2021 - 2025 Antipredator tactics of Japanese eel juveniles: basic studies for releasing strategy
2019 - 2022 Effects of habitat degradation on trophic structure of communities in mangrove estuaries
2017 - 2021 Exploring the mechanism of resilience of ecosystem around mangrove estuary and seagrass meadows from the recovery processes after typhoon disturbance
2014 - 2018 A new approach to mangrove estuary conservation based on fish distribution and migration ecology
Kusuto Nanjo, Shun Kawaida, Haruka Doi, Takumi Yamamori. Food habits of fishes in salt marsh estuaries in the western Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Ichthyological Research. 2024. 71. 305-316
Kawaida Shun, Yamana Yusuke, Tanita Iwao, Nanjo Kusuto. First record of the sea cucumber Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinaceus Semper, 1868 (Holothuroidea: Holothuriida: Holothuriidae) from a Japanese mangrove forest. Laguna. 2023. 30. 61-70
Masashi Shimizu, Kusuto Nanjo, Iwao Tanita, Koetsu Kon, Hideaki Yamada. Food habits of fishes in a subtropical seagrass bed in Nagura Bay, Ishigaki Island, southern Japan. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 2022. 102. 361-369
Shun Kawaida, Kusuto Nanjo, Naoya Ohtsuchi, Hiroyoshi Kohno, Mitsuhiko Sano. Crabs assimilating cellulose materials drive the detritus food chain in a mangrove estuary. Food Webs. 2021. 26
Hiroyuki Inoue, Akira Mizutani, Kusuto Nanjo, Kouki Tsutsumi, Hiroyoshi Kohno. Fish assemblage structure response to seagrass bed degradation due to overgrazing by the green sea turtle Chelonia mydas at Iriomote Island, southern Japan. Ichthyological Research. 2021. 68. 1. 111-125