▶痕量金属在海洋碳、氮、磷生物地球化学循环中的作用；海洋浮游植物对全球变化的生理生态响应；海洋生物固氮
▶Role of Trace Metals in Marine Biogeochemical Cycles of Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus; Physiological and Ecological Response of Marine Phytoplankton to Global Change; Biological Nitrogen Fixation

▶Jiang R.#, Hong H.#, Wen Z., Yu X., Browning T.J., Chen Z., Shang Y., Liu X., Cao Z., Achterberg E.P., Dai M., Shi D.* 2025. Significant contribution of the unicellular cyanobacterium UCYN-B to oceanic nitrogen fixation. National Science Review doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf337

▶Dai R.#, Wen Z.#, Hong H.#, Browning T.J., Hu X., Chen Z., Liu X., Dai M., Morel F.M.M.*, Shi D.* 2025. Eukaryotic phytoplankton drive a decrease in primary production in response to elevated CO2 in the tropical and subtropical ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122: e2423680122

▶Zhang F.#, Wen Z.#, Wang S., Tang W., Luo Y.-W., Kranz S.A., Hong H.*, Shi D.* 2022. Phosphate limitation intensifies negative effects of ocean acidification on globally important nitrogen fixing cyanobacterium. Nature Communications 13: 6730

▶Wen Z.#, Browning T.J.#, Cai Y., Dai R., Zhang R., Du C., Jiang R., Lin W., Liu X., Cao Z., Hong H., Dai M., Shi D.* 2022. Nutrient regulation of biological nitrogen fixation across the tropical western North Pacific. Science Advances 8: eabl7564

▶Li W., Sunda W.G., Lin W., Hong H., Shi D.* 2020. The effect of cell size on cellular Zn and Cd and Zn-Cd-CO2 co-limitation of growth rate in marine diatoms. Limnology and Oceanography 65: 2896-2911

▶Luo Y.-W.*#, Shi D.*#, Kranz S.A., Hopkinson B.M., Hong H., Shen R., Zhang F. 2019. Reduced nitrogenase efficiency dominates response of the globally important nitrogen fixer Trichodesmium to ocean acidification. Nature Communications 10: 1521

▶Hong H., Shen R., Zhang F., Wen Z., Chang S., Lin W., Kranz S.A., Luo Y.-W., Kao S.-J., Morel F.M.M., Shi D.* 2017. The complex effects of ocean acidification on the prominent N2-fixing cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. Science 356: 527-531

▶Shi D.*#, Li W.#, Hopkinson B., Hong H., Li D., Kao S.-J., Lin W. 2015. Interactive effects of light, nitrogen source and carbon dioxide on energy metabolism in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. Limnology and Oceanography 60: 1805-1822

▶Shi D.*, Kranz S.A., Kim J.-M., Morel F.M.M.* 2012. Ocean acidification slows nitrogen fixation and growth in the dominant diazotroph Trichodesmium under low-iron conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(45): 18255-18256; E3094-3100

Shi D.*, Xu Y., Hopkinson B.M., Morel F.M.M. 2010. Effect of ocean acidification on iron availability to marine phytoplankton. Science 327: 676-679