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FUKUSHIMA, MichioPh.D., Chief Senior ResearcherEcosystem Function Research Section Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan |
Research Overview
I have been studying freshwater fish and their ecological traits in an attempt to assess the health of watershed environments by using the traits as an indicator. I also study freshwater fish in order to alert people based on scientific evidence to adverse influences of human activities on the watershed environments in the early stages. The study I am currently involved in aims to elucidate fish migrations in the Mekong River basin which is twice as large as the land of Japan and supports foods and livelihoods of people living in the basin. The possible outputs of this study would be to predict potential impacts of habitat fragmentation on the freshwater fishes, to recommend practical measures to riparian countries to mitigate or minimize those impacts and to contribute to the sustainable development of this river basin.
Specialties/ Key words
Fish ecology/ freshwater fish, watershed environment, human activities, dam, Mekong
Publications since 2017 (peer reviewed)
Fukushima M, Rand P S. (2023) Individual variation in spawning migration timing in a salmonid fish-Exploring roles of environmental and social cues. Ecology and Evolution DOI:10.1002/ece3.10101. 
updated May. 31, 2023
Saowakoon S., Saowakoon K., Jutagate A., Hiroki M., Fukushima M., Jutagate T. (2021) Growth and feeding behavior of fishes in organic rice-fish systems with various species combinations. Aquaculture Reports, 20, 100663
Fukushima M., Rand P.S. (2021) High rates of consecutive spawning and precise homing in Sakhalin taimen (Parahucho perryi). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 104, 41-52
Hiroki M., Tomioka N., Murata T., Imai A., Jutagate T., Preecha C., Avakul P., Phomikong P., Fukushima M. (2020) Primary production estimated for large lakes and reservoirs in the Mekong River Basin. Science of the Total Environment, 747, 141133
Fukushima M., Harada C., Yamakawa A., Iizuka T. (2019) Anadromy sustained in the artificially land-locked population of Sakhalin taimen in northern Japan. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 102, 1219-1230
Phomikong P., Udduang S., Fukushima M., Srichareondham B., Rattanachamnong D., Jutagate T. (2018) Larval fish assemblage patterns in three tributaries of Mekong River in Thailand. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 65, 1-15
Mizumoto H., Urabe H., Kanbe T., Fukushima M., Araki H. (2017) Establishing an environmental DNA method to detect and estimate the biomass of Sakhalin taimen, a critically endangered Asian salmonid. Limnology, 19, 219-227
Fukushima M., Tomioka N., Jutagate T., Hiroki M., Murata M., Preecha C., Avakul P., Phomikong P., Imai A. (2017) The dynamics of pico-sized and bloom-forming cyanobacteria in large water bodies in the Mekong River Basin. PLoS ONE, 12, e0189609
Last updated Jun. 27, 2023