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* Corresponding author; ^Equal contribution​​​​
  1. Lin, C.-H.*, Wei, C.-L., Ho, S.L., Lo, L.* Ocean temperature-driven changes in the mesopelagic fish community of the Pacific Warm Pool over the past 460,000 years. (In revision) Science Advance.
  2. Costello, M.J.*, Corkrey, R., Bates, A.E., Burrows, M.T., Chaudhary, C., Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Yasuhara, M., ​​Wei, C.-L. (In revision) The universal evolutionary and ecological significance of 20 ̊C. PeerJ
  3. Tung, C.-C., Chen, Y.-T., Liao, J.-X., ​​​Wei, C.-L.* (Accepted) Response of the benthic biomass-size structure to a high-energy submarine canyon. Frontiers in Marine Science.​
  4. Mamo, B. L.*, Cybulski, J. D., Hong, Y., Harnik, P. G., Chao, A., Tsujimoto, A., Wei, C.-L.*, Baker, D.M.*, Yasuhara, M*. (2023). Modern biogeography of benthic foraminifera in an urbanized tropical marine ecosystem. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 529, SP529-2022–175. [link]
  5. Yasuhara, M.*, Huang, H.-H. M.*, Reuter, M., Yunshu Tian, S.Y.*, Cybulski, J.D.*, O’Dea, A.*, Mamo, B.L.*, Cotton, L.J.*, Di Martino, E.*, Feng, R., Tabor, C.R., Reygondeau, G., Zhao, Q., Warne, M.T., Aye, K.K.T., Zhang, J., Chao, A., Wei, C.-L., Condamine, F.L., Kocsis, A.T., Kiessling, W., Costello, M.J., Tittensor, D.P., Chaudhary, C., Rillo, M.C., Doi, H., Dong, Y.-W., Cronin, T.M., Saupe, E.E., Lotze, H.K., Johnson, K.G., Renema, W., Pandolfi, J.M., Harzhauser, M., Jackson, J.B.C., Hong, Y. (2022). Hotspots of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 60: 243-300 [link]
  6. Chiu, L., Wang, M.-C., Tseng, K.-Y., Wei, C.-L., Lin, H.-T., Yang, S.-H., Tseng, Y.-C.*, (2022). Shallow-water hydrothermal vent system as an extreme proxy for discovery of microbiome significance in a crustacean holobiont. Frontiers in Marine Science 9. [link]
  7. Cheung, W.W.E.*, Wei, C.-L., Levin, L. (2022) Vulnerability of exploited deep-sea demersal species to ocean warming, deoxygenation, and acidification. Environmental Biology of Fishes [link]
  8. 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 0. [link]
  9. Hong, Y.*^, Yasuhara, M.*^, Iwatani, H.^, Harnik, P.G.^, Chao, A., Cybulski, J.D., Liu, Y., Ruan, Y., Li, X., Wei, C.-L.*^ (2021). Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urbanized seascape. Marine Micropaleontology 102067. [link] 
  10. Hong, Y.^, Yasuhara, M.^, Iwatani, H.^, Chao, A.^, Harnik, P.^, Wei, C.-L.^ (2021) Ecosystem turnover in an urbanized subtropical seascape driven by climate and pollution. Anthropocene​ 36 [link] [Press Release] [Press Release]
  11. Liu, H.*, Nour El-Din, 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. (2021) Characteristics and renewal of zooplankton communities under extreme environmental stresses in the oligotrophic hypersaline Arabian Gulf.​ Progress in Oceanography [link]
  12. 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. fmars.2021.661685 [link]
  13. Shantharam, A., Wei, C.-L., Silva, M., Baco-Taylor, A.R.* (2021) Macrofauna Diversity and Community Structure of the DeSoto Canyon and Adjacent Slope. Marine Ecology Progress Series 664:23-42. [link]​​
  14. Sandulli, R.*, Ingels, J., Zeppilli, D., Sweetman, A. K., Hardy, S. M., Mienis, F., Wei, C.-L. (2020). EDITORIAL for Special Issue "Extreme Benthic Communities in the Age of Global Change" Frontiers in Marine Science Global Change and the Future Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7 [link]
  15. Yasuhara, M., Huang, H.-H. M., Hull, P., Rillo, M. C., Condamine, F. L., Tittensor, D. P., Kučera, M., Costello, M. J., Finnegan, S., O’Dea, A., Hong, Y., Bonebrake, T. C., McKenzie, N. R., Doi, H., Wei, C.-L., Kubota, Y., and Saupe, E. E. (2020) Time machine biology: cross-timescale integration of ecology, evolution, and oceanography. Oceanography. [link]
  16. 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. [link] [Press Release] [Press Release]
  17. Levin, L.*, Wei, C.-L., Dunn, D., Amon, D., Ashford, O., Cheung, W., Colaco, A., Dominguez-Carrió, C., Escobar, E., Harden-Davies, H., Drazen, J., Ismail, K., Jones, D., Johnson, D., Le, J., Lejzerowicz, F., Mitarai, S., Morato, T., Mulsow, S., Snelgrove, P., Sweetman, A., Yasuhara, M. (2020) Climate Change Considerations are Fundamental to Management of Deep-Sea Resource Extraction, Global Change Biology. 26(9):4664-4678 [link]
  18. Stratmann, T., van Oevelen, D., Arbizu, P.M., Wei, C.-L. , Jian-Xiang, Liao, J.-X., Cusson, M., Scrosati, R.A., Archambault, P., Snelgrove, P.V.R., Ramey-Balci, P.A., Burd, B.J., Kenchington, E., Gilkinson, K., Belley, R., Soetaert, K. (2020) The BenBioDen database, a global database for meio-, macro- and megabenthic biomass and densities​. Scientific Data​. [link]
  19. Yasuhara, M.*^, Wei, C.-L.^, Kucera, M., Costello, M.J., Tittensor, D.P., Kiessling, W., Bonebrake, T.C, Tabor, C., 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 U.S.A​​  [link] [Press Release] [Press Release] [Press Release] [Press Release]
  20. 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., González-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. 21 [link]
  21. Chao, A.*, Kubota, Y., Zelený, 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​​. [link] [PDF]
  22. Wei, C.-L.*, Chen, M., Wicksten, M., Rowe, G. T. (2020) Macrofauna Bivalve Diversity from the Deep Northern Gulf of Mexico. Ecological Research. [link]
  23. Kusumoto, B.*, Costello, M.J., Kubota, Y.,Shiono, T,, Wei, C.-L., Yasuhara, M., Chao, A. (2020) Global distribution of coral diversity: biodiversity knowledge gradients related to spatial resolution. Ecological Research​. [link] [PDF]
  24. Morato, T.*, González-Irusta, J., Dominguez-Carrió, C., Wei, C.-L., and 56 others (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. [link] [PDF]
  25. Chiu, W.-T. R.^, Yasuhara, M.*^, Cronin, T. M., Hunt, G., 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​. [link]
  26. Gallo, N.D.*, Beckwith, M., Wei, C.-L ., Levin, L.A., Kuhnz, L., Barry, J. (2020) Dissolved oxygen and temperature
    best predict deep-sea fish community structure in the Gulf of California with implications for climate change.     Marine Ecology Progress Series. [link] [Video] [Press Release] [Press Release]
  27. Wei, C.-L., Cusson, M.*, Archambault, P.,  Belley, R., Brown, T., Burd, B.J., Edinger, E., Kenchington, E., Gilkinson, K., 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 Distribution. 26(2):226-241​ [link] [PDF] [Press Release] [Press Release]
  28. 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 242. [link] [Press Release] 
  29. Cheung, C. W. R., Yasuhara, M., Iwatani, H., Wei, C.-L., Dong, Y. (2019) Benthic community history in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) mega delta: Damming, urbanization, and environmental control. Paleobiology. 45(3): 469-483 [link] 
  30. Jöst, A. B.^, Yasuhara, M.*^, Wei, C.-L.^, Okahashi, H., Ostmann, A., Arbizu, P. M., Svavarsson, J., Brix, S. (2019) North Atlantic Gateway: Test bed of deep-sea macroecological patterns. Journal of Biogeography. 46(9): 2056-2066 [link] [PDF]
  31. Lin, Y.-S., Lin, H.-T., Wang, B.-S., Wang, P.-L., Wei, C.-L., Lee, H.-F., Lan, T, 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. 30:633-647​​ [link]
  32. ​Wei, C.-L.*, Rowe, G.T. (2019) Productivity controls macrofauna diversity in the deep northern Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part I. 143:17-27 [link] 
  33. 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., Shieh, W.-Y.* (2018) Dongshaea marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic marine bacterium that ferments glucose with gas production. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology​ [link]
  34. 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​. [Link] [PDF] 
  35. Snelgrove, P.V.R.*, Soetaert, K., Solan, M., Thrush, S., Wei, C.-L., Danovaro, R., Fulweiler, R., 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 [Link] [PDF] [Press Release] [Press Release]
  36. Liao, J.-X., Chen, G.-M., Chiou, M., 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 [Link] [PDF] [Press Release]
  37. 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., Würzberg, 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: 4 [Link] [PDF]
  38. Stuart, C.T.*, Brault, S., Rowe, G.T., Wei, C.-L., Wagstaff, M., McClain, C.R., Rex, M.A., (2016) 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. [Link] [PDF]
  39. ​Yasuhara*, M., Doi, H.*, Wei, C.-L.*, Danovaro, R., Myhre, S. H. (2016) Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in long-term time series and palaeoecological records: deep sea as a test bed. Philosophical Transactions B 371 : 2015028 [Link] [PDF]
  40. Wei, C.-L.*, Rowe, G.T., Al-Ansi, M., Al-Maslamani, I., Soliman, Y., Al-Ansari, I.S., Al-Shaikh, I., Quigg, A., Nunnally, C., Abdel-Moati, M.A. (2016) Macrobenthos in the Central Arabian Gulf: a Reflection of Climate Extremes and Variabilities.  Hydrobiologia 770:53-72. [Link] [PDF]
  41. 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. Glob. Change Biol. 20 (6), 1861–1872. [Link] [PDF] [Press Release]
  42. 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] [PDF] [Press Release]
  43. 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] [PDF]
  44. 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] [PDF
  45. 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] [PDF]
  46. 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] [PDF]
  47. 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] [PDF]
  48. 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] [PDF]
  49. 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] [PDF] [Hightlights on Discovery News]
  50. 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] [PDF] [Highlights on Deep-Sea News]
  51. 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] [PDF]
  52. 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] [PDF]

Technical report

  1. 鄭欣雅，魏志潾，林卉婷，謝祥志，何文華 (2019) 深海著陸器的發展與展望。 海洋及水下科技季刊 29(4): 20-26 [link] [PDF]
  2. 梁卓景，湯淨 (2019) 臺灣南部海洋垃圾初探。海洋及水下科技季刊 29(4): 37-40 [link] [PDF]
  3. Levin, L.A., Wei, C.-L., Dunn, D.C., Amon, D., Ashford, O., Cheung, W., Colaço, A., Escobar, E., Guilloux, B., Harden-Davies, H., Drazen, J.C., Gjerde, K., Ismail, K., Jones, D., Johnson, D., Le, J., Lejzerowicz, F., Satoshi Mitarai, Morato, T., Mulsow, S., Snelgrove, P., Sweetman, A.K., Yasuhara, M. (2019). Climate Change Considerations are Fundamental to Sustainable Management of Deep-Seabed Mining (Policy brief). Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI). [PDF]
  4. Cheung, W., Levin, L. (2019) Chapter 8 Ecosystem consideration, in: Levin, L., Baker, M., Thompson, A. (Eds.), Deep-Ocean Climate Change Impacts on Habitat, Fish and Fisheries, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 638, Rome, FAO, p. 186. [PDF] (name removed from author list due to political reason)
  5. Snelgrove et al. (2017) Chapter 34. Global Patterns in Marine Biodiversity, in: United Nations (Ed.), The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment: World Ocean Assessment I. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York. [Link] [PDF] (name removed from author list due to political reason)

Popular science

  • Wei, C.-L., (2018) Deep-sea ecosystem functions linked to biodiversity over the past 20,000 years. Lanscape 4. [PDF]

Thesis

  • 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]

Conference 

  • Rowe, G. T.*, Wei, C.-L., Al-Ansi, M., Soliman, I.A.-M.Y., Soliman, Y., 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 2015:2
  • 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.

Student thesis

  • Peng, Y.-L. (2019) Community structure of cephalopods on the continental shelf and upper slope of Taiwan and life-traits of two loligos. M. S. Thesis, National Taiwan University [Link]
  • Chen, H.-C. (2018) Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Deep-sea Polychaetes in the Gaoping Submarine Canyon (SW Taiwan Margin). M. S. Thesis, National Taiwan University [Link]
  • Chen, G.-M. (2016) Environmental controlls on macrofaunal community in the Gaoping Submarine Canyon off the SW Taiwan. M. S. Thesis, National Taiwan University, 119 pp [Link]
  • Liao, C. (2016) Community structure of demersal fishes from continental shelf to lower continental slope around Taiwan. M. S. Thesis, National Taiwan University, 148 pp [Link]