With climate change increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, El Niño events may have growing impacts on Singapore’s wildlife. CNA article "More mosquitoes, less birdsong: Increasingly extreme El Ninos may favour pests while other animals swelter" In a recent article by Channel News Asia, TEE Lab's Associate Professor Eleanor Slade spoke about the potential impacts of climate change and El Niño events on Singapore's ecosystems and insect communities. C

We are excited to have our recent study "Using Metabarcoding Techniques to Map Multiple Dung Beetle-Vertebrate iDNA Networks in a Southeast Asian Forest" being featured in The Straits Times! The Straits Times article. Published on 24 August 2026. We demonstrated how dung beetles can be used as sources of vertebrate DNA, where we detected up to 18 native vertebrate species from the forests of Singapore's Central Catchment Nature Reserve. Moving forward, we are exploring a more

In late August 2026, the TEE Lab was honoured to host Associate Professor Benoit Guénard for a very fruitful visit. Benoit is an Associate Professor in The University of Hong Kong and the founding director of the Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum. He also founded the impressive Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics (GABI) Project, which has led to multiple high-impact publications that exemplify the importance of having baseline taxonomy and natural history data to advance biodiver

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