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Chih-Lin Wei

Associate Professor
Marine Biology & Fisheries
  • Field

    Benthic Ecology, Deep-sea Ecology, Community Ecology

  • Experiences

    • 2018-present Associate Professor, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University
    • 2014-2018 Assistant Professor, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University
    • 2011-2014 Post-doc, Ocean Science Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
    • 2007-2011 Ph. D., Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, USA
    • 2002-2006 M. S., Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, USA
    • 1995-1999 B.S., Department of Zoology, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

  • Honors

    • 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award from National Taiwan University

Teaching

Marine Ecology, Sea Lab., Field Work in Marine Biology, Taiwan Regional Oceanography, Environmental Ecology and Biodiversity, Independent Research, Deep-Sea Ecology, Introduction to Marine Science

Publications

Refereed Paper (*corresponding author)

  • Tian, S. Y.*, Langer, M.*, Yasuhara, M., Wei, C.-L. (2024) Reefal ostracod assemblages from the Zanzibar Archipelago (Tanzania). Biogeosciences, 21(15), 3523-3536. [Link]
  • Tzeng, Y. W., Hsueh, P. W., Wei, C.-L.* (2024) Microhabitat association and resistance of Tanaidacea (Crustacea) to tropical cyclones in rocky intertidal areas of central-eastern Taiwan. Hydrobiologia, 851(17), 4249-4267. [Link]
  • Chiu, L., Wang, M. C., Wei, C.-L., Lin, T. H., Tseng, Y. C. (2024) A two-year physicochemical and acoustic observation reveals spatiotemporal effects of earthquake-induced shallow-water hydrothermal venting on the surrounding environments. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 9(4), 423-432. [Link]
  • Lin, Y. V., Chateau, P. A., Nozawa, Y., Wei, C.-L., Wunderlich, R. F., Denis, V.* (2024) Drivers of coastal benthic communities in a complex environmental setting. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 203, 116462. [Link]
  • Tung, C. C., Lin, Y. S., Liao, J. X., Tu, T. H., Liu, J. T., Lin, L. H., Wang, P. L., Wei, C.-L.* (2024) Contrasting carbon cycling in the benthic food webs between a river-fed, high-energy canyon and an upper continental slope. Biogeosciences, 21(7), 1729-1756. [Link]
  • Joest, A. B., Huang, H. H. M., Hong, Y.Y., Wei, C.-L., Bauch, H. A., Thibodeau, B., Cronin, T. M., Okahashi, H., Yasuhara, M. (2024) Testing the deep-sea glacial disturbance hypothesis as a cause of low, present-day Norwegian Sea diversity and resulting steep latitudinal diversity gradient, using fossil records. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(7). [Link]
  • Zhang, J. W., Yasuhara, M., Wei, C.-L., Tian, S. Y., Aye, K. K. T., Gemery, L., Cronin, T. M., Frenzel, P., Horne, D. J. (2024) Sight and blindness: The relationship between ostracod eyes, water depth, and light availability in the Arctic Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography, 69(6), 1418-1428. [Link]
  • Costello, M. J.*, Corkrey, R., Bates, A. E., Burrows, M. T., Chaudhary, C., Edgar, G. J., Smith, R. D. S., Yasuhara, M., Wei, C.-L. (2024) The universal evolutionary and ecological significance of 20 °C. Frontiers Of Biogeography, 15(4), e61673. [Link]
  • Tung, C. C., Chen, Y. T., Liao, J. X., Wei, C. -L.* (2023) Response of the benthic biomass-size structure to a high-energy submarine canyon. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1122143. [Link]
  • Cheung, W. W. L.*, Wei, C. -L., Levin, L. A. (2022) Vulnerability of exploited deep-sea demersal species to ocean warming, deoxygenation, and acidification. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 105(10), 1301-1315. [Link]
  • Hong, Y. Y.*, Yasuhara, M.*, Iwatani, H., Harnik, P. G., Chao, A. N., Cybulski, J. D., Liu, Y., Ruan, Y. F., Li, X. D., Wei, C. -L.* (2022) Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urbanized seascape. Marine Micropaleontology, 174, 102067. [Link]
  • Soliman, Y. S. *, Rowe, G. T., Wicksten, M., Wei, C.-L. (2022) Diversity and Zonation of Benthic Amphipod Crustaceans Affected by the Mississippi Submarine Canyon in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers In Marine Science, 9, 822924. [Link]
  • Liu, H.*, El-Din, N.N., Rowe, G., Al-Ansi, M., Wei, C.-L., Soliman, Y., Nunnally, C., Quigg, A., Al-Ansari, I. S., Al-Maslamani, I., Abdel-Moati, M. A. (2022) Characteristics and renewal of zooplankton communities under extreme environmental stresses in the oligotrophic hypersaline Arabian Gulf. Progress In Oceanography, 201, 102643. [Link]
  • Hong, Y. Y.*, Yasuhara, M., Iwatani, H., Chao, A. N., Harnik, P. G., Wei, C.-L. (2021) Ecosystem turnover in an urbanized subtropical seascape driven by climate and pollution. Anthropocene, 38, 100304. [Link]
  • Washburn, T. W.*, Jones, D. O. B., Wei, C.-L., Smith, C. R. (2021) Environmental Heterogeneity Throughout the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and the Potential Representativity of the APEI Network. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.661685. [Link]
  • Sandulli, R.*, Ingels, J., Zeppilli, D., Sweetman, A. K.,Mincks, S. H., Mienis, F., Wei, C.-L. (2021) Editorial: Extreme Benthic Communities in the Age of Global Change. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 609648. SI. [Link]
  • Yasuhara, M.*, Huang, H. H. M., Hull, P., Rillo, M. C., Condamine, F. L., Tittensor, D. P., Kudera, M., Costello, M. J., Finnegan, S., O’Deo, A., Hong, Y. Y., Bonebrake, T. C., McKenzie, N. R., Doi, H., Wei, C.-L., Kubota, Y., Saupe, E. E. (2020) Time Machine Biology: Cross-Timescale Integration of Ecology, Evolution, and Oceanography. Oceanography, 33(2), 16-28. SI. [Link]
  • Liao, J.X., Wei, C.-L.*, Yasuhara, M. (2020) Species and Functional Diversity of Deep-Sea Nematodes in a High Energy Submarine Canyon. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 591. [Link]
  • Yasuhara, M.*, Wei, C.-L., Kucera, M., Costello, M.J., Tittensor, D.P., Kiessling, W., Bonebrake, T.C., Tabor, C.R., Feng, R., Baselga, A., Kretschmer, K., Kusumoto, B., Kubota, Y. (2020) Past and future decline of tropical pelagic biodiversity. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(23), 12891-12896. [Link]
  • Chiu, W.T.R., Yasuhara, M.*, Cronin, T.M, Hunt, G.m., Gemery, L., Wei, C.-L. (2020) Marine latitudinal diversity gradients, niche conservatism and out of the tropics and Arctic: Climatic sensitivity of small organisms. Journal of Biogeography, 47(4), 817-828. [Link]
  • Puerta, P.*, Johnson, C., Carreiro-Silva, M., Henry, L.A., Kenchington, E., Morato, T., Kazanidis, G., Rueda, J.L., Urra, J., Ross, S., Wei, C.-L., Gonzalez-Irusta, J.M., Arnaud-Haond, S., Orejas, C. (2020) Influence of Water Masses on the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Deep-Sea Benthic Ecosystems in the North Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 239. [Link]
  • Gallo, N. D.*, Beckwith, M., Wei, C.-L., Levin, L. A., Kuhnz, L., Barry, J. P. (2020) Dissolved oxygen and temperature best predict deep-sea fish community structure in the Gulf of California with climate change implications. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 637, 159-180. [Link]
  • Chao, A. N.*, Kubota, Y., Zeleny, D., Chiu, C.-H., Li, C.-F., Kusumoto, B., Yasuhara, M., Thorn, S., Wei, C.-L., Costello, M. J., Colwell, R. K. (2020) Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages. Ecological Research, 35(2), 292-314. SI. [Link]
  • Kusumoto, B.*, Costello, M. J., Kubota, Y., Shiono, T., Wei, C.-L., Yasuhara, M., Chao, A. N. (2020) Global distribution of coral diversity: Biodiversity knowledge gradients related to spatial resolution. Ecological Research, DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12096. [Link]
  • Morato, T.*, Gonzalez-Irusta, J.-M., Dominguez-Carrio, C., Wei, C.-L., Davies, A., et al. (2020) Climate-induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic. Global Change Biology, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14996. [Link]
  • Wei, C. L., Cusson, M.*, Archambault, P., Belley, R., Brown, T., Burd, B. J., Edinger, E., Kenchington, E., Gilkinson, K., Lawton, P., Link, H., Ramey-Balci, P. A., Scrosati, R. A., Snelgrove, P. V. R. (2020) Seafloor biodiversity of Canada’s three oceans: Patterns, hotspots and potential drivers. Diversity and Distributions, 26(2), 226-241. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13013. [Link]
  • Lin, Y. S., Lin, H.-T., Wang, B. S., Wu, S. F., Wang, P.-L., Wei, C.-L., Lee, H. F., Lan, T. F., Huang, W. J., Chen, S. C., Wang, Y. S., Su, C.-C. (2019) Early diagenesis and carbon remineralization in young rift sediment of the Southern Okinawa Trough. Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 30(5), 633-647. doi: 10.3319/TAO.2019.01.10.01. [Link]
  • Wei, C.-L., Cusson, M.*, Archambault, P., Belley, R., Brown, T., Burd, B. J., Edinger, E., Kenchington, E., Gilkinson, K., Lawton, P., Link, H., Ramey-Balci, P. A., Scrosati, R. A., Snelgrove, P. V. R. (2019) Seafloor biodiversity of Canada’s three oceans: Patterns, hotspots and potential drivers. Diversity and Distributions, 26(2), 226-241.
  • Stratmann, T.*, Soetaert, K., Wei, C.-L., Lin, Y. S., van Oevelen, D. (2019) The SCOC database, a large, open, and global database with sediment community oxygen consumption rates. Scientific Data, 6, 242.
  • Huang, S. P., Chen, T. Y., Chen, J. S., Wang, L. T., Huang, L. N., Lin, S. T., Wei, C.-L., Lin, S., Wang, P.-L., Chen, Y. M., Shieh, W.-Y.* (2019) Dongshaea marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic marine bacterium that ferments glucose with gas production. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 69(11), 3318-3325.
  • Jost, A. B., Yasuhara, M.*, Wei, C.-L., Okahashi, H., Ostmann, A., Arbizu, P. M., Mamo, B., Svavarsson, J., Brix, S. (2019) North Atlantic Gateway: Test bed of deep-sea macroecological patterns. Journal of Biogeography, 46(9), 2056-2066. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13632. [Link]
  • Cheung, R. C. W.*, Yasuhara, M., Iwatani, O., Wei, C.-L., Dong, Y. W. (2019) Benthic community history in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) mega-delta: Damming, urbanization, and environmental control. Paleobiology, 45(3), 469-483. doi: 10.1017/pab.2019.21. [Link]
  • Wei, C.-L.*, Rowe, G. T. (2019) Productivity controls macrofauna diversity in the deep northern Gulf of Mexico. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 143, 17-27. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.12.005 [Link]
  • Lin, Y. T., Tu, T. H., Wei, C.-L., Rumble, D., Lin, L. H., Wang, P. L.* (2018) Steep redox gradient and biogeochemical cycling driven by deeply sourced fluids and gases in a terrestrial mud volcano. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(11), fiy171. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiy171
  • Snelgrove, P. V. R.*, Soetaert, K., Solan, M., Thrush, S., Wei, C.-L., Danovaro, R., Fulweiler, R. W., Kitazato, H., Ingole, B., Norkko, A., Parkes, R. J., Volkenborn, N. (2018) Global Carbon Cycling on a Heterogeneous Seafloor. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 33 (2), 96-105. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.11.004 [Link]
  • Sweetman, A. K.*, Thurber, A. R., Smith, C.R., Levin, L. A., Mora, C., Wei, C.-L., Gooday, A. J., Jones, D. O. B., Rex, M., Yasuhara, M., Ingels, J., Ruhl, H. A., Frieder, C. A., Danovaro, R., Wurzberg, L., Baco, A., Grupe, B. M., Pasulka, A., Meyer, K. S., Dunlop, K. M., Henry, L. A., Roberts, J. M. (2017) Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems. Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene, 5, 1-23. doi: 10.1525/elementa.203 [Link]
  • Liao, J. X., Chen, G. M., Chiou, M. D., Jan, S., Wei, C.-L.* (2017) Internal tides affect benthic community structure in an energetic submarine canyon off SW Taiwan. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 125: 147-160. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2017.05.014. [Link]
  • Stuart, C. T.*, Brault, S., Rowe, G. T., Wei, C.-L., Wagstaff, M., McClain, C. R., Rex, M. A. (2017) Nestedness and species replacement along bathymetric gradients in the deep sea reflect productivity: a test with polychaete assemblages in the oligotrophic north-west Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Biogeography, 44 (3):548-555. doi:10.1111/jbi.12810. [Link]
  • Yasuhara, M.* Doi, H.*, Wei, C.-L.*, Danovaro, R., Myhre, S. E. (2016) Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in long-term time series and palaeoecological records: deep sea as a test bed, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1694):10.1098/rstb.2015.0282 [Link]
  • C.-L. Wei, Rowe, G.T., Al-Ansi, M., Al-Maslamani, I., Soliman, Y., El-Din, N. N., Al-Ansari, I. S., Al-Shaikh, I., Quigg, A., Nunnally, C., Abdel-Moati, M. (2016) Macrobenthos in the central Arabian Gulf: a reflection of climate extremes and variability, Hydrobiologia, 770 (1): 53-72, doi: 10.1007/s10750-015-2568-7. [Link]
  • Rowe, G. T., Wei, C.-L., Al-Ansi, M., Soliman, Y., Al-Maslamani, I., El-Din, N. N., Al-Ansari, I. S., Al-Shaikh, I., Quigg, A., Nunnally, C., Youseff, N., Abdel-Moati, M. A. (2015) The dynamics of the coastal food webs in the Central Arabian Sea, QScience Proceedings, 5, 2. [Link]
  • Jones, D. O. B.*, Yool, A., Wei, C.-L., Henson, S. A., Ruhl, H. A., Watson, R. A., Gehlen, M., (2014) Global reductions in seafloor biomass in response to climate change. Global Change Biology 20 (6), 1861–1872. [Link] [Press Release]
  • Mora, C.*, Wei, C.-L., Rollo, A., Amaro, T., Baco, A. R., Billett, D., Bopp, L., Chen, Q., Collier, M., Danovaro, R., Gooday, A. J., Grupe, B. M., Halloran, P. R., Ingels, J., Jones, D. O. B., Levin, L. A., Nakano, H., Norling, K., Ramirez-Llodra, E., Rex, M., Ruhl, H. A., Smith, C. R., Sweetman, A. K., Thurber, A. R., Tjiputra, J. F., Usseglio, P., Watling, L., Wu, T., Yasuhara, M. (2013) Biotic and Human Vulnerability to Projected Changes in Ocean Biogeochemistry over the 21st Century. PLoS Biology 11, e1001682. [Link] [Press Release]
  • Carvalho, R.*, Wei, C.-L., Rowe, G. T., Schulze, A. (2013) Complex depth-related patterns in the taxonomic and functional diversity of polychaetes in the Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 80, 66-77. [Link]
  • Quigg, A.*, Al-Ansi, M., Al Din, N. N., Wei, C.-L., Nunnally, C., Al-Ansari, I. S., Rowe, G., Soliman, Y., Al-Maslamani, I., Mahmoud, I., Youseff, N., Abdel-Moati, M. A., (2013) Phytoplankton along the coastal shelf of an oligotrophic hypersaline environment in a semi-enclosed marginal sea: Qatar and the Arabian Gulf. Continental Shelf Research 60, 1–16. [Link]
  • Wei, C.-L.*, Rowe, G. T., Haedrich, R. L., Boland, G. S. (2012) Long-term observations of epibenthic fish zonation in the deep northern Gulf of Mexico. PLoS One 7(10): e46707 [Link]
  • Wei, C.-L.*, Rowe, G. T., Escobar-Briones, E., Nunnally, C., Soliman, Y., Ellis, N. (2012) Standing stocks and body size of deep-sea macrofauna: Predicting the baseline for 2010 BP oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 69:82-99 [Link]
  • Pitcher, C. R.*, Lawton, P., Ellis, N., Smith, S., Incze, L., Wei, C-L., Greenlaw, M., Wolff, N., Sameoto, J., Snelgrove, P. V. R. (2012) Exploring the role of environmental variables in shaping patterns of seabed biodiversity composition in regional-scale ecosystems. Journal of Applied Ecology 49 (3), 670-679 [Link]
  • Wei, C-L.*, Rowe, G.T., Nunnally, C., Wicksten, M. K. (2012) Anthropogenic “litter” and macrophyte detritus in the deep northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Pollution Bulletin 64: 966-973. [Link]
  • Wei, C.-L.*, Rowe, G.T., Escobar-Briones, E., Boetius, A., Soltwedel, T., Caley, M. J., Soliman, Y., Huettmann, F., Qu, F., Yu, Z., Pitcher, CR., Haedrich, R. L., Wicksten, M. K., Rex, M. A., Baguley, J. G., Sharma, J., Danovaro, R., MacDonald, I. R., Nunnally, C. C., Deming, J. W., Montagna, P., Lévesque, M., Weslawski, J. M., Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, M., Ingole, B. S., Bett, B. J., Billett, D. S. M., Yool, A., Bluhm, B. A., Iken, K., Narayanaswamy, B. E. (2010) Global Patterns and Predictions of Seafloor Biomass Using Random Forests. PLoS One 5:e15323 [Link] [Hightlights on Discovery News] [Hightlights on National Oceanography Center] [National Geography Map]
  • Wei, C.-L.*, Rowe, G. T., Hubbard, G. F., Scheltema, A. H., Wilson, G. D. F., Petrescu, I., Foster, J., Wicksten, M. K., Chen, M., Davenport, R., Soliman, Y., Wang, Y. (2010) Feature Article: Bathymetric zonation of deep-sea macrofauna in relation to export of surface phytoplankton production. Marine Ecology Progress Series 399:1-14 [Link] [Highlights on Deep-Sea News]
  • Wei, C.-L., Rowe, G. T.* (2009) Faunal zonation of large epibenthic invertebrates off North Carolina revisited. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 56:1830-1833 [Link]
  • Rowe, G. T.*, Wei, C.-L., Nunnally, C., Haedrich, R., Montagna, P., Baguley, J. G., Bernhard, J. M., Wicksten, M., Ammons, A., Briones, E. E., Soliman, Y., Deming, J. W. (2008) Comparative biomass structure and estimated carbon flow in food webs in the deep Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 55:2699-2711 [Link]
  • Rowe, G. T.*, Wei, C.-L., Nunnally, C., Haedrich, R., Montagna, P., Baguley, J. G., Bernhard, J. M., Wicksten, M., Ammons, A., Briones, E. E., Soliman, Y., Deming, J. W. (2008) Comparative biomass structure and estimated carbon flow in food webs in the deep Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 55:2699-2711 [Link]
  • Wei, C.-L., Rowe, G. T.* (2006) The bathymetric zonation and community structure of deep-sea macrobenthos in the northern Gulf of Mexico. ICES Annual Science Conference, 19–23 Sep, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 92 pp.
  • Wei, C.-L. (2011) Standing stocks and faunal zonation of deep-sea benthos: patterns and predictions across scales. PH. D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, 311 pp [Link]
  • Wei, C.-L. (2007) The bathymetric zonation and community structure of deep-sea macrobenthos in the northern Gulf of Mexico. M. S. Thesis, Texas A&M University, 92 pp. [Link]