Research field (4)：
Ecology and environmental science
, Biological resource conservation
, Social-ecological systems
, Agricultural environmental and information engineering
Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：
2019 - 2023 Study on a fishway design suitable for the upstream migration for reproduction of the endangered loach (Parabotia curtus) in paddy field areas
2017 - 2021 Eradication methods for an invasive crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) inhabiting paddy field areas
Papers (72)：
Quang-Tuong Luong, Rika Shiraishi, Tadashi Kawai, Koki R. Katsuhara, Kazuyoshi Nakata. Reproductive biology of the introduced red-swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) (Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae) in western Japan. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 2023. 43. 4
Masakazu TADA, Yumi MIYAKE, Yoshitaka NAKASHIMA, Kunio ITO, Minoru SAITO, Kazuyoshi NAKATA. Habitat preference of the endangered Nagoya Daruma Pond Frog (Pelophylax porosus brevipodus) in paddy levees and fallow paddy fields of Kurashiki, Okayama, western Japan. Ecology and Civil Engineering. 2023. 25. 2. 71-85
Kanoko Otsuki, Mayuko Hamada, Noriyuki Koizumi, Tatsuya Sakamoto, Kazuyoshi Nakata. Quantitative PCR method to detect an extremely endangered bitterling fish (Rhodeus atremius suigensis) using environmental DNA. Landscape and Ecological Engineering. 2023. 19. 1. 79-86
Saito Minoru, Yamashiro Tadashi, Hamano Tatsuo, Nakata Kazuyoshi. Introducing "factors affecting distribution of freshwater shrimps and prawns in the Hiwasa River, southern central Japan"(Carcinological Society of Japan Award 2013). CANCER. 2015. 24. 1-6
Effective entrance size of shrimp traps for capturing the invasive crayfish Procambarus clarkii inhabiting paddy field areas
(2019 Seoul INWEPF & PAWEES International Conference 2019)
Reproductive season of an endangered bitterling fish (Rhodeus atremius suigensis) inhabiting agricultural channels, western Japan
(2019 Seoul INWEPF & PAWEES International Conference 2019)
Upstream migration of fish in a detachable portable fishway at a steep slope section in an agricultural channel, western Japan
(2019 Seoul INWEPF & PAWEES International Conference 2019)
