From the end of July to mid-August 2026, Dr. Li Yuen from the Tropical Ecology and Entomology (TEE) Lab, Asian School of the Environment (ASE), College of Science (CoS), NTU embarked on fieldwork in the tropical peat swamp forests of Brunei Darussalam. The work forms part of ongoing research to understand how dead wood decomposes in peat swamp forests and how this process may respond to historical drainage disturbance. Fallen trees at Badas T1P3 (photo: Li Yuen, 2026) Dead wo

We are proud to see TEE Lab's Dr Ong Xin Rui featured in Singapore's largest Chinese-language newspaper, 联合早报 Lianhe Zaobao! Lianhe Zaobao article. Published on 4 September 2026. In this recent 街访街坊 (Street Interview with Locals), Xin Rui reminisced about how she first ventured into the world of dung beetles after losing a game of rock-paper-scissors as an undergraduate. She also shared about our recent study "Using Metabarcoding Techniques to Map Multiple Dung Beetle-Vertebr

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