Benthos Ecology laboratory has an objective to understand the complexities of aquatic animal life and to apply them to human systems through the study of their ecology and other relevant environmental factors using various methods from multiple approaches.

1) Application of freshwater organisms as environmental indicators and for ecological restoration (Kawai, K.)

2) Predatory organisms of tidal flat clams and population ecology of lancelets (Saito, H.)

Benthos, Freshwater fish, Ecology, Environmental restoration

Head of a char, Salvelinus leucomaenis imbrius

A clam, Ruditapes philippinarum

Kawai, K., Sugimaru, K., Saito S., Imabayashi, H.（2011）Chironomidae collected at the seashore and estuarine in Japan. Med. Entomol. Zool., 62: 249-271.

Osman, I.H., Gabr, H.R., Saito, H., El-Etreby, S.H. (2010) Reproductive biology of the highly commercial polychaetes in the Suez Canal. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. UK., 90: 281-290.

Saito, H., Mimura, K., Kawai, K., Imabayashi, K. (2009) Temporal and spatial dynamics of a lower-intertidal lancelet population in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Zool. Sci., 26: 550-556．

Kawai, K., Imabayashi, H. (2009) Cricotopus bifascia Tokunaga, 1936: transfer to the genus Paratrichocladius and redescription of the male. Med. Entomol. Zool., 60: 81-85.

Kawai, K., Imabayashi, H. (2008) A new species of genus Stictochironomus (Diptera: Chironomidae), collected in the Oze river basin, Hiroshima, Japan. Limnology. 9: 101-103.

Kawai, K., Imayoshi, Y., Imabayashi, H. (2007) Differences in allele frequency at ME-1 locus among four subspecies of Japanese white-spotted char salvelinus leucomaenis. Fish. Sci., 73: 1398-1400.

Professor　Kawai, K.
Associate Professor　Saito, H.

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