Data on species list and the amount of macrophytes and mobile epi-benthic invertebrates in a subtropical seagrass-seaweed mixed bed in Ishigaki Island, Japan
Kenta Nakamoto,
Jun Hayakawa,
Tomohiko Kawamura,
Masafumi Kodama,
Hideaki Yamada,
Takashi Kitagawa,
Yoshiro Watanabe
Affiliations
Kenta Nakamoto
International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2-106-1, Akahama, Otsuchi, Iwate 028-1102, Japan; Corresponding author.
Jun Hayakawa
International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2-106-1, Akahama, Otsuchi, Iwate 028-1102, Japan
Tomohiko Kawamura
International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2-106-1, Akahama, Otsuchi, Iwate 028-1102, Japan
Masafumi Kodama
International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2-106-1, Akahama, Otsuchi, Iwate 028-1102, Japan
Hideaki Yamada
Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, 1551-8, Taira-machi, Nagasaki, Nagasaki 851-2213, Japan
Takashi Kitagawa
International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2-106-1, Akahama, Otsuchi, Iwate 028-1102, Japan
Yoshiro Watanabe
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8564, Japan
In April 2014 and 2015, field samplings were conducted in a subtropical seagrass-seaweed mixed bed in Ishigaki Island, southwest Japan in order to collect macrophytes and mobile epi-benthic invertebrates. This article describes macrophyte biomass of 16 species or groups and invertebrate abundance of 66 species or groups. This data is associated with “Phylogenetically diverse macrophyte community promotes species diversity of mobile epi-benthic invertebrates” (Nakamoto et al., 2018) [1] Keywords: Seagrass, Seaweed, Mobile epi-benthic invertebrate, Seagrass-seaweed mixed bed
