I'm Charmaine Ng, a Year 1 student at ASE. From June to July 2026, I had the opportunity to join the TEE Lab and work on my project titled "Effects of Habitat Disturbance on Mammal Diversity and Community Composition in Sabah, Borneo". My project is about analysing mammal camera trap data to find out how mammal species richness, species diversity, and community composition differs across a disturbance gradient of Sabah forests. It is part of the Stability of Altered Forest Ec

Saproxylic insects, insects dependent on dying or dead wood for survival, are very important in performing various ecosystem functions and services. Saproxylic insects range from Stag Beetle larvae that feed on decaying deadwood, to social parasites that live with ants nesting in deadwood. Other than carrying out nutrient cycling as they decompose deadwood, some saproxylic insects are pollinators (e.g. flower chafers and some longhorn beetles), and some are important food sou

Hi, I’m Shannon, a Year 1 student studying Environmental Earth System Science at ASE. From June to July 2026, I had the opportunity to take part in the Summer Research programme, where I had my first foray into environmental science research. This is me with my friends at the TEE lab! My project was about investigating the composition of below-ground invertebrate communities in different plot types around Central Catchment Nature Reserve. Soil samples were extracted from diff

The Tropical Ecology and Entomology Lab (TEE Lab) got acquainted with the team from Gardens by the Bay Sustainability Office when we got invited to their BioBlitz in 2025. Following that, we moved onto partnering with them to monitor nocturnal insects within the Gardens under AMBER Project. Two systems, Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) and LepiSense, were deployed in the Gardens late 2025. The data collection was recently concluded and we were invited to share the preli

From 27 June to 2 July, Nicole (me, a PhD candidate) with Jo Lyn and Joshua, two Research Assistants from the PIE lab, travelled to XiShuangBanNa (XSBN) prefecture in the Yunnan province of China for the 2026 Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC). ATBC is an international yearly conference that focusses on tropical biology, ecosystems and conservation globally. This year, the theme was quite a mouthful: Achieving a Shared Ecological Civilization for Long-T