Plankton & Benthos Research

Executive Editor

Motohiro Shimanaga

Kumamoto University, Japan

The editorial board of The Plankton Society of Japan

Editor-in-Chief

Toshiya Katano

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan

Vice Editor-in-Chief

	Dhugal J. Lindsay	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
	Shinji Shimode	Yokohama National University, Japan
	Akira Ishikawa	Mie University, Japan

Editors

	Koichi Ara Nihon University, Japan	Satoshi Nagai Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan

	Syuhei Ban University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan	Yuichiro Nishibe The University of Tokyo, Japan

	Tetsuichi Fujiki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan	Jun Nishikawa Tokai University, Japan

	Junya Hirai The University of Tokyo, Japan	Tetsuya Nishikawa Hyogo Prefectural Technology Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan

	Takahito Ikenoue Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan	Goh Nishitani Tohoku University, Japan

	Mitsunori Iwataki The University of Tokyo, Japan	Kazutaka Takahashi The University of Tokyo, Japan

	Mariko Kawamura Kyoto University, Japan	Sho Toshino Kuroshio Biological Research Foundation, Japan

	Toru Kobari Kagoshima University, Japan	Akihiro Tuji National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan

	Kazuhiko Koike Hiroshima University, Japan	Haruo Yamaguchi Kochi University, Japan

	Hiroomi Miyamoto Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan

Advisory Board

	Po Teen Lim	University of Malaya, Malaysia
	Sherwood Lan Smith	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
	Seung Won Jung	South Sea Institute, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology

The editorial board of The Japanese Association of Benthology

Editor-in-Chief

Motohiro Shimanaga

Kumamoto University, Japan

Editors

	Hirokazu Abe Ishinomaki Senshu University, Japan	Naoko Isomura National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College, Japan

	Akira Umehara Hiroshima University, Japan	Tsunenori Koga Wakayama University, Japan

	Ryutaro Goto Kyoto University, Japan	Koji Seike National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

	Fumio Takeshita Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History & Human History, Japan	Masatoshi Matsumasa Iwate Medical University, Japan

	Kensuke Yanagi Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Japan	Hiroki Kise National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

	Kenji Yoshino National Institute for Minamata Disease, Japan	Katsumasa Yamada Kumamoto University, Japan

	Tomohiro Komorita Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Japan	Yoshitake Takada Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan

	Takuya Yahagi The University of Tokyo, Japan

Plankton and Benthos Research is the joint journal of the Plankton Society of Japan (https://www.plankton.jp/) and the Japanese Association of Benthology (http://www.ecosystem.aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/benthos/benthos_gakkai/). The journal publishes quarterly original papers, reviews and notes dealing with any aspect of the biology and ecology of plankton and benthic organisms and their interactions with the environment in any aquatic system, and is open to all scientists around the world. For information regarding manuscript preparation, see this page.