近年来围绕河口、海湾和岛礁等生态系统生物多样性、群落结构与功能和环境因子及其相互作用，主持国家科技基础课题、中科院先导专项课题，农业行业公益项目课题，国家重点基础研究发展计划(973)子课题，国家自然科学基金等科研项目，揭示了全球变化影响下，浮游生物的群落对典型气候事件的响应机制，溶解有机营养驱动近海浮游生物群落结构变动的关键机制；发现铝可增加海洋碳汇，在地球历史气候变化过程中发挥重要作用，提出了关于全球气候变化的创新理论“铁-铝假说”，在Limnology&Oceanography, JGR-oceans，Water Research，Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Biogeosciences，Biogeochemistry，Coral Reefs，Science of Total Environment等国际主流期刊发表学术论文150余篇,合著专著3本，参编论著9部，获9项专利授权和软件著作权。

1.1996-至今，南海海洋研究所海洋生物研究室

2.2000.2-2000.7月，美国Texas大学奥斯汀分校海洋研究所访问学者

3.2010.2-2010.7，美国路易斯安那州立大学访问学者

1.国家科技资源共享服务平台国家动物标本资源库分库建设 2024.1-2024.12， 39万元

2.南海北部海樽生活史特征对环境的响应及调控机理，国家自然科学基金，2020.1-2023.12

3.南海及其附属岛礁海洋生物多样性与生态科学考察历史资料系统整编，课题，国家科技基础项目，2017.1-2022.12

近五年代表性成果（通讯及第一作者）：

1.Dai, S., Guo, J., Liu, W., Liu, J., Ding, X., Quan, Q., & Tan, Y*. (2024). Labyrinthulomycetes thrives in organic matter-rich waters with ecological partitioning in the Pearl River Estuary. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, e02075-23.

2.Lai, Y., Tan, Y*., Ke, Z., Zhou, L., Liu, J., Zhang, H., ... & Lian, X. (2024). Size-dependent zoogeographical distribution of gelatinous thaliaceans associated with current velocity and temperature. Science of The Total Environment, 170943.

3.Linbin Zhou, Fengjie Liu, Eric P. Achterberg, Anja Engel, Peter G.C. Campbell, Claude Fortin, Liangmin Huang, Yehui Tan. 2024. Promoting effects of aluminum addition on chlorophyll biosynthesis and growth of two cultured iron-limited marine diatoms. Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.12558.

4.Ding X, Liu J, Liu W, Dai S, Ke Z, Guo J, Lai Y, Tan Y* (2023) Phytoplankton Communities Miniaturization Driven by Extreme Weather in Subtropical Estuary under Climate Changes. Water Research 245: 120588

5.Jiaxing Liu, Xiang Ding, Linbin Zhou, Weiwei Liu, Yanjiao Lai, Zhixin Ke, Yehui Tan* (2023) Dissolved organic phosphorus promotes Cyclotella growth and adaptability in eutrophic tropical estuaries. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 10.1128/aem.01637-23

6.Liu J, Zhang H, Ding X, Zhou L, Ke Z, Li J, Tan Y* (2023) Nitrogen fixation under the interaction of Kuroshio and upwelling in the northeastern South China Sea. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers: 104147

7.谭烨辉, 赖艳娇, 连喜平, 刘甲星, 柯志新, 李开枝.（2023），浮游胶质被囊动物暴发机制及海洋碳泵效，热带海洋学报42（5）: 178–193.

8.周林滨*, 黄良民, 谭烨辉*. 2023. 铁铝假说与海洋铝施肥增汇潜力展望. 热带海洋学报42(3): 1-18.

9.Linbin Zhou*, Fengjie Liu, Qingxia Liu, Claude Fortin, Yehui Tan*, Liangmin Huang, Peter G. C. Campbell. 2021. Aluminum increases net carbon fixation by marine diatoms and decreases their decomposition: Evidence for the iron–aluminum hypothesis. Limnology and Oceanography 66(7): 2712-2727.

10.Linbin Zhou; Yehui Tan*; Liangmin Huang* ; （2023,）Coral reef ecological pump for gathering and retaining nutrients and exporting carbon: a review and perspectives, Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 42(6): 1-15

11.Ding, X., Liu, J., Zhang, H., Ke, Z., Li, J., Liu, W., Tan Y*. (2022). Phytoplankton community patterns in the northeastern South China Sea: Implications of intensified Kuroshio intrusion during the 2015/16 El Niño. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2021JC017998. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017998

12.Jingjing Zhao , Huangchen Zhang , Jiaxing Liu, Zhixin Ke, Chenhui Xiang, Liming Zhang , Kaizhi Li,Yanjiao Lai, Xiang Ding, Yehui Tan*.Role of jellyfish in mesozooplankton community stability in a subtropical bay under the long-term impacts of temperature changes，Sci. Total. Environ，849 (2022) 157627（一区Top ，IF= 10.75）

13.Zhixin Ke,Ruofei Li,Danting Chen,Chunyu Zhao,Yehui Tan* Spatial and seasonal variations in the stable isotope values and trophic positions of dominant zooplankton groups in Jiaozhou Bay, China. Front. Mar. Sci. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.900372

14.Zhixin Ke, Ruofei Li, Danting Chen, Yehui Tan*. Spatial distributions of zooplankton stable isotopes and their trophic positions in a bay under serious anthropogenic influences: Daya Bay, China. Ecological Indicators 139 (2022) 108950.

15.Linbin Zhou*，Fengjie Liu，Qingxia Liu,，Claude Fortin,，Yehui Tan*，Liangmin Huang,，Peter G. C. Campbell，Aluminum increases net carbon fixation by marine diatoms and decreases their decomposition: Evidence for the iron–aluminum hypothesis，Limnol. Oceanogr. 9999, 2021, 1–16.

16.Chenhui Xiang, Zhixin Ke, Kaizhi Li,Jiaxing Liu, Linbin Zhou, Xiping Lian,Yehui Tan*, Effects of terrestrial inputs and seawater intrusion on zooplankton community structure in Daya Bay, South China Sea,Marine Pollution Bulletin,2021,167:11233

17.Weiwei Liu, George B. McManus, Xiaofeng Lin, Honghui Huang, Wenjing Zhang and Yehui Tan*, Distribution Patterns of Ciliate Diversity in the South China Sea, Frontiers in Microbiology,2021, 689688

18.Huangchen Zhang, Linbin Zhou, Kaizhi Li, Zhixin Ke and Yehui Tan*.（2021）Decreasing Biological Production and Carbon Export Due to the Barrier Layer: A Case Study in the Bay of Bengal, Frontiers in Marine science, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.710051

19.Xi Yang, Yehui Tan*, Kaizhi Li, Huangchen Zhang, Jiaxing Liu, Chenhui Xiang, Long-term changes in summer phytoplankton communities and their influencing factors in Daya Bay, China (1991–2017), Marine Pollution Bulletin 2020, 161 , 111694.

20.Jiaxing Liu, Linbin Zhou, Jiajun Li, Yuyang Lin, Zhixin Ke, Chunyu Zhao,

Huajian Liu, Xin Jiang, Yinghui He , Yehui Tan*, Effect of mesoscale eddies on diazotroph community structure and nitrogen fixation rates in the South China Sea, Regional Studies in Marine Science, 2020，35,101106.

21.Ke ZX, Chen DT, Liu JX, Tan YH*, The effects of anthropogenic nutrient inputs on stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in suspended particulate organic matter in Jiaozhou Bay, China. Continental Shelf Research, 2020，208, 104244

22.Liu Weiwei, Shin Marnkyoon, Yi Zhenzhen, Tan Yehui*, Progress in studies on the diversity and distribution of planktonic ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora) in the South China Sea, 10.1007/S42995-020-00070

23. Jiaxing Liu, Linbin Zhou, Zhixin Ke, Gang Li, Yehui Tan*.Phosphorus deficiency induced by aluminum in a marine nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera watsonii WH0003, Chemosphere, 2020, 246 (2020): 125641

1.2020-2021年度“神农”中华农业科技奖科学研究类成果三等级奖，南海近海渔业资源增养殖关键技术与应用，中华人民共和国农业部，2021，排名第3。

2.农业部水产科学院科技进步二等奖，南海近海渔业资源增殖关键技术与应用，农业部中国水产科学院，2020.12，排名第3。

3.2021年度，海洋科学与工程技术二等奖，南海近海渔业资源增殖关键技术与应用，排名第3。