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Ken Furuya

Ken Furuya

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
6223
World Ranking
7453
National Ranking
146

Overview

Ken Furuya is affiliated with Soka University in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on oceanography, with additional work in ecology, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main topics covered by Ken Furuya include marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, microbial community ecology and physiology, algal biology and biofuel production, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Ken Furuya's recent publications include:

  • Primary Production, an Index of Climate Change in the Ocean: Satellite-Based Estimates over Two Decades (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation (2023, Earth system science data)
  • Biogeochemical Controls of Particulate Phosphorus Distribution Across the Oligotrophic Subtropical Pacific Ocean (2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles)
  • High Productivity of Eicosapentaenoic Acid and Fucoxanthin by a Marine Diatom Chaetoceros gracilis in a Semi-Continuous Culture (2020, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology)
  • Nanomolar phosphate supply and its recycling drive net community production in the subtropical North Pacific (2021, Nature Communications)

Frequent publication venues for Ken Furuya's work include Remote Sensing, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Communications Biology, Microbiology Spectrum, and Preprints.org.

Ken Furuya has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Takuhei Shiozaki, Kazutaka Takahashi, Taketoshi Kodama, M. Sato, and Fuminori Hashihama.

Best Publications

  • Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

    Y. W. Luo;S. C. Doney;L. A. Anderson;Mar Benavides

  • Phytoplankton dynamics in the East China Sea in spring and summer as revealed by HPLC-derived pigment signatures

    Ken Furuya;Masato Hayashi;Yasushi Yabushita;Akira Ishikawa

  • Geographical distribution of red and green Noctiluca scintillans

    Paul James Harrison;Ken Furuya;Patricia M. Glibert;Jie Xu

  • Subsurface chlorophyll maximum in the tropical and subtropical western Pacific Ocean: Vertical profiles of phytoplankton biomass and its relationship with chlorophyll a and particulate organic carbon

    K. Furuya

  • Primary production, an index of climate change in the Ocean: satellite-based estimates over two decades

    Gemma Kulk;Trevor Platt;James Dingle;Thomas Jackson

  • Basin scale variability of active diazotrophs and nitrogen fixation in the North Pacific, from the tropics to the subarctic Bering Sea

    Takuhei Shiozaki;Takuhei Shiozaki;Deniz Bombar;Lasse Riemann;Fuminori Hashihama

  • The structure of the phytoplankton community in the subsurface chlorophyll maxima in the western North Pacific Ocean

    Ken Furuya;Ryuzo Marumo

  • New estimation of N2 fixation in the western and central Pacific Ocean and its marginal seas

    Takuhei Shiozaki;Ken Furuya;Taketoshi Kodama;Satoshi Kitajima

  • Latitudinal distribution of diazotrophs and their nitrogen fixation in the tropical and subtropical western North Pacific

    Satoshi Kitajima;Ken Furuya;Fuminori Hashihama;Shigenobu Takeda

  • Biogeochemical Controls of Surface Ocean Phosphate

    Adam C. Martiny;Michael W. Lomas;Weiwei Fu;Philip W. Boyd

  • Distribution of the cyanobacterium Richelia intracellularis as an epiphyte of the diatom Chaetoceros compressus in the western Pacific Ocean

    Fernando Gómez;Ken Furuya;Shigenobu Takeda

  • Macro-scale exhaustion of surface phosphate by dinitrogen fixation in the western North Pacific

    Fuminori Hashihama;Ken Furuya;Satoshi Kitajima;Shigenobu Takeda

  • Nitrification and its influence on biogeochemical cycles from the equatorial Pacific to the Arctic Ocean

    Takuhei Shiozaki;Minoru Ijichi;Kazuo Isobe;Fuminori Hashihama

  • Iron regeneration and organic iron(III)-binding ligand production during in situ zooplankton grazing experiment

    Mitsuhide Sato;Shigenobu Takeda;Ken Furuya

  • HPLC Determination of Phytoplankton Pigments Using N,N-Dimethylformamide

    Ken Furuya;Masato Hayashi;Yasushi Yabushita

  • Heterotrophic bacteria as major nitrogen fixers in the euphotic zone of the Indian Ocean

    Takuhei Shiozaki;Minoru Ijichi;Taketoshi Kodama;Taketoshi Kodama;Shigenobu Takeda

  • Large‐scale impact of the island mass effect through nitrogen fixation in the western South Pacific Ocean

    Takuhei Shiozaki;Taketoshi Kodama;Ken Furuya

  • Temporal variations in transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) associated with a diatom spring bloom in a subarctic ria in Japan

    Neelam Ramaiah;Takashi Yoshikawa;Ken Furuya

  • Nitrogen fixation and the diazotroph community in the temperate coastal region of the northwestern North Pacific

    T. Shiozaki;T. Nagata;M. Ijichi;K. Furuya

  • Ocean urea fertilization for carbon credits poses high ecological risks

    Patricia M. Glibert;Rhodora Azanza;Michele Burford;Ken Furuya

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigenobu Takeda
Shigenobu Takeda Nagasaki University
Hiroaki Saito
Hiroaki Saito University of Tokyo
Lasse Riemann
Lasse Riemann University of Copenhagen
Atsushi Tsuda
Atsushi Tsuda University of Tokyo
Emilio Marañón
Emilio Marañón Universidade de Vigo
Margaret R. Mulholland
Margaret R. Mulholland Old Dominion University
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Toshi Nagata
Toshi Nagata University of Tokyo
Ilana Berman-Frank
Ilana Berman-Frank University of Haifa
Ondřej Prášil
Ondřej Prášil Institute of Microbiology

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