2023

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• Ang SBH, Lam WN, Png GK, Tan SKB, Lee BPY-H, Khoo M, Luskin MS, Wardle DA, & Slade EM (2023). Isopod mouthpart traits respond to a tropical forest recovery gradient. Oecologia, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05494-8
• Xu X, Slade EM, Cao P, Wang Y, Zou X, Wang W, & Ruan, H. (2023). Effects of soil fauna on leaf litter decomposition and nutrient release during a two-year field experiment in a poplar plantation. Plant and Soil, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-06300-3
• Ong XR, Priyadarshana TS, Tay LS, Yim WHM, Goh A, Fung LM & Slade EM (2023). Insects—Nature’s Hidden Gems. Frontiers for Young Minds 11:1093433. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2023.1093433
• Blüthgen N, Dicks LV, Forister ML, Outhwaite CL & Slade EM (2023). Insect declines in the Anthropocene. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00478-x
• Brodie JF, Mohd-Azlan J ..., Slade EM, ..., Luskin MS (2023). Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity. Nature 620, 807-812. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06410-z
• Slade EM & Ong XR (2023). The future of tropical insect diversity: strategies to fill data and knowledge gaps. Current Opinion in Insect Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2023.101063
• Priyadarshana TS & Slade EM (2023). A meta-analysis reveals that dragonflies and damselflies can provide effective biological control of mosquitoes. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13965
• Maciel R, Braga RF, ..., Slade EM (2023). Tropical savanna conversion to exotic pastures negatively affects taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetle assemblages, but not dung removal. Insect Conservation and Diversity. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12656
• Luke SH, Roy HE, ..., Slade EM, ..., Dicks LV (2023). Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades. Insect Conservation and Diversity. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12637
• Priyadarshana TS, Lee M-B, Slade EM & Goodale E (2023). Local scale crop compositional heterogeneity suppresses the abundance of a major lepidopteran pest of cruciferous vegetables. Basic and Applied Ecology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2023.03.001

• Bicknell JE, O'Hanley JR, Armsworth PR, Slade EM, Deere NJ, Mitchell SL, Hemprich-Bennett D, Kemp V, Rossiter SJ, Lewis OT, Coomes DA, Agama AL, Reynolds G, Struebig MJ, Davies ZG (2023). Enhancing the ecological value of oil palm agriculture through set-asides. Nature Sustainability. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01049-6

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2022
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• deCastro-Arrazola I, Andrew NR, Berg MP, Curtsdotter A, Lumaret JP, Menendez R, Moretti M, Nervo B, Sheldon KS, Slade EM, Hortal J (2022). A trait-based framework for dung beetle functional ecology. Journal of Animal Ecology 00: 1-22. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13829

• Banin LF, Raine EH, Rowland LM, Chazdon RL, Smith SW, Rahman NEB, Butler A, Phillipson C, Applegate GG, Axelsson EP, Budiharta S, Chua SC, Cutler MEJ, Elliot S, Gemita E, Godoong E, Graham LLB, Hayward RM, Hector A, Ilstedt U, Jenson J, Kasinathan S, Kettle CJ, Lussetti D, Mahonan B, Maycock C, Ngo KM, O'Brien MJ, Osuri AM, Reynolds G, Sauwai Y, Scheu S, Silalahi M, Slade EM, Swinfield T, Wardle DA, Wheeler C, Yeong KL, Burslem DFRP (2022). The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests. Phil.  Trans.  R.  Soc.  B 378: 20210090. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0090

• Deere NJ, Bicknell JE, Mitchell SL, Afendy A, Baking EL, Bernard H, Chung AYC, Ewers RM, Heroin H, Joseph N, Lewis OT, Luke SH, Milne S, Fikri AH, Parrett JM, Payne M, Rossiter SJ, Vairappan CS, Vian CV, Wilkinson CL, Williamson J, Wong ABH, Slade EM, Davies ZG, Struebig MJ (2022). Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. doi: 10.1002/fee.2473

• Williamson J, Teh E, Jucker T, Brindle M, Bush E, Chung AYC, Parrett J, Lewis OT, Rossiter SJ, Slade EM (2022). Local-scale temperature gradients driven by human disturbance shape the physiological and morphological traits of dung beetle communities in a Bornean oil palm-forest mosaic. Functional Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14062

• Priyadarshana, TS (2022). Save Sri Lankan wildlife from foreign smugglers. Science, 376(6590): 255. doi: 10.1126/science.abo4994

• Yim M, Ong X R, Slade E, Chiew L Y (2023). Taxonomic Checklist of the Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of Sabah, Malaysia. Version 1.10. Asian School of the Environment. Checklist dataset. doi:

• Ascher JS, Soh ZWW, Chui SX, Soh EJY, Ho BM, Lee JXQ, Gajanur AR, Ong XR (2022). The bees of Singapore (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila): First comprehensive country checklist and conservation assessment for a Southeast Asian bee fauna. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 70: 39-64. doi: 10.26107/RBZ-2022-0004

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2021

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• Priyadarshana, TS (2021). Sri Lanka’s hasty agrochemical ban. Science, 374(6572): 1209. doi: 10.1126/science.abm9186

• Tansley MJ, Veryard R, Simonsen DF, Morford J, Chung AYC, Parrett JM, Slade EM (2021). Rivers are not complete barriers to the movement of tropical forest dung beetles. Sepilok Bulletin 30: 1-18.

• Chiew LY, Hackett TD, Brodie, JF, Teoh SW, Burslem DFRP, Reynolds G, Deere NJ, Vairappan CS, Slade EM (2021). Tropical forest dung beetle-mammal dung interaction networks remain similar across an environmental disturbance gradient. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13655

• Parrett JM, Slade EM, Knell RJ (2021). Morph-specific investment in testes mass in a trimorphic beetle, Proagoderus watanabei. Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12941

• Ong XR, Hemprich-Bennett D, Gray CL, Kemp V, Chung AYC, Slade EM (2021). Trap type affects dung beetle taxonomic and functional diversity in Bornean tropical forests. Austral Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.13124

• Hui TCY, Slade EM, Chong Ju Lian (2021). Roadkills in Northern Peninsular Malaysia. Frontiers in Environmental Science.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.637462

• Keller N, Meerveld IV, Ghazoul J, Chiew LY, Philipson CD, Godoong E, Slade EM (2021). Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration. Ecological Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13094

• Gray REJ, Rodriguez LF, Lewis OT, Chung AYC, Ovaskainen O, Slade EM (2021). Movement of forest-dependent dung beetles through riparian buffers in Bornean oil palm plantations. Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14049

• Priyadarshana TS, Lee MB, Ascher JS, Qiu L,  Goodale E (2021). Crop heterogeneity is positively associated with beneficial insect diversity in subtropical farmlands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 00, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14005x

• Drinkwater R, Williamson J, Clare EL, Chung AYC, Rossiter SJ, Slade EM (2021). Dung beetles as samplers of mammals in Malaysian Borneo - a test of high throughput metabarcoding of iDNA. PeerJ 9:e11987. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11897/fig-1 

• Manning P, Ong XR, Slade EM (2021). Dung beetles help keep ecosystems healthy. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9:583675.                               doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.583675

• Fuzessy LF, Benitez-Lopez A, Slade EM, Bufalo FS, Magro-de-Souza GC, Pereira LA, Culot L (2021). Identifying the anthropogenic drivers of declines in tropical dung beetle communities and functions. Biological Conservation, 256, p.109063 

• Milne S, Martin JGA, Reynolds G, Vairappan CS, Slade EM, Brodie J,F ..... Burslem DFRP (2021). Drivers of Bornean orangutan distribution across a multiple-use tropical landscape. Remote Sensing 13: 458. doi: 10.3390/rs13030458.
  
   

2020

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• Meijaard E, Brooks TM, Carlson KM, Slade EM, Garcia-Ulloa J, ..... Sheil D (2020). The environmental impacts of palm oil in context. Nature Plants 6: 1418-1426.

• Drinkwater R, Jucker T, Potter JHT, Swinfield T, Coomes DA, Slade EM, ..... Rossiter SJ (2020). Leech blood‐meal invertebrate‐derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats.  Molecular Ecology, doi: 10.1111/mec.15724.

• Williamson J, Slade EM, Luke SH, Swinfield T, Chung AYC, ..... Struebig MJ (2020). Riparian buffers act as microclimatic refugia in oil palm landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13784.

• Powers J, Carlo TA, Slade EM (2020). Biotropica requests permit numbers. Biotropica 52: 794.

• Ong XR, Slade EM, Lim MLM (2020). Dung beetle-megafauna trophic in Singapore's fragmented forests. Biotropica 52: 818-824.

• Luke SH, Dwi Advento A, Dow RA, Aryawan AAK, Barclay H, Eycott AE, .....Slade EM, ..... Turner EC (2020). Complexity within an oil palm monoculture: The effects of habitat variability and rainfall on adult dragonfly (Odonata) communities. Biotropica 52: 366-378.

• Luke SH, Dwi Advento A, Aryawan AAK, Adhy DN, Ashton-Butt A, Barclay H, .....Slade EM, ..... Turner EC (2020). Managing Oil Palm Plantations More Sustainably: Large-Scale Experiments Within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2: 75.

• Watling JI, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Pfeifer M, Baeten L, Banks-Leite C, Cisneros LM, .....Slade EM, ..... Fahrig L (2020). Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies. Ecology Letters 23: 674-681.

• Jucker T, Jackson TD, Zellweger F, Swinfield T, Gregory N, Williamson J, Slade EM, Phillips JW, Bittencourt PR, Blonder B, Boyle MJ (2020) A research agenda for microclimate ecology in human-modified tropical forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2:92.

• Kerdraon D, Drewer J, Chung AYC, Majalap N, Slade EM, Bréchet L, Wallwork A, Castro-Trujillo B, Sayer EJ (2020) Litter inputs, but not litter diversity, maintain soil processes in degraded tropical forests—a cross-continental comparison. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2: 90.
   

2019

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• Woodham CR, Aryawan AAK, Luke SH, Manning P, Caliman J-P, Naim M, Turner EC, Slade EM (2019). Effects of Replanting and Retention of Mature Oil Palm Riparian Buffers on Ecosystem Functioning in Oil Palm Plantations. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2: 29.

• Betts MG, Wolf C, Pfeifer M, Banks-Leite C, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Ribeiro D, .....Slade EM, ..... Ewers RM (2019). Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals. Science 366(6470): 1236-1239.

• Chase JM, Liebergesell M, Sagouis A, May F, Blowes SA, Berg Å, .....Slade EM, ..... Ziv V (2019). FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments. Ecology 100(12): e02861.

• Raine EH, Mikich SB, Lewis OT, Slade EM (2019) Linking dung beetle‐mediated functions to interactions in the Atlantic Forest: Sampling design matters. Biotropica 52: 215-220.

• Gray REJ, Slade EM, Chung AYC, Lewis OT (2019) Movement of moths through riparian reserves within oil palm plantations. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2: 68.

• Slade EM, Bagchi R, Keller N, Philipson CD (2019). When Do More Species Maximize More Ecosystem Services? Trends in Plant Science 24(9): 790-793.

• Parrett JM, Mann DJ, Chung AYC, Slade EM, Knell RJ (2019). Sexual selection predicts the persistence of populations within altered environments. Ecology Letters 22(10): 1629-1637.