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Tung-Yung Fan is affiliated with the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in Taiwan. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific focus on subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Aquatic Science.

The scientist's main research topics include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and coastal plant biology, Marine and fisheries research, Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts are Crystal J. McRae, Anderson B. Mayfield, Zong-Min Ye, Wen-Bin Huang, and Isabelle M. Côté.

Tung-Yung Fan has published papers in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include Coral Reefs, Scientific Reports, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Science of The Total Environment, and Marine Biology.

Recent selected publications include:

  • Effects of thermal conditioning on the performance of Pocillopora acuta adult coral colonies and their offspring, 2021, Coral Reefs
  • Organic ultraviolet filter mixture promotes bleaching of reef corals upon the threat of elevated seawater temperature, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Coral Records at the Northern Edge of the Western Pacific Warm Pool Reveal Multiple Drivers of Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity, and Rainfall Variability Since the End of the Little Ice Age, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Effects of feeding on the physiological performance of the stony coral Pocillopora acuta, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Environmental impact on the mechanical properties of Porites spp. corals, 2021, Coral Reefs

Best Publications

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Towards Automated Annotation of Benthic Survey Images: Variability of Human Experts and Operational Modes of Automation.

    Oscar Beijbom;Peter J. Edmunds;Chris Roelfsema;Jennifer Smith

  • Variation of initial 230Th/232Th and limits of high precision U-Th dating of shallow-water corals

    Chuan Chou Shen;Kuei Shu Li;Kerry Sieh;Danny Natawidjaja

  • Effects of diurnally oscillating pCO2 on the calcification and survival of coral recruits

    Aaron M. Dufault;Vivian R. Cumbo;Tung Yung Fan;Peter J. Edmunds

  • The physiological and molecular responses of larvae from the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis exposed to near-future increases in temperature and pCO2

    H. M. Putnam;A. B. Mayfield;T. Y. Fan;C. S. Chen;C. S. Chen

  • Persistence and Change in Community Composition of Reef Corals through Present, Past, and Future Climates

    Peter J. Edmunds;Mehdi Adjeroud;Marissa Leanne Baskett;Iliana B. Baums

  • Comparative toxicities of four benzophenone ultraviolet filters to two life stages of two coral species.

    Tangtian He;Tangtian He;Mirabelle Mei Po Tsui;Chih Jui Tan;Ka Yan Ng

  • Toxicological effects of two organic ultraviolet filters and a related commercial sunscreen product in adult corals

    Tangtian He;Tangtian He;Mirabelle Mei Po Tsui;Chih Jui Tan;Chui Ying Ma

  • Successive shifts in the microbial community of the surface mucus layer and tissues of the coral Acropora muricata under thermal stress

    Sonny T. M. Lee;Simon K. Davy;Sen-Lin Tang;Tung-Yung Fan

  • Effect of Temperature on the Settlement Choice and Photophysiology of Larvae From the Reef Coral Stylophora pistillata

    Hollie M. Putnam;Peter J. Edmunds;Tung-Yung Fan

  • Effect of a fluctuating thermal regime on adult and larval reef corals

    Hollie M. Putnam;Hollie M. Putnam;Peter J. Edmunds;Tung-Yung Fan

  • Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical increase

    NN Price;S Muko;L Legendre;R Steneck

  • Physiological acclimation to elevated temperature in a reef-building coral from an upwelling environment

    A. B. Mayfield;T.-Y. Fan;C.-S. Chen;C.-S. Chen

  • Nucleotide sequences of ribosomal internal transcribed spacers and their utility in distinguishing closely related Perinereis polychaets (Annelida; Polychaeta; Nereididae).

    Chaolun Allen Chen;Chang-Po Chen;Tung-Yung Fan;Jr-Kai Yu

  • Assessing the impacts of experimentally elevated temperature on the biological composition and molecular chaperone gene expression of a reef coral.

    Anderson B. Mayfield;Li-Hsueh Wang;Pei-Ciao Tang;Tung-Yung Fan

  • The effects of a variable temperature regime on the physiology of the reef-building coral Seriatopora hystrix: results from a laboratory-based reciprocal transplant

    Anderson B. Mayfield;Pei-Hsun Chan;Hollie M. Putnam;Chii-Shiarng Chen

  • Diel patterns of larval release by five brooding scleractinian corals

    Tung-Yung Fan;Ke-Han Lin;Fu-Wen Kuo;Keryea Soong

  • Effects of exposure duration on the response of Pocillopora damicornis larvae to elevated temperature and high pCO2

    Vivian Cumbo;T.Y. Fan;P.J. Edmunds

  • Oxygenated Cembranoids from the Cultured and Wild-Type Soft Corals Sinularia flexibilis

    Jui-Hsin Su;Yu-Fang Lin;Yi Lu;Hsiao-Chien Yeh

  • Effects of temperature on the respiration of brooded larvae from tropical reef corals

    Peter J. Edmunds;Vivian Cumbo;Tung Yung Fan

  • Eunicellin-based diterpenoids from the cultured soft coral Klyxum simplex

    Bo Wei Chen;Yang Chang Wu;Michael Y. Chiang;Jui Hsin Su

  • Reproductive ecology of the scleractinian coral Echinopora lamellosa in northern and southern Taiwan

    T.-Y. Fan;C.-F. Dai

  • Lunar Periodicity of Larval Release by Pocilloporid Corals in Southern Taiwan

    Unknown

  • Recurrent Disturbances and the Degradation of Hard Coral Communities in Taiwan

    Chao-Yang Kuo;Chao-Yang Kuo;Yeong Shyan Yuen;Yeong Shyan Yuen;Pei-Jie Meng;Ping-Ho Ho

  • Dynamics of a coral reef community after mass mortality of branching Acropora corals and an outbreak of anemones

    Konstantin S. Tkachenko;Bing-Je Wu;Lee-Shing Fang;Tung-Yung Fan

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Edmunds
Peter J. Edmunds California State University, Northridge
Tsong-Long Hwang
Tsong-Long Hwang Chang Gung University of Science and Technology
Jyh-Horng Sheu
Jyh-Horng Sheu National Sun Yat-sen University
Chang-Feng Dai
Chang-Feng Dai National Taiwan University
Ruth D. Gates
Ruth D. Gates University of Hawaii at Manoa
Hollie M. Putnam
Hollie M. Putnam University of Rhode Island
Chaolun Allen Chen
Chaolun Allen Chen Academia Sinica
Hsing-Juh Lin
Hsing-Juh Lin National Chung Hsing University
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Jason T.C. Tzen
Jason T.C. Tzen National Chung Hsing University

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