@article{oai:nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00015631, author = {玉置, 昭夫}, issue = {1}, journal = {日本プランクトン学会報, Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan}, month = {Feb}, note = {It has long been recognized that for the community organization of marine benthic invertebrates, processes during pelagic larval stages, mostly lasting for several weeks, are important as well as processes during benthic stages. However, such recognition was not explicitly incorporated into the framework of investigation until the early 1980's even in the rocky intertidal community ecology, which has provided a number of important principles to the community organization theory in general. More emphasis had been placed on postsettlement processes such as competition and predation. Recent growing body of evidence has shown that presettlement processes such as planktonic survival and return success to adult habitats may be more crucial. However, 'supply-side ecology', which deals with these processes, has been confronted with essential difficulty in seeking for metapopulation and/or metacommunity dynamics. The hardest obstacle is to specify source-sink relationships between regional populations comprising a metapopulation. This is especially true of rocky intertidal communities, which are sometimes inaccessible in the case of wave-beaten, exposed shores. The present paper highlights the advantage of a set of small- to medium-sized intertidal sandflats as a target study system for metapopulation/ metacommunity dynamics. A case study conducted on intertidal sandflats and their offshore waters in western Kyushu, Japan for more than 20 years points to the importance of presettlement processes in the organization of a metacommunity situated in a meso-scale space., 日本プランクトン学会報, 50(1), pp.41-47; 2003}, pages = {41--47}, title = {これからのプランクトン研究をどうするか - ベントス(底生無脊椎動物)生態学の視点から}, volume = {50}, year = {2003} }