Proceedings of the specialists' meeting on effects of the Fukushima-1 accident on animals and plants around the NPP site

Being motivated by the historical event of the Fukushima-1 NPP accident, many scientists in Japan of various fields began activities to investigate the consequences of the accident using their own specialties. At the beginning of 2014, Fukumoto M. of Tohoku University and Imanaka T. of Kyoto University talked to have a workshop of scientists who have been involved in research on the effects of the Fukushima-1 accident on animals and plants in the environment. The first workshop was held August 10-11, 2014 at Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University. During twelve presentations, various interesting discussions were made among 40 participants. The results of this workshop are now being prepared as a special issue of Journal of Radiation Research. The second workshop was held August 10-11, 2015 also at Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University. There were 24 presentations and more than 70 participants. This report (KURRI-EKR-4) is prepared as the proceedings of the second workshop. Power Point files at the workshop and URL of previous papers are shown at the following: http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/FSEB/. Through discussions during two workshops, we feel complexity of ecology, which makes us difficult to find clear conclusions. Anyway, using different approaches by various scientists to observe the nature and through the serious discussion based on various observations, we hope to find out something certain about the consequences of the Fukushima-1 accident. This issue is the collection of 21 papers presented at the entitled meeting. All the 21 of the presented papers are indexed individually. (J.P.N.)