Chiew Li Yuen

I am a postdoc with the TEE Lab and the South East Asian Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP) based in Sabah, Malaysia. I am co-ordinating research on riparian reserves in oil palm plantations and their benefits for biodiversity versus potential for spreading pests and diseases such as rhinoceros beetles and Ganoderma fungus.

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I recently completed my PhD at the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. My PhD research focused on how dung beetle–mammal interaction networks change across a land-use gradient in Sabah. In addition, I investigated dung beetle diet preferences based on chemical cues, and the consequences of biodiversity and land-use change for ecosystem processes and functionality such as dung removal, herbivore predation, seed predation, and bioturbation. My favourite tea is Sabah Tea.