Immediate ecological impacts of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami on intertidal flat communities.

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, a large tsunami developed and struck the Pacific coast of eastern Japan. To assess the immediate impacts of the tsunami on coastal communities, changes in taxon composition and richness of macrobenthic animals before and after the tsunami were exami...

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Main Authors: Jotaro Urabe, Takao Suzuki, Tatsuki Nishita, Wataru Makino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3641098?pdf=render