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Kazuhiko Sakai is affiliated with the University of the Ryukyus in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a specialization in ecology, oceanography, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within coral and marine ecosystems, marine and coastal plant biology, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine and fisheries research, crustacean biology and ecology, marine sponges and natural products, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Recent publications by Kazuhiko Sakai include the following:

  • An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database, 2021, Scientific Data
  • A coral spawning calendar for Sesoko Station, Okinawa, Japan, 2021, Galaxea Journal of Coral Reef Studies
  • Responses of branching reef corals Acropora digitifera and Montipora digitata to elevated temperature and pCO₂, 2020, PeerJ
  • Effects of Ocean Acidification on Coral Endolithic Bacterial Communities in Isopora palifera and Porites lobata, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Phosphate bound to calcareous sediments hampers skeletal development of juvenile coral, 2021, Royal Society Open Science

Kazuhiko Sakai frequently publishes in the following journals:

  • Galaxea Journal of Coral Reef Studies
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • PeerJ
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Coral Reefs

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Akira Iguchi, Atsushi Suzuki, Saki Harii, Frédéric Sinniger, and Gal Eyal.

Best Publications

  • Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers

    Y. Loya;K. Sakai;K. Yamazato;Y. Nakano

  • Revisiting the winners and the losers a decade after coral bleaching

    R. van Woesik;K. Sakai;A. Ganase;Y. Loya

  • Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates inferred from partial chloroplast large subunit (23S)-rDNA sequences.

    Scott R Santos;Derek J Taylor;Robert A Kinzie;Michio Hidaka

  • Coral larvae under ocean acidification: survival, metabolism, and metamorphosis.

    Masako Nakamura;Shun Ohki;Atsushi Suzuki;Kazuhiko Sakai

  • Larval settlement rates and gene flow of broadcast-spawning (Acropora tenuis) and planula-brooding (Stylophora pistillata) corals

    Akira Nishikawa;Masaya Katoh;Kazuhiko Sakai

  • Composition of lipids, fatty acids and sterols in Okinawan corals

    Hideyuki Yamashiro;Hirosuke Oku;Hideki Higa;Isao Chinen

  • Ocean acidification reduces sperm flagellar motility in broadcast spawning reef invertebrates.

    Masaya Morita;Ryota Suwa;Akira Iguchi;Masako Nakamura

  • Interspecific comparison of the symbiotic relationship in corals with high and low rates of bleaching-induced mortality

    J. Stimson;K. Sakai;H. Sembali

  • Effects of acidified seawater on early life stages of scleractinian corals (Genus Acropora)

    Ryota Suwa;Ryota Suwa;Masako Nakamura;Masaya Morita;Kazuaki Shimada

  • Morphological plasticity in the coral Porites sillimaniani and its adaptive significance

    S. Muko;K. Kawasaki;K. Sakai;F. Takasu

  • Effects of ocean acidification on calcification of symbiont-bearing reef foraminifers

    K. Fujita;M. Hikami;M. Hikami;A. Suzuki;A. Kuroyanagi

  • Seasonal changes in the content and composition of lipids in the coral Goniastrea aspera

    H. Oku;H. Yamashiro;K. Onaga;K. Sakai

  • Eggs regulate sperm flagellar motility initiation, chemotaxis and inhibition in the coral Acropora digitifera, A. gemmifera and A. tenuis.

    Masaya Morita;Akira Nishikawa;Ayako Nakajima;Akira Iguchi

  • Gene flow and genetic diversity of a broadcast-spawning coral in northern peripheral populations.

    Yuichi Nakajima;Akira Nishikawa;Akira Iguchi;Kazuhiko Sakai

  • Effect of Colony Size, Polyp Size, and Budding Mode on Egg Production in a Colonial Coral.

    Kazuhiko Sakai

  • Bidirectional sex change in mushroom stony corals

    Yossi Loya;Kazuhiko Sakai

  • Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical increase

    NN Price;S Muko;L Legendre;R Steneck

  • Pacific-wide contrast highlights resistance of reef calcifiers to ocean acidification

    S. Comeau;R. C. Carpenter;Y Nojiri;H. M. Putnam

  • An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database.

    Andrew H. Baird;James R. Guest;Alasdair J. Edwards;Andrew G. Bauman

  • Settlement-competency period of planulae and genetic differentiation of the scleractinian coral Acropora digitifera.

    Akira Nishikawa;Kazuhiko Sakai

  • Effects of seawater pH on growth and skeletal U/Ca ratios of Acropora digitifera coral polyps

    Mayuri Inoue;Ryota Suwa;Atsushi Suzuki;Kazuhiko Sakai

  • Morphological plasticity in the coral Porites sillimaniani and its adaptive significance. Bull Mar Sci

    Soyoka Muko;Kohkichi Kawasaki;Kazuhiko Sakai;Fugo Takasu

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsushi Suzuki
Atsushi Suzuki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hodaka Kawahata
Hodaka Kawahata University of Tokyo
Yukihiro Nojiri
Yukihiro Nojiri National Institute for Environmental Studies
Yossi Loya
Yossi Loya Tel Aviv University
Peter J. Edmunds
Peter J. Edmunds California State University, Northridge
R. van Woesik
R. van Woesik Florida Institute of Technology
Chuya Shinzato
Chuya Shinzato University of Tokyo
Robert C. Carpenter
Robert C. Carpenter California State University, Northridge
Mary Alice Coffroth
Mary Alice Coffroth University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Nikolaus Gussone
Nikolaus Gussone University of Münster

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