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More About This Title Kuroshio Current - Physical, Biogeochemical andEcosystem Dynamics
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An interdisciplinary study of the Kuroshio nutrient stream
The surface water of the Kuroshio, a western boundary current in the North Pacific Ocean, is nutrient-depleted and has relatively low primary productivity, yet abundant fish populations are supported in the region. This is called the “Kuroshio Paradox”.
Kuroshio Current: Physical, Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Dynamics presents research from a multidisciplinary team that conducted observational and modeling studies to investigate this contradiction. This timely and important contribution to the ocean sciences literature provides a comprehensive analysis of the Kuroshio.
Volume highlights include:
- New insights into the role of the Kuroshio as a nutrient stream
- The first interdisciplinary examination of the Kuroshio Paradox
- Reflections on the influence of the Kuroshio on Japanese culture
- Research results on both the lower and higher trophic levels in the Kuroshio ecosystem
- Comparisons of nutrient dynamics in the Kuroshio and Gulf Stream
- Predictions of ecosystem responses to future climate variability
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Takeyoshi Nagai, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology,Japan
Hiroaki Saito, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Koji Suzuki, Hokkaido University,Japan
Motomitsu Takahashi, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan
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Table of contents |
Contributors
Preface
Section I: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Kuroshio: its recognition, scientific activities and emerging issues
Hiroaki Saito
Chapter 2: The Research Advancements and Historical Episodes brought by the Kuroshio Flowing across Generations
Takeyoshi Nagai, Kazuyuki Otsuka, Hiroshi Nakano
Chapter 3: The Gulf Nutrient Stream
Pelegri, Josep, I. ValleÌs-Casanova, and D. Oruìe-Echevarria
Chapter 4: On the role of the Gulf Stream in the changing Atlantic nutrient circulation during the 21st century
Daniel Whitt
Section II: Physical and Biogeochemical Dynamics
Chapter 5: Structure and impact of the Kuroshio nutrient stream
Kosei Komatsu, Yutaka Hiroe
Chapter 6: Multiscale routes to supply nutrients through the Kuroshio nutrient stream Takeyoshi Nagai, Sophie Clayton, Yusuke Uchiyama
Chapter 7: Contribution of Kuroshio recirculation to nutrient transport along the Kuroshio south of Japan: an analysis of model results
Xinyu Guo, Yingying Hu, Yoshikazu Sasai
Chapter 8: The Kuroshio-induced nutrient supply in the shelf and slope region off the southern coast of Japan
Hiroshi Kuroda
Chapter 9: Progress of studies on Kuroshio path variations south of Japan in the past decade
Norihisa Usui
Chapter 10: Island Mass Effect
Daisuke Hasegawa
Chapter 11: Impact of ocean physics on marine ecosystems in the Kuroshio and Kuroshio Extension regions: A high-resolution coupled physical-biological model study
Yoshikazu Sasai, Makio C. Honda, Eko Siswanto, Sami Kato, Kazuyuki Uehara, Hideharu Sasaki, Masami Nonaka
Section III: Ecosystem Dynamics
Chapter 12: Phytoplankton distribution in the Kuroshio region of the southern East China Sea in early spring
Toru Hasegawa, Satoshi Kitajima, Yoko Kiyomoto
Chapter 13: Spatial variations in community structure of haptophytes across the Kuroshio front in the Tokara Strait
Hisashi Endoh, Koji Suzuki
Chapter 14: Variability in taxonomic composition, standing stock, and productivity of the plankton community in the Kuroshio and its neighboring waters
Toru Kobari, Yurie Kobari, Hiroomi Miyamoto, Yuji Okazaki, Gen Kume, Reo Kondo, Akimasa Habano
Chapter 15: Diverse Trophic Pathways from Zooplankton to Larval and Juvenile Fishes in the Kuroshio Ecosystem
Yuji Okazaki, Hiroomi Miyamoto, Koji Suzuki, Hiroaki Saito, Kiyotaka Hidaka, Tadafumi Ichikawa
Chapter 16: Feeding Ecology of Chaetognath Flaccisagitta enflata in the Kuroshio Region, Western North Pacific
Hiroomi Miyamoto, Dharmamony Vijai, Yuji Okazaki, Hiroaki Saito
Chapter 17: Reproduction and early life history of mesopelagic fishes in the Kuroshio region: a review of recent advances
Chiyuki Sassa
Chapter 18: Variability in growth rates of Japanese jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus larvae and juveniles in the East China Sea – effects of temperature and prey abundance
Motomitsu Takahashi, Chiyuki Sassa, Kou Nishiuchi, Youichi Tsukamoto
