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Shawn K. Y. LUM

 
Current Appointment Assistant Professor
 
Office NIE7-03-80
 
Telephone (65) 6790 3835
 
Fax (65) 6896 9414
 
Email shawn.lum@nie.edu.sg
   
Academic Background AB, 1985 Harvard
PhD, 1993 California (Berkeley)
 
Professional Organisations Botanical Society of America
American Society of Plant Systematists
Nature Society (Singapore)
Singapore Institute of Biology
 
       
  Courses CAB 201 Diversity and Evolution of Plants
CEM 101 Environmental Studies and Global Issues
CGE 186 Conservation and Management of Natural Habitats
GL08 Human Origins and Migrations
GL07 Environment for Sustainable Development (Co-taught with A/P K.C. Teo)
 
 
  Research Interests Plant Evolutionary Ecology
Population Genetics
Conservation Biology
 
 
  Research Grants Dynamics of tropical forest fragments
 
 
  Theses Supervised Ms Ayesha Ercelawn, Forest dynamics, MSc
Ms Siti Khadijah Rambe, Asplenium phylogeny, MSc
 
 
 

Selected Publications

   
       
 
  1. Ercelawn, A.C., J.V. LaFrankie, S.K.Y. Lum, and S.K. Lee. Short-term recruitment of trees in a forest fragment in Singapore. Tropics (Japan), Vol 8 (1/2) October 1998. Pp. 105-115.

  2. LaFrankie, J.V., A. Ercelawn, S. Lum, and S.K. Lee. 2000. Trees of Bukit Timah: A study in population ecology. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Centre for Tropical Forest Science. Permanent Plot Research Series No. 1. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution

  3. Lum, S. 1999. Tropical Rainforest. In: Briffett, C. & H.C. Ho (Eds). Proceedings of the Nature Society (Singapore) Conference: State of the Natural Environment in Singapore. National University of Singapore, April 1997, pp. 25 - 34.

  4. Lum, S. and I. Sharp. 1996. A View from the Summit: the Story of the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. Singapore: National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.

  5. Davies, S.J., S.K.Y. Lum, R. Chan, and L.K. Wang. 2001. Evolution of myrmecophytism in Western Malesian Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae). Evolution 55(8): 1542 - 1559

 
     

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