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Coastal ecological impacts from pumice rafts
An explosive volcanic eruption occurred in the Ogasawara Islands on 13–15 August 2021, bringing unprecedented amounts of floating pumice to the coast of Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago, 1300 km west of the volcano, approximately 2 months later. The coast of Okinawa Island, especially along...
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author | Ohno, Yoshikazu Iguchi, Akira Ijima, Mariko Yasumoto, Ko Suzuki, Atsushi |
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description | An explosive volcanic eruption occurred in the Ogasawara Islands on 13–15 August 2021, bringing unprecedented amounts of floating pumice to the coast of Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago, 1300 km west of the volcano, approximately 2 months later. The coast of Okinawa Island, especially along the northern part, is home to many typical subtropical seascapes, including coral reefs and mangrove forests, so the possible impact of the large amount of pumice is attracting attention. Here, we report early evidence of ecosystem changes as a result of large-scale pumice stranding on coastal beaches, in estuaries and mangrove forests and passage across fringing coral reefs. Massive pumice drifts are major obstacles to fishing activities and ship traffic, but short and long-term changes in coastal ecosystems can also occur. The phenomena observed on Okinawa Island can be a preview of coastal impacts for the Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu Islands, where pumice has subsequently washed ashore. |
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spelling | pubmed-92966522022-07-21 Coastal ecological impacts from pumice rafts Ohno, Yoshikazu Iguchi, Akira Ijima, Mariko Yasumoto, Ko Suzuki, Atsushi Sci Rep Article An explosive volcanic eruption occurred in the Ogasawara Islands on 13–15 August 2021, bringing unprecedented amounts of floating pumice to the coast of Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago, 1300 km west of the volcano, approximately 2 months later. The coast of Okinawa Island, especially along the northern part, is home to many typical subtropical seascapes, including coral reefs and mangrove forests, so the possible impact of the large amount of pumice is attracting attention. Here, we report early evidence of ecosystem changes as a result of large-scale pumice stranding on coastal beaches, in estuaries and mangrove forests and passage across fringing coral reefs. Massive pumice drifts are major obstacles to fishing activities and ship traffic, but short and long-term changes in coastal ecosystems can also occur. The phenomena observed on Okinawa Island can be a preview of coastal impacts for the Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu Islands, where pumice has subsequently washed ashore. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9296652/ /pubmed/35853947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14614-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Ohno, Yoshikazu Iguchi, Akira Ijima, Mariko Yasumoto, Ko Suzuki, Atsushi Coastal ecological impacts from pumice rafts |
title | Coastal ecological impacts from pumice rafts |
title_full | Coastal ecological impacts from pumice rafts |
title_fullStr | Coastal ecological impacts from pumice rafts |
title_full_unstemmed | Coastal ecological impacts from pumice rafts |
title_short | Coastal ecological impacts from pumice rafts |
title_sort | coastal ecological impacts from pumice rafts |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9296652/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35853947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14614-y |
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