2026-11-12 京都大学

木津川の砂州に設置された伝統河川工法「聖牛」と、その周囲に形成された水辺
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河川砂州内の水域の季節的・空間的変動と底生大型無脊椎動物群集(Seasonal and spatial dynamics of in-channel water bodies on a river sandbar and associated macroinvertebrate communities)
Moe Nakamura, Naoko Hara, Chiho Yamanaka, Hye-Ji Oh, Hideyuki Doi, Aki Tanaka, Yuko Ishida, Yasuhiro Takemon, Izumi Katano
PLOS ONE, 21(11), e0360065 (2026) 2026-11-11
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0360065
Small in-channel water bodies, such as backwaters and riverine ponds, provide important habitats for maintaining freshwater biodiversity. However, how their environmental conditions and biological communities vary with season and fine-scale geomorphological differences within river sandbars remains poorly understood. This study investigated backwaters and riverine ponds formed around traditional wooden river-training structures known as Seigyu on a sandbar in the Kizu River, central Japan. Five seasonal surveys were conducted between June 2020 and June 2021 to examine environmental conditions and benthic macroinvertebrate communities. The results revealed pronounced seasonal variations and fine-scale spatial gradients in environmental conditions, including water temperature, even over distances of several tens of meters. The macroinvertebrate communities in these water bodies differed from those in the main channel and included numerous habitat-specific taxa. Upstream backwaters tended to exhibit relatively stable environmental conditions and higher biodiversity, whereas downstream backwaters and riverine ponds showed more pronounced seasonal community turnover. These findings indicate that in-channel water bodies function not simply as permanent refuges but as dynamic habitats in which biological communities are repeatedly reorganized through interactions between seasonal hydrological changes and local geomorphological heterogeneity. River management practices that maintain sandbar dynamics and promote diverse in-channel habitats may therefore contribute to freshwater biodiversity conservation.
原論文:PLOS ONE 原論文
