Research Highlights

Mercury bioaccumulation and trophic transfer in Pacific Saury from the North Pacific Ocean

Drivers of coastal benthic communities in a complex environmental setting

Microhabitat association and resistance of Tanaidacea (Crustacea) to tropical cyclones in rocky intertidal areas of central-eastern Taiwan

Asynchronous evolution of ocean temperatures and ice sheets across the most recent global climate transition on Earth ~3 million years ago

Trade-offs between competitive ability and resistance to top-down control in marine microbes

Deterministic assembly processes strengthen the effects of β-diversity on community biomass of marine bacterioplankton

Are there waterfalls in the ocean interior?

Mercury stable isotopes explore sources of methylmercury in giant Pacific Bluefin tuna

Rapid increase of pCO2 and seawater acidification along Kuroshio of the East China Sea

Colloidal organic phosphorus in the South China Sea

Using foraminifera to reconstruct past bathymetry and geohazard events offshore Taiwan

TIMCOM model datasets for the CMIP6 Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

Zooplankton ecology matters for paleoceanographic reconstructions

Habitat change and its consequences on reef fish specialization in biogeographic transition zones

Improving the Predictability of Two Types of ENSO by the Characteristics of Extratropical Precursors

“Kuroshio paradox”－Coastal uplift supports more energy transferred to higher tropical levels in this oligotrophic Kuroshio ecosystem

Rapid Restratification of the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer during the Suppressed Phase of MJOs

Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context

Observing Surface Waves in Subsurface Layer

A GOOD STRATEGIST KNOWS HOW TO BEHAVE: THE TROPHIC PLASTICITY OF CORALS

Evaluation of the Impacts of Climate Change on Albacore Distribution in the South Pacific Ocean by Using Ensemble Forecast

Carbon and nitrogen isoscape of particulate organic matter in the euphotic zone reflect the primary production and microbial activity in the East China Sea

Reconstructing large interaction networks from empirical time series data

Exploring global pollution and cycling of mercury using ocean migratory fish

A joint atmosphere-ocean observation reveals upper ocean response to summertime atmospheric intraseasonal oscillations in the tropical South China Sea

Learning from differences: Abiotic determinism of benthic communities in Northern Taiwan

Hump-shaped relationship between aggregation tendency and body size within fish populations

236U/238U analysis of femtogram 236U by MC-ICPMS

Stratigraphic Framework and Sediment Wave Fields Associated with Canyon-Levee Systems in the Huatung Basin Offshore Taiwan Orogen

Community assembly processes as a mechanistic explanation of the predator-prey diversity relationship in marine microbes

Precipitation and Patagonian ice sheet drive past marine productivity of the southern Humboldt Current

Influence of Anomalous Low-level Circulation on the Kuroshio in the Luzon Strait during ENSO

Impacts of Saharan Mineral Dust on Air-Sea Interaction over North Atlantic Ocean Using a Fully Coupled Regional Model

Long-term warming destabilizes aquatic ecosystems through weakening biodiversity-mediated causal networks

Lessons from a high-CO2 world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago

Life histories determine divergent population trends for fishes under climate warming

Temporal variations of submarine groundwater discharge into a tide-dominated coastal wetland (Gaomei Wetland, Western Taiwan) indicated by radon and radium Isotopes

Impact of ENSO on the South China Sea during ENSO decaying periods (a new mesoscale perspective from the regional coupled model)

Discovery of numerous pingos and comet-shaped depressions offshore southwestern Taiwan

Physical disturbances in submarine canyon impact biodiversity of deep-sea nematodes

Phytoplankton nutritional content, rather than primary production, critically limits marine zooplankton production

Archaeal membrane lipid-based paleothermometry for applications in polar oceans.

Oceanography research in the 2nd KU-NTU Colloquium

NTU oceanographer and international team discovered ongoing and future tropical diversity decline

Truncated age structure and warming temperature drive marine fishes into uneven spatial distribution, weakening their sustainability

What the Kuroshio swifts Cape Eluanbi will bring on

Spatiotemporal Variations in Dissolved Elemental Mercury in the River-Dominated and Monsoon-Influenced East China Sea: Drivers, Budgets, and Implications.

Deep sea floor observations of typhoon driven enhanced ocean turbulence

Enhancing the ENSO Predictability beyond the Spring Barrier

Could the North Pacific Oscillation be modified by the initiation of the East Asian Winter Monsoon?

Response of the Kuroshio east of Taiwan to mesoscale eddies and upstream variations

Water stratification affected the vertical beta diversity of bacterioplankton in the Kuroshio

Seafloor Biodiversity of Canada’s Three Oceans

Body size, along with light intensity and nutrient supply, determines plankton stoichiometry

On Baroclinic Instability over Continental Shelves: Testing the Utility of Eady-Type Models. Journal of Physical Oceanography

Marine 3D seismic volumes from 2D seismic survey with large streamer feathering.

Quantitative reconstruction of salinity history by otolith oxygen stable isotopes: An example of a euryhaline fish Lateolabrax japonicus

Revisiting the data reduction of seafloor heat-flow measurement: The example of mapping hydrothermal venting site around Yonaguni Knoll IV in the South Okinawa Trough.

Spatial and temporal variations of sediment metals in the Tuul River, Mongolia

OceanGliders: Boundary Ocean Observing Network (BOON)

Seaglider observations revealed striking interleaving layers in the Kuroshio east of Taiwan

Resource availability affects temporal variation of phytoplankton size spectral slopes in the Kuroshio east of Taiwan

Acknowledging differences: number, characteristics, and distribution of marine benthic communities along Taiwan coast

Exploration of the mesophotic coral ecosystems in Taiwan

Characterization of dissolved arsenics in the South China Sea

The Common Weak Biases of Pacific North Equatorial Countercurrent in Ocean Models Are Revealed

“Haste makes waste” in the evolution of typhoons

Steep redox gradient and biogeochemical cycling driven by deeply sourced fluids and gases in a terrestrial mud volcano

Species diversity of marine bacterioplankton communities is predictable due to macro-evolutionary constraints

Biogeography of functional trait diversity in the Taiwanese reef fish fauna

Formation and preservation of authigenic pyrite in the methane dominated environment

Experiences gained from the 2018 IONTU-TUMSAT students exchange in Tokyo, Japan

Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University (IONTU) – Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo (AORI) bilateral workshop

Establishment of a novel genus for a marine bacterium recovered from the lagoon of Dongsha Island, Taiwan

Molecular assessment of Pocillopora verrucosa (Scleractinia; Pocilloporidae) distribution along a depth gradient in Ludao, Taiwan

Numerical study and observation reveal dynamics for island wakes in the Kuroshio

Spatial variation in the morphological traits of Pocillopora verrucosa along a depth gradient in Taiwan

A small-scaled study provides insight into how fish adapt to future environmental changes

Pelagic larval duration, growth rate, and population genetic structure ofthe tidepool snake moray Uropterygius micropterus around the southern Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and the central Philippines

Fishing, rather than temperature, has the most prominent effect on size structure of exploited fish populations

Predator and prey biodiversity relationship and its consequences on marine ecosystem functioning—Interplay between nanoflagellates and bacterioplankton

D indices: novel biodiversity indices to disentangle food web complexity through network unfolding theory

Scientist of National Taiwan University leading the team with scientists in Japan won 18th Ecological Research Paper Award & 6th Taiwan-Japan Ecology Workshop will be organized in Tainan 2018

Scientist of National Taiwan University joining with an international team develops a new method to examine the link between the time-varying interaction network and community stability in natural systems

The Kuroshio research of Prof. Ming-Huei Chang is selected as the cover page of Deep-Sea Research

Elemental cycling in terrestrial mud volcanoes is affected by microbial communities and metabolic characteristics

Benthic community affects global carbon turnover on the seafloor

Marine bacterial and protist communities are differentially influenced by species sorting and dispersal limitation

Observations in the context of numerical modeling examine the dynamics underlying eddy-Kuroshio interactions

The warm blob in the northeastern Pacific-the bridge leading to the 2015/16 El Niño

A new functional approach investigating the role of coral assemblages based on colonies’ morphology

Dissolved and Colloidal Arsenic in the Western Philippine Sea

Explore evolutionary forces underlying community assembly by tracking the strength of community-environment relationships at fine to broad taxonomic resolutions.

Lake warming and water level manipulation drive out rare species of phytoplankton, revitalizing debates on community structure

Scientist of National Taiwan University with an international team proposed a novel approach to assess the functional redundancy of ecosystem and the importance of biodiversity

Effects of size diversity on trophic interactions in ocean ecosystems

Scientist of National Taiwan University joining with an international team develops a new method that helps examine climate impacts on fisheries.

Seasonal Changes in Gaseous Elemental Mercury in Relation to Monsoon Cycling over the Northern South China Sea

Incorporating habitat preference into the stock assessment and management of blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) in the Pacific Ocean

Modelling the growth of crustacean species