Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum

Monograph of the Mizunami Fossil Museum No. 9

Research of Mangrove Swamp Environments in Southeast Asia and SW Pacific from 1980 to 2000 (NINAYA Survey)

Karyu Tsuda, Junji Itoigawa, and Thoru Yamanoi

Published: 2003/3/18   Page: 322, pls. 124

An outline of the research of mangrove swamp envionmentsin Southeast Asia and SW Pacific (NINAYA Survey) is described. The survey was carried out in 15 districts of 10 countries from 1980 to 2000 by six staffs. The research extends to many items and areas but lays emphasis on mollusks and mangrove pollen in island type mangrove exisisted in Singapore and Cebu of Philippines etc.

Physical and biological conditions in each surveyed locality are shortly described.