This project aims to quantify the growth and grazing mortality of marine pico- and nano-plankton as well as the growth rate of microzooplankton. We further aim to understand how those trophic interactions influence biogeochemical cycling under different hydrographic regimes in northwestern Pacific, including the Kuroshio east of Taiwan, South China Sea, and tropical western Pacific Ocean.

This project to to explore how trophic interactions among animals would influence the effects of animal diversity on their ecosystem functioning, e.g., prey consumption. 

This research topic investigates the diversity, composition, and size distribution of bacterioplankton, phytoplankton, and zooplankton in the northwestern Pacific.