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Scientific Expedition at Sekar IMEJ Conservation Area (SICA) With A Group of Passionate Researchers
The Southeast Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP) with the Tropical Ecology & Entomology (TEE) Lab, Nanyang Technological...

Marx Yim
Oct 17, 20222 min read
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(NEW) MOE AcRF Tier 2 Grant Awarded to Asst Prof Eleanor Slade - Tropical Ecology & Entomology Lab
The Tropical Ecology & Entomology Lab is pleased to announce that Dr. Eleanor Slade has successfully been awarded the Academic Research...

Marx Yim
Sep 16, 20221 min read
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The Journey of Creating the Singapore Dung Beetles Species Checklist – Part 2
Hello! I am Zann, now a Year 4 undergraduate at ASE, back with Part 2 of The Journey of Creating the Singapore Dung Beetles Species...

Marx Yim
Sep 16, 20224 min read
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ASE Ecology Graduate Alexis Goh Wins Koh Boon Hwee Scholars Award & Honours Asst. Prof Eleanor Slade
The TEE Lab is ecstatic in congratulating ASE ecology specialisation graduate and NTU President Research Scholar (NTU PRS), Alexis Goh...

Marx Yim
Sep 2, 20221 min read
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Presenting on the importance of riparian buffers at the 2nd Asia Parks Congress
This summer Asst. Prof. Eleanor Slade presented recent work from a multi-stakeholder collaborative project on the importance of riparian...
eleanorslade
Aug 23, 20221 min read
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(NEW ANIMATION) Riparian Buffers Can Help Mitigate Biodiversity in Oil Palm Agriculture
Along with the new paper "Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity decline in oil palm agriculture" published on Frontiers in...

Marx Yim
Aug 14, 20221 min read
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Visiting TEE Lab - Hello Prof Enoka!
We were very delighted to have Prof Enoka P. Kudavidanage at the TEE Lab during her visit to NTU and were greatly inspired through her...
Xin Rui Ong
Aug 12, 20221 min read
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Examining the Dung Beetle Collection at Forest Research Centre-Sepilok, Sabah
In the early days of June, Tropical Ecology and Entomology (TEE) Lab member Marx Yim (Project Officer) travelled to Forest Research...

Marx Yim
Jul 13, 20222 min read
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Riparian Buffers Can Mitigate Biodiversity Declines in Oil Palm Plantations
The expansion of oil palm across Borneo has fragmented forest habitats and created barriers to movement for many forest animals resulting...
eleanorslade
Jul 7, 20222 min read
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A Fruitful Week at ITBC-UMS BORNEENSIS Dung Beetle Collection in Sabah
On the last week of May 2022, Tropical Ecology and Entomology (TEE) Lab members, Dr. Eleanor Slade (PI), Marx Yim (Project officer), Ong...

Marx Yim
Jul 5, 20222 min read
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Best Science PhD Thesis Awarded to Dung Beetle-Mammal Interaction Networks Study by Dr Chiew Li Yuen
Our warmest congratulations to TEE Lab's postdoc fellow, Dr. Chiew Li Yuen from the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation...

Marx Yim
Jun 29, 20221 min read
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Are riparian buffers a source of rhinoceros beetles in oil palm?
Pasukan Kumbang Badak (The rhinoceros beetle team) in action! The team started the fieldwork in January 2022 to answer the question: Are...

Marx Yim
Jun 27, 20221 min read
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Dung Beetle Traits Can be Shaped by Human-Induced Temperature Changes
Our new paper, led by Joe Williamson, and including data collected by ex-TEE Lab undergraduate Enoch Teh during his research project, has...
eleanorslade
Jun 16, 20221 min read
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Opinion: Smuggling of Sri Lanka’s wildlife by foreign nationals
Sri Lanka has some of the strongest species protection laws that prohibit the exploitation of all endemic species. However, it has been...
Tharaka
Apr 22, 20221 min read
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(GBIF-BIFA) Taxonomic Checklist of the Dung Beetles in Sabah, Malaysia
The "Taxonomic Checklist of Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Sabah, Malaysia" has been published onto the Global...

Marx Yim
Apr 13, 20221 min read
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My TEE LAB RESEARCH ATTACHMENT
Hey there! I’m Breanna and I joined the Tropical Ecology and Entomology (TEE) lab briefly during the December holidays as a research...
Xin Rui Ong
Mar 28, 20224 min read
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Rivers may form barriers to small but not large dung beetles in tropical forests
We have a new paper out in the Sepilok Bulletin – the journal of the Forestry Department in Sabah – which shows that some dung beetles...
eleanorslade
Feb 10, 20221 min read
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CNA news feature - Dung beetles on Pulau Ubin
The TEE Lab was given the amazing opportunity to share about our research on Pulau Ubin! We even saw an Onthophagus dung beetle rolling...
Xin Rui Ong
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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The Journey of Creating the Singapore Dung Beetles Species Checklist – Part 1
A species checklist is the documentation of what species are present in a geographical space in a certain timeframe, and it allows us to...

Marx Yim
Jan 26, 20222 min read
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Dung Beetle-Mammal Dung Interaction Networks are Resilient Across a Gradient of Forest Disturbance
In Dr Chiew Li Yuen’s first paper from her PhD, "Dung Beetle-Mammal Dung Interaction Networks are Resilient Across a Gradient of Forest...

Marx Yim
Jan 19, 20221 min read
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