Research Interests

My research focuses on understanding the driving mechanisms of plankton dynamics on different timescales using regional and global biogeochemical models. I am broadly interested in the biogeochemical cycles and physical-biological interactions of marine systems, especially how they will change under climate change.

Employment

• Since 2022 Research Fellow, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Gemany
• 2016-2018 Research Assistant, Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Education

• 2018-2022 Ph.D., GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
• 2014-2015 M.Res., University of Southampton, UK
• 2010-2014 B.Sc., Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China

Teaching

• Fundamentals in Marine Biogeochemical Modelling (since 2023, co-lecturer)

Publications

Submitted or in review

Xue, T., & Hill, M., Phenological Mismatch Contributes to Anchovy Landings Collapse under El Niño and Climate Change in the Peruvian System 

Dale, K. E., Mott, A. W., Brahmstedt, E. S., Culpepper, J., Emery, K. A., Rich, W. A., Sun, X., Thellman, A., Xue, T., Hosseini, A., Miraly, H. Contextualizing extreme events and habitats as proxies for scaled ecosystem response to future stressors for aquatic systems. 

Guo, H., Koeve, W., Kriest, I., Frenger, I., Tanhua, T., Brandt, P., He, Y., Xue, T., & Oschlies, A., Variation of ventilation in the North Atlantic over the past three decades - a climate change signal. 

Xue, T., Arteaga, L., Pahlow, M., & Frenger, I. Trophic amplification of Southern Ocean plankton emerges from changing seasonality. 

Hill, M., Xue, T., Hauschildt, J., Gutierrez, M., & Kemena, T. Supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods for modelling current and future habitat of Peruvian anchovy. 

 

Published

Xue, T., Frenger, I., Hauschildt, J., & Oschlies, A. (2024). Mechanisms regulating trophic transfer in the Humboldt Upwelling System differ across time scales.  Environmental Research Letters.  19(11), 114014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad78ec

Xue, T., Terhaar, J., Prowe, A. E., Frölicher, T. L., & Oschlies, A., Frenger, I. (2024). Southern Ocean phytoplankton under climate change: a shifting balance of bottom-up and top-down control. Biogeosciences. 21 (10), 2473–2491. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-2473-2024

Graham, O. J., Al‐Haj, A., Arrington, E. C., Arsenault, E. R., Barbosa, C. C., Bice, K., ... & Xue, T. (2023). Better Together: Early Career Aquatic Scientists Forge New Connections at Eco‐DAS XV. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, 32 (3), 119-121. https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10585

Xue, T., Frenger, I., Prowe, A. E., José, Y. S., & Oschlies, A. (2022). Mixed layer depth dominates over upwelling in regulating the seasonality of ecosystem functioning in the Peruvian Upwelling System. Biogeosciences, 19(2), 455-475. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-455-2022

Xue, T., Frenger, I., Oschlies, A., Stock, C., Koeve, W., John, J., & Prowe, F. (2022). Mixed layer depth promotes trophic amplification on a seasonal scale. Geophysical Research Letters, e2022GL098720. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098720

Hill Cruz, M., Frenger, I., Getzlaff, J., Kriest, I., Xue, T., & Shin, Y.J. (2022). Understanding the drivers of fish variability in an end-to-end model of the Northern Humboldt Current System. Ecological Modelling, 472, 110097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110097

Tang, X., Lin, W., Karczmarski, L., Lin, M., Chan, S.C., Liu, M., Xue, T., Wu, Y., Zhang, P. & Li, S. (2021). Photo‐identification comparison of four Indo‐Pacific humpback dolphin populations off southeast China. Integrative Zoology, 16(4), pp.586-593. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12537

Liu, M., Lin, M., Dong, L., Xue, T., Zhang, P., Tang, X., & Li, S. (2020). Group sizes of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins in waters southwest of Hainan Island, China: Insights into rare records of large groups. Aquatic Mammals, 46(3), 259-265. https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.3.2020.259

Liu, M., Lin, M., Zhang, P., Xue, T., & Li, S. (2019). An overview of cetacean stranding around Hainan Island in the South China Sea, 1978–2016: Implications for research, conservation and management. Marine Policy, 101, 147-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.04.029