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Hiroshi Kitazato is affiliated with Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant specialization in Oceanography and Ecology. Kitazato's work spans several interconnected subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research topics include Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Fisheries Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research efforts are:

  • Alan J. Jamieson
  • Todd Bond
  • Paige J. Maroni
  • Maria Holzmann
  • Paulo Yukio Gomes Sumida

Kitazato has published extensively in several scientific venues. Their top publication outlets include:

  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Kitazato include:

  • "The Biodiversity and Distribution of Abyssal Benthic Foraminifera and Their Possible Ecological Roles: A Synthesis Across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone" (2021), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Bacterial diversity in deep-sea sediments under influence of asphalt seep at the São Paulo Plateau" (2020), published in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • "Deep-Sea Habitats and Megafauna on the Slopes of the São Paulo Ridge, SW Atlantic" (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "New maximum depth record for bony fish: Teleostei, Scorpaeniformes, Liparidae (8336 m, Izu-Ogasawara Trench)" (2023), published in Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • "Maximum depth extensions for Hydrozoa, Tunicata and Ctenophora" (2023), published in Marine Biology

Best Publications

  • Determination of aquatic food-web structure based on compound-specific nitrogen isotopic composition of amino acids

    Yoshito Chikaraishi;Nanako O. Ogawa;Yuichiro Kashiyama;Yoshinori Takano

  • Paleoenvironmental Changes in the Japan Sea During the Last 85,000 Years

    T. Oba;M. Kato;H. Kitazato;I. Koizumi

  • Foraminifera promote calcification by elevating their intracellular pH

    Lennart Jan de Nooijer;Takashi Toyofuku;Hiroshi Kitazato

  • Metabolic control of nitrogen isotope composition of amino acids in macroalgae and gastropods: implications for aquatic food web studies

    Yoshito Chikaraishi;Yuichiro Kashiyama;Nanako O. Ogawa;Hiroshi Kitazato

  • High rates of microbial carbon turnover in sediments in the deepest oceanic trench on Earth

    Ronnie N. Glud;Ronnie N. Glud;Frank Wenzhöfer;Frank Wenzhöfer;Mathias Middelboe;Kazumasa Oguri

  • Contemporaneous massive subaerial volcanism and late cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

    Junichiro Kuroda;Nanako O. Ogawa;Masaharu Tanimizu;Millard F. Coffin

  • Global carbon cycling on a heterogeneous seafloor

    Paul V.R. Snelgrove;Karline Soetaert;Martin Solan;Simon Thrush

  • Postglacial environmental change of the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of central Japan

    Kiyotaka Chinzei;Kantaro Fujioka;Hiroshi Kitazato;Itaru Koizumi

  • Marine Biodiversity in Japanese Waters

    Katsunori Fujikura;Dhugal Lindsay;Hiroshi Kitazato;Shuhei Nishida

  • Seasonal changes in bathyal foraminiferal populations in response to the flux of organic matter (Sagami Bay, Japan)

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  • Proton pumping accompanies calcification in foraminifera.

    Takashi Toyofuku;Miki Y. Matsuo;Lennart Jan de Nooijer;Yukiko Nagai

  • Hadal disturbance in the Japan Trench induced by the 2011 Tohoku–Oki Earthquake

    Kazumasa Oguri;Kiichiro Kawamura;Arito Sakaguchi;Takashi Toyofuku

  • Seasonal phytodetritus deposition and responses of bathyal benthic foraminiferal populations in Sagami Bay, Japan: preliminary results from “Project Sagami 1996–1999”

    H. Kitazato;Y. Shirayama;T. Nakatsuka;S. Fujiwara

  • Species-specific ingestion of organic carbon by deep-sea benthic foraminifera and meiobenthos: In situ tracer experiments

    Hidetaka Nomaki;Petra Heinz;Takeshi Nakatsuka;Motohiro Shimanaga

  • Different ingestion patterns of 13C-labeled bacteria and algae by deep-sea benthic foraminifera

    Hidetaka Nomaki;Petra Heinz;Takeshi Nakatsuka;Motohiro Shimanaga

  • Evaluation of Mg/Ca thermometry in foraminifera: Comparison of experimental results and measurements in nature

    Takashi Toyofuku;Hiroshi Kitazato;Hodaka Kawahata;Masashi Tsuchiya

  • Foraminiferal microhabitats in four marine environments around Japan

    Hiroshi Kitazato

  • Sedimentary membrane lipids recycled by deep-sea benthic archaea

    Yoshinori Takano;Yoshito Chikaraishi;Nanako O. Ogawa;Hidetaka Nomaki

  • Nitrogen cycling in a deep ocean margin sediment (Sagami Bay, Japan)

    Ronnie N. Glud;Bo Thamdrup;Henrik Stahl;Frank Wenzhoefer

  • Benthic carbon mineralization in hadal trenches: Assessment by in situ O2 microprofile measurements

    Frank Wenzhöfer;Kazumasa Oguri;Mathias Middelboe;Robert Turnewitsch

  • Genetic Diversity of Microbial Eukaryotes in Anoxic Sediment of the Saline Meromictic Lake Namako-ike (Japan): On the Detection of Anaerobic or Anoxic-tolerant Lineages of Eukaryotes.

    Kiyotaka Takishita;Masashi Tsuchiya;Masaru Kawato;Kazumasa Oguri

  • RESPONSE OF DEEP-SEA BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA TO SIMULATED PHYTOPLANKTON PULSES UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS

    Petra Heinz;Hiroshi Kitazato;Gerhard Schmiedl;Christoph Hemleben

Frequent Co-Authors

Naohiko Ohkouchi
Naohiko Ohkouchi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yoshito Chikaraishi
Yoshito Chikaraishi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Nanako O. Ogawa
Nanako O. Ogawa Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Ronnie N. Glud
Ronnie N. Glud University of Southern Denmark
Andrew J. Gooday
Andrew J. Gooday National Oceanography Centre
Takeshi Nakatsuka
Takeshi Nakatsuka Nagoya University
Frank Wenzhöfer
Frank Wenzhöfer Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Christophe Fontanier
Christophe Fontanier University of Angers
Kantaro Fujioka
Kantaro Fujioka Kanagawa University
Christoph Hemleben
Christoph Hemleben University of Tübingen

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