I. Long-term monitoring of bloom dynamics and marine ecosystemsUnderstand how plankton bloom dynamics and marine ecosystems change with environmental alterations
Kang and Lee 2023. Coastal warming heightens direct impacts of seawater temperature on nutrients near aquaculture farms in Korea, Science of The Total Environment, 164643
Kang et al., 2021. Water quality improvement shifts the dominant phytoplankton group from cryptophytes to diatoms in a costal ecosystem, Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 (710891)
Kang et al., 2020. Year-to-year variation in phytoplankton biomass in an anthropogenically polluted and complex estuary: a novel paradigm for river discharge influence, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 161 (111756)
Kang et al., 2019. Temperature-dependent bifurcated seasonal shift of phytoplankton community composition in the coastal waters off southwestern Korea, Ocean Science Journal, 54, 467-486
II. Roles of nitrogen in plankton ecology and microbial interactionsUnderstand how anthropogenically induced nitrogen and reduced forms of nitrogen shape the plankton bloom dynamics and microbial interactions
Kang and Gobler, 2023. Nitrogen liberated via allelopathy can promote harmful algal blooms, Harmful Algae, 129 (102490)
Kang and Kang, 2022. Reduced forms of nitrogen control the spatial distribution of phytoplankton communities: the functional winner, dinoflagellates in an anthropogenically polluted estuary, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 177 (113528)
Kang et al., 2021. Transcriptomic response of four pelagophytes to nutrient and light stress, Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 (636699)
III. Microbial food web dynamicsUnderstand microbial food web dynamics and the fate and transport of plankton-induced organic matter in marine ecosystems
Kang and Kang, 2023. Coupling and decoupling of marine stramenopiles and cyanobacteria in eutrophic coastal waters of Korea, Science of The Total Environment, 893 (164927)
Kang et al., 2022. Co-occurrence of Bacillariophyceae-based- and Cryptophyceae-based planktonic food webs in a temperate estuarine ecosystems revealed vi eDNA, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf science, 264 (107661)
Kang and Oh, 2021. Different roles of top-down and bottom-up processes in the distribution of size-fractionated phytoplankton in Gwangyang Bay, Water 13 (12), 1682
Kang et al., 2024. Impact of temperature and stratification, modulated by warming Tsushima warm current, on the spatiotemporal distribution of picoplankton in the Northern East China Sea, JGR