida (MSc 2017) 吉田有喜子   　

• Ecology of sessile benthos on intertidal hard substrates

Tsujita Tetsuya (MSc 2017) 辻田哲也   　

• Ecology of a commensal gastropod

Katsuyuki Ishii (MSc 2014)

• Dynamics of habitat structure and stony shore assemblages

Kazunari Suzuki (MSc 2013) 　

• Ecological linkage between habitat structure and stony shore assemblages

Camila Namie Tatsch Kikuchi (PhD pending) 　

• Phylogenitic relationships of sharks and community structure of coastal marine fishes

Jusak Ratundelang Pahlano Daud (PhD pending) 　

• Community ecology of coral-associated assemblage

Miyoko KURIMOTO (PhD obtained 2011) 　

• The effects of hermit crabs on the calcareous alga Corallina pilulifera
• Monitoring of molluscs dynamic in intertidal area of subtropic island Iriomote

Takeshi Tanaka (MSc 2011) 田中丈士

• Ecology of limpets on exposed rocky shores

Edgardo Londono Cruz (PhD2007) 　

• Community ecology of mobile molluscs

Dr Kazunori YAMAHIRA (PhD, 1996) (Niigata University)

• The role of intertidal spawning on egg survival and the measurement of selection on the spawning tide level of the puffer Takifugu niphobles.

Machiko HIYAMA (MSc, 1996; doctoral research until 1998) (Fujitsu, Co)

• Life history patterns of isopods associated with Sargassum seaweeds.

Shin'ya IWASHITA (MSc 2000) (Environmental Consultancy)

• Patterns of resource utilization in intertidal hermit crabs.

Dr Hanny TIOHO (PhD, 2000) (Indonesia, Sam Ratulangi University)

• A study on the life history characteristics of a scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus) at high latitude (south-western Japan).

Dr Thamrin (PhD, 2001) (Indonesia, Riau University)

• Reproductive biology of a scleractinian coral Alveopora japonica Eguchi.

Atsuko KADONO (MSc, 2000; doctoral research until 2002) (Fisheries Dept, Chiba Prefectural Goverment)

• Microhabitat utilization in grazing gastropods on a stony shore.

Dr Naotomo OTA (JSPS Research Fellow)　 ota＠ambl-ku.jp

• Ecological and ecophysiological mechanisms of coexistence in carnivorous marine gastropods
• Biogeography and conservation biology of Western Pacific intertidal gastropods

Dr. Carolus PARUNTU (PhD, 2003) 　

• Intraspecific variability in Nerita (Gastropoda) 

Minako AZUMA (MSc student)　

• Dynamics of tidepool plant/animal assemblages on a temperate rocky shore

Daniela MURAMATSU (JICA trainee) 　

• Ecology of corals and coral monitoring

Tomoaki HIRAKAWA (PhD student) 　

• Grazing effects of sea urchins in coral reef systems
• Relationship between habitat structures and intertidal animal assemblages

Jun WATANABE (PhD student) 　

• Coexistence of intertidal acmaeid limpets

Aya MIYAZAKI  (MSc, 2004) 　

• Resource utlization in estuarine epifaunal/infaunal assemblages

Takaaki SAWADA (MSc student) 　

• Community ecology of macrobenthos in a river-estuarine ecotone

Kaori TOKIEDA   (BSc, 2003) 　

• Ecology of  grazing limpets in a stony intertidal habitat

Hiromi TANIGUCHI (PhD, 2005)

• Experimental studies of habitat complexity and the diversity of stream insect assemblages

Yoko NOZAWA (PhD, 2006)

• Establishment and maintenance of coral communities at high latitudes

Edgardo Londoño Cruz (PhD, 2007) 　

• Coexistence of mobile benthos on an intertidal boulder shore.

Andreas Kakaskasen Roeroe (MSc, 2006)

• The ecology of seagrass - associated organisms

Taishin Maedomari (MSc, 2006)

• The commensal relationship between Patteloida conulus and Batillaria cumingi