Ecology and Distribution of Groundwater Crustacea and Freshwater Ostracoda in SW Honshu and the Nansei Islands, Japan. I Groundwater Crustacea & List of Stations

This project was originally planned to take place in the summer of 1985. Due to unforeseen circumstances it could not in fact be carried out until the autumn of 1986. This meant that some aspects of the project had to be changed because of seasonal influences. One major drawback was the absence of any flooded rice fields, because the fieldwork was done after the growing and harvesting of the rice. It was therefore impossible to collect any ostracods from ricefields in south west Honshu. Since the rice fields are one of the major ostracod habitats in Japan, this meant a dramatic decrease of the number of possible collecting sites.