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Ecological and genetic impact of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami on intertidal mud snails.
Scientific reports - 10 Mar 2017
Miura Osamu, Kanaya Gen, Nakai Shizuko, Itoh Hajime, Chiba Satoshi, Makino Wataru, Nishimura Tomohiro, Kojima Shigeaki, Urabe Jotaro
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Natural disturbances often destroy local populations and can considerably affect the genetic properties of these populations. The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami greatly damaged local populations of various coastal organisms, including the mud snail Batillaria attramentaria, which was an abundant macroinvertebrate on the tidal flats in the Tohoku region. To evaluate the impact of the tsunami on the ecology and...
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