Session outline
 
Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences(A)
Session Sub Category Complex & General(CG)
Session ID A-CG15
Title Coastal Ecosystems - 2. Coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and mangroves
Short title Coral reefs, seagrass meadows, mangroves
Convener Name Toshihiro Miyajima
Affiliation Marine Biogeochemistry Group, Division of Ocean-Earth System Science, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
Co-convener 1. Name Atsushi Watanabe
Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Environmental Informatics Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology
Co-convener 2. Name Yu Umezawa
Affiliation Nagasaki University
International Symposium No request
Language Japanese
Scope Coastal marine ecosystems are complex open system interacting with surrounding watersheds, outer ocean, and the atmosphere. They provide a wealth of various ecosystem services to human life, however, at the same time, are also influenced strongly and often negatively by human activities. This session, together with a companion session dedicated for the water cycle and land-ocean interactions [A-XX##], aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussion covering various aspects of frontiers in coastal ecosystem sciences. This session particularly focuses shallow-water benthic communities such as coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and mangroves. All these communities are characterized by originally high primary production, active material cycling, and biodiversity hot spots. However, increasing human demand for coastal marine resources and industrial development concentrating on coastal regions incur the risk of rapid degradation and diminishment. Comprehensive assessment and monitoring of ecosystem functions and development of effective means for conservation and restoration are urgently needed for such communities. This session is dedicated to organizing and promoting such research and management activities by sharing state-of-the-art science and technology among ecologists, geologists, geochemists, biogeographers, etc. Case and modeling studies concerning the following topics are especially welcome: material cycling and ecosystem functions; climate changes such as global warming, ocean acidification, and sea-level rise; ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, nutrient regulation, and fisheries production; broad-scale comparison; long-term ecological researches.
Type of presentation Oral and Poster presentation
Invited papers Rempei Suwa (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)
Tomihiko Higuchi (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)
Yoshiyuki Tanaka (JAMSTEC)