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Yasuhiro Yamanaka

Yasuhiro Yamanaka

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
13578
World Ranking
6594
National Ranking
123

Overview

Yasuhiro Yamanaka is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan, with a research focus primarily in the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including oceanography, sociology and political science, food science, social psychology, and business and international management. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in the main topics they have explored, such as marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, diverse aspects of tourism research, digital marketing and social media, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, recreation, leisure, wilderness management, and food waste reduction and sustainability.

Their publication record includes papers in a variety of academic venues, covering topics at the intersection of environmental science, social research, and sustainability. Recent papers by Yasuhiro Yamanaka include:

  • Photoacclimation by phytoplankton determines the distribution of global subsurface chlorophyll maxima in the ocean, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Arrival briefings as an effective interpretation strategy in tourist destinations: The case of Daisetsuzan National Park, Japan, 2021, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
  • How might the spread of online meal-delivery services impact achievement of the SDGs?, 2024, Discover Sustainability
  • Inhibition of competitive exclusion due to phytoplankton dispersion: a contribution for solving Hutchinson's paradox, 2020, Ecological Modelling
  • Acclimation by diverse phytoplankton species determines oceanic carbon to nitrogen ratios, 2023, Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Yasuhiro Yamanaka often collaborates with a recurring group of co-authors, indicating established research partnerships. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Yoshio Masuda
  • Takafumi Hirata
  • Hideyuki Nakano
  • S. Lan Smith
  • Akira Oka

Their publications have appeared primarily in academic journals such as Communications Earth & Environment, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, Discover Sustainability, Ecological Modelling, and Limnology and Oceanography Letters. This range of venues underscores engagement with both environmental science and social science audiences.

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms

    James C. Orr;Victoria J. Fabry;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • A comparison of global estimates of marine primary production from ocean color

    Mary-Elena Carr;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie Schmeltz;Maki Noguchi Aita

  • NEMURO—a lower trophic level model for the North Pacific marine ecosystem

    Michio J. Kishi;Michio J. Kishi;Makoto Kashiwai;Daniel M. Ware;Bernard A. Megrey

  • Synoptic relationships between surface Chlorophyll- a and diagnostic pigments specific to phytoplankton functional types

    T. Hirata;N. J. Hardman-Mountford;R. J. W. Brewin;R. J. W. Brewin;J. Aiken

  • Projected impacts of climate change on marine fish and fisheries

    Anne B. Hollowed;Manuel Barange;Richard J. Beamish;Keith Brander

  • Evaluating Global Ocean Carbon Models: The Importance of Realistic Physics

    Scott C. Doney;Keith Lindsay;K. Caldeira;J.-M. Campin;J.-M. Campin

  • Impact of circulation on export production, dissolved organic matter, and dissolved oxygen in the ocean: Results from Phase II of the Ocean Carbon-cycle Model Intercomparison Project (OCMIP-2)

    Raymond G. Najjar;X. Jin;F. Louanchi;Olivier Aumont

  • Evaluation of ocean carbon cycle models with data-based metrics

    K. Matsumoto;Jorge L. Sarmiento;Robert M. Key;Olivier Aumont

  • Evaluation of ocean model ventilation with CFC-11: comparison of 13 global ocean models

    Jean-Claude Dutay;John L. Bullister;Scott C. Doney;James C. Orr

  • The role of the vertical fluxes of particulate organic matter and calcite in the oceanic carbon cycle: Studies using an ocean biogeochemical general circulation model

    Yasuhiro Yamanaka;Eiichi Tajika

  • Role of nitrification and denitrification on the nitrous oxide cycle in the eastern tropical North Pacific and Gulf of California

    Hiroaki Yamagishi;Marian B. Westley;Marian B. Westley;Brian N. Popp;Sakae Toyoda

  • Ocean currents and herbivory drive macroalgae-to-coral community shift under climate warming

    Naoki H. Kumagai;Jorge García Molinos;Hiroya Yamano;Shintaro Takao

  • An ecological-physical coupled model applied to Station Papa

    Michio Kawamiya;Michio J. Kishi;Yasuhiro Yamanaka;Nobuo Suginohara

  • Optimal uptake kinetics: physiological acclimation explains the pattern of nitrate uptake by phytoplankton in the ocean

    S. L. Smith;Y. Yamanaka;Markus Pahlow;Andreas Oschlies

  • Climate forcing and the Kuroshio/Oyashio ecosystem

    Akihiko Yatsu;Sanae Chiba;Yasuhiro Yamanaka;Shin-ichi Ito

  • The role of ocean transport in the uptake of anthropogenic CO2

    L. Cao;M. Eby;A. Ridgwell;K. Caldeira

  • Role of dissolved organic matter in the marine biogeochemical cycle: Studies using an ocean biogeochemical general circulation model

    Yasuhiro Yamanaka;Eiichi Tajika

  • Initial design for a fish bioenergetics model of Pacific saury coupled to a lower trophic ecosystem model

    Shin-Ichi Ito;Michio J. Kishi;Yutaka Kurita;Yoshioki Oozeki

  • Comparing food web structures and dynamics across a suite of global marine ecosystem models

    S.F. Sailley;M. Vogt;S.C. Doney;M.N. Aita

  • Global deep ocean oxygenation by enhanced ventilation in the Southern Ocean under long-term global warming

    A. Yamamoto;A. Abe‐Ouchi;M. Shigemitsu;M. Shigemitsu;A. Oka

  • Phytoplankton competition during the spring bloom in four plankton functional type models

    T. Hashioka;M. Vogt;Y. Yamanaka;Y. Yamanaka;C. Le Quéré

Frequent Co-Authors

Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia
Hiroya Yamano
Hiroya Yamano National Institute for Environmental Studies
James C. Orr
James C. Orr French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Ernst Maier-Reimer
Ernst Maier-Reimer Max Planck Society
Nicolas Gruber
Nicolas Gruber ETH Zurich
Gian-Kasper Plattner
Gian-Kasper Plattner Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Takafumi Hirata
Takafumi Hirata University of Tokyo
Anne Mouchet
Anne Mouchet University of Liège
Andrew Yool
Andrew Yool National Oceanography Centre

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