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Status of Biodiversity Loss in Lakes and Ponds in Japan

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The Biodiversity Observation Network in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Water is essential for life. In Japan we use approximately 83.1 billion m3 of water per year, 87% of which is derived from rivers and lakes and 13% from groundwater. To satisfy our water demand, the Japanese government constructed about 3,000 reservoirs (with bank heights ≥15.0 m) during the latter half of the twentieth century, and these reservoirs produce another 23.8 billion m3 of available water (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism of Japan 2010; Japan Dam Foundation 2007). In addition, Japan imports large quantities of food estimated to be equivalent to 74.4 billion m3 of virtual water annually (Oki and Kanae 2004).

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Acknowledgment

I thank M. Nakagawa, at NIES, for her help in drawing figures. The publication of this study was encouraged by the partial support of the Environmental Research and Technology Development Fund (S9) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.

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    Noriko Takamura

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    Tetsukazu Yahara

  3. Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Tohru Nakashizuka

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Takamura, N. (2012). Status of Biodiversity Loss in Lakes and Ponds in Japan. In: Nakano, Si., Yahara, T., Nakashizuka, T. (eds) The Biodiversity Observation Network in the Asia-Pacific Region. Ecological Research Monographs. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54032-8_10

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