Impacts of the 2011 Tsunami on Sediment Characteristics and Macrozoobenthic Assemblages in a Shallow Eutrophic Lagoon, Sendai Bay, Japan

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 8; p. e0135125
• Main Authors: Kanaya, Gen, Suzuki, Takao, Kikuchi, Eisuke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 04.08.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Amphipoda; Animals; Bays; Benthic communities; Biodiversity; Biogeochemistry; Biota; Bivalvia; Carbon; Chemical properties; Coastal ecology; Coasts; Communities; Disturbance; Earthquakes; Ecological effects; Ecosystem; Ecosystems; Environmental quality; Estuaries; Estuarine environments; Eutrophic environments; Eutrophication; Floods; Geologic Sediments - chemistry; Grain size; Habitat improvement; Injuries; Japan; Lagoons; Larvae; Life history; Mollusks; Nitrogen; Nuttallia; Oxidation-Reduction; Physical stress; Polychaeta; Population Density; Pseudopolydora; Recolonization; Recovery; Recovery of function; Seawater; Sedimentation & deposition; Sediments; Sediments (Geology); Species diversity; Species richness; Sulfide; Sulfides; Sulfides - analysis; Taxa; Tsunamis; Japan; INW, Japan, Honshu, Miyagi Prefect., Sendai Bay; INW, Japan

A huge tsunami is one of the greatest disturbance events in coastal benthic communities, although the ecological consequences are not fully understood. Here we examined the tsunami-induced changes in the sediment environment and macrozoobenthic assemblage in a eutrophic brackish lagoon in eastern Ja...