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Environmental Biology, Ecology, Physiology

Research by members in this group covers a wide range of subdisciplines and from molecular and cellular through organismal to the ecosystem and evolutionary levels. Scientific emphases include biological diversity, molecular and genomic technology and evolution, bioinformatics, endangered species and conservation biology, global change science, mangrove ecology, and forest ecology.

Ammonia tolerance in tropical fish (Chew S. F.)

Biotic and abiotic stress in tropical plants (He Jie & Chia Tet Fatt)

DNA profiling of benthic communities (Shirley Lim & Chia Tet Fatt)

Ecology of crabs and molluscs (Shirley Lim)

Ecotoxicology & environmental stress in aquatic and coral reef ecosystems
(Beverly Goh)

Ecophysiology of mistletoes; global climate science (Jean Yong)

Mangrove ecology and restoration (Lee Sing Kong & Leo W.H. Tan)

Tropical forest ecology; restoration ecology (Shawn Lum)

Vertebrate ecology, Suidae phylogeny, sea turtle nesting ecology (C H Diong)

 


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