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Toshi Nagata

Toshi Nagata

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
43
Citations
7827
World Ranking
7054
National Ranking
135

Overview

Toshi Nagata is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Pollution.

Their research addresses multiple topics within these domains, including:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Notable recent publications by Nagata include:

  • "Transparent Exopolymer Particles in Deep Oceans: Synthesis and Future Challenges," 2021, published in Gels
  • "Tracking long-distance migration of marine fishes using compound-specific stable isotope analysis of amino acids," 2020, published in Ecology Letters
  • "Efficient radiocarbon measurements on marine and terrestrial samples with single stage Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo," 2022, published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
  • "Influences of Ocean Currents on the Diets of Demersal Fish Communities in the Western North Pacific Revealed by Their Muscle Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Compositions," 2021, published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Seasonal Cycle of the Confluence of the Tsugaru Warm, Oyashio, and Kuroshio Currents East of Japan," 2022, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Frequent publication venues for Nagata's research are:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Ecology Letters

Collaborations have been made with several co-authors including:

  • Hideki Fukuda
  • Yosuke Yamada
  • Nanako O. Ogawa
  • Naohiko Ohkouchi
  • Yūsuke Yokoyama

Toshi Nagata's work frequently involves interdisciplinary approaches to environmental and marine sciences, applying isotope analysis and microbiological techniques to study ecological and oceanographic processes. Their research contributes to understanding the complexity of marine ecosystems, the cycling of elements within these systems, and the influence of physical oceanographic phenomena on marine life.

Best Publications

  • Direct Determination of Carbon and Nitrogen Contents of Natural Bacterial Assemblages in Marine Environments

    Rumi Fukuda;Hiroshi Ogawa;Toshi Nagata;Isao Koike

  • Production mechanisms of dissolved organic matter

    T. Nagata

  • Advances in the application of amino acid nitrogen isotopic analysis in ecological and biogeochemical studies

    Naohiko Ohkouchi;Yoshito Chikaraishi;Yoshito Chikaraishi;Hilary G. Close;Brian Fry

  • Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical indicators of meso- and bathypelagic biological activity: What the @#! is wrong with present calculations of carbon budgets?

    Adrian B. Burd;Dennis A. Hansell;Deborah K. Steinberg;Thomas R. Anderson

  • Bacterioplankton distribution and production in deep Pacific waters: Large-scale geographic variations and possible coupling with sinking particle fluxes

    Toshi Nagata;Hideki Fukuda;Rumi Fukuda;Isao Koike

  • Carbon and nitrogen content of natural planktonic bacteria.

    Toshi Nagata

  • Sources of nitrate and ammonium contamination in groundwater under developing Asian megacities

    Yu Umezawa;Takahiro Hosono;Shin ichi Onodera;Fernando Siringan

  • Release of macromolecular organic complexes by heterotrophic marine flagellates

    T. Nagata;DL Kirchman

  • Emerging concepts on microbial processes in the bathypelagic ocean-ecology, biogeochemistry, and genomics

    Toshi Nagata;Christian Tamburini;Javier Arístegui;Federico Baltar

  • The microflagellate-picoplankton food linkage in the water column of Lake Biwa

    Toshi Nagata

  • Organic Matter–Bacteria Interactions in Seawater

    Toshi Nagata

  • Heat accumulation on coral reefs mitigated by internal waves

    Alex S. J. Wyatt;Alex S. J. Wyatt;James J. Leichter;Lauren T. Toth;Toshihiro Miyajima

  • Autotrophic picoplankton in southern Lake Baikal: abundance, growth and grazing mortality during summer

    Toshi Nagata;Kenji Takai;Kyoko Kawanobe;Dong-Sup Kim

  • Microbial degradation of peptidoglycan in seawater

    T. Nagata;B. Meon;D. L. Kirchman

  • Multiple isotope (H, O, N, S and Sr) approach elucidates complex pollution causes in the shallow groundwaters of the Taipei urban area

    Takahiro Hosono;Chung Ho Wang;Yu Umezawa;Takanori Nakano

  • Release of dissolved free and combined amino acids by bacterivorous marine flagellates

    Toshi Nagata;David L. Kirchman

  • Diazotroph community structure and the role of nitrogen fixation in the nitrogen cycle in the Chukchi Sea (western Arctic Ocean)

    Takuhei Shiozaki;Amane Fujiwara;Minoru Ijichi;Naomi Harada

  • Viral control of bacterial growth efficiency in marine pelagic environments

    Chiaki Motegi;Toshi Nagata;Toshi Nagata;Takeshi Miki;Markus G. Weinbauer;Markus G. Weinbauer

  • Degradation by bacteria of membrane and soluble protein in seawater

    Toshi Nagata;Rumi Fukuda;Isao Koike;Kazuhiro Kogure

  • Evidence of Global Chlorophyll d

    Y. Kashiyama;H. Miyashita;S. Ohkubo;N. O. Ogawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Ichiro Tayasu
Ichiro Tayasu Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Naohiko Ohkouchi
Naohiko Ohkouchi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yoshito Chikaraishi
Yoshito Chikaraishi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
David L. Kirchman
David L. Kirchman University of Delaware
Nobuhito Ohte
Nobuhito Ohte Kyoto University
Shigeto Nishino
Shigeto Nishino Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Isao Koike
Isao Koike University of Tokyo
Ken Furuya
Ken Furuya Soka University
Makoto Taniguchi
Makoto Taniguchi Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

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