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Staff Publications

WHITEHOUSE, M., I. AGNARSSON, T. MIYASHITA, D. SMITH, K. CANGIALOSI, T. MASUMOTO, D. LI, & Y. HENAUT

Argyrodes: phylogeny, sociality and interspecific interactions – a report on the Argyrodes symposium, Badplaas 2001

Journal of Arachnology, 30: 238-245.

WERNER, Y.L. AND CHOU, L.M.

Observations on the ecology of the arrhythmic equatorial gecko Cnemaspis kendalli in Singapore (Sauria: Gekkonidae)

The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 50 (1) : 185-196

TODD, P.A., SIDLE, R.C. AND CHOU, L.M.

Plastic corals from Singapore 2.

Coral Reefs 21: 391-392

TODD, P.A., SIDLE, R.C. AND CHOU, L.M.

Plastic corals from Singapore 1

Coral Reefs 21 : 407-408

TODD, P.A. (ED.)

Evolution and Taxonomy

Napier University, 172 pp.

TAN, H. H. & K. K. P. LIM

A new species of Ellopostoma (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Peninsular Thailand

The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 50 (2): 453-457.

SONG, D. X., J. X. ZHANG & D. LI

The checklist of spiders of Singapore (Araneae)

The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 50: 359-388.

SEAH, W.K. & D. LI

Stabilimentum variations of Argiope versicolor (Araneae: Araneidae) from Singapore

Journal of Zoology, London 258: 531-540.

NG, P. K. L., J. C. Y. LAI & C. AUNGTONYA

The box and moon crabs of Thailand, with description of a new species of Calappa (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae, Matutidae)

Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication, 23(2): 341-360.

NG, N. K. & P. K .L. NG

Orcovita mcneiceae, a new species of anchialine crab (Bachyura: Grapsidae: Varuninae) from the Loyaty Islands

Crustaceana (The Netherlands) 75(5): 663-670.

NG, N. K. & M. S. JENG

On the taxonomy of Pseudograpsus setosus (Fabricius, 1778) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsidae)

Crustaceana (The Netherlands) 75(6): 759-776.

NG, H. H. & H. H. TAN

Redescription of Acrochordonichthys ischnosoma Bleeker, 1858, a poorly-known species of akysid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Sumatra and Java

The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 50 (2): 449-452.

NAYAR S, GOH BPL AND CHOU LM.

A portable low-cost, multipurpose, surface-subsurface plankton sampler

Journal of Plankton Research 10 (24): 1097-1105.

LU, L., GOH, B.P.L. AND CHOU, L.M.

Effects of reclamation on riverine macrobenthic infauna (Sungei Punggol) in Singapore

Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Heath and Recovery 9 : 127

LIM, K. K. P. & H. H. TAN

Freshwater fish diversity in Peninsular Malaysia: a review of recent findings

In: A. Ali et al. (eds.), The Asian wetlands: bringing partnerships into good wetland practices. Penerbit University Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang [CD].

LI, D., S. H. YIP & W. K. SEAH

Rivet-like nest-building and agonistic behaviour of Thiania bhamoensis, an iridescent jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from Singapore

The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 50: 143-151.

LI, D.

The combined effects of temperature and diet on development and survival of a crab spider, Misumenops tricuspidatus (Fabricius) (Araneae: Thomisidae)

Journal of Thermal Biology 27: 83-93.

LI, D.

Hatching responses of subsocial spitting spiders to predation risk

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. 269: 2155-2161.

KOH, T. H. & D. LI

Population characteristics of a kleptoparasitic spider Argyrodes flavescens (Araneae: Theridiidae) and its impact on a host spider Nephila pilipes (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Singapore

The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 50: 153-160.

KOH, L.L., TAN, T.K., CHOU, L.M. AND GOH, N.K.C.

Antifungal properties of Singapore gorgonians: a preliminary study

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 273 : 121-130.

JACKSON , R, R., S. D. POLLARD, D. LI, & N. FIJIN

Interpopulation variation in the risk-related decisions by an araneophagic jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae), during predatory sequences with spitting spiders

Animal Cognition 5: 215-223.

GUEST, J.R., BAIRD, A.H., GOH, B.P.L. AND CHOU, L.M.

Multi-specific, synchronous coral spawning in Singapore

Coral Reefs 21 : 422-423.

CHOU, L.M.

In Cheung, C.P.S., Alino, P.M., Uychiaoco, A.J., Arceo, H. (compilers)

Marine Protected Areas in Southeast Asia. ASEAN Regional Center for Biodiversity. pp 80-85.

CHOU, L.M., VO, S.T., PHILREEFS, YEEMIN, T., CABANBAN, A., SUHARSONO AND KEESNA, I.

Status of Southeast Asia coral reefs

In Wilkinson C (Editor). Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2002. Australian Institute of Marine Science. pp 123-152.

CHOU, L. M. & M. YOKEMOTO

Asia’s marine environment hangs in the balance

In Takehisa A & Shun’ichi (Editors). The State of the Environment in Asia 2002/2003. Springer-Verlag, Japan. pp 69-86.

BICKFORD, D.

Male Parenting of New Guinea Froglets

Nature, 418: 601-602.

YEO, D. C. J. AND P. K. L. NG

Recognition of two subfamilies in the Potamidae Ortmann, 1896 (Brachyura, Potamidae), with a note on the genus Potamon Savigny

Crustaceana, 76(10): 1219-1235.

TODD, P.A.

Populations and Communities

Napier University, 112 pp.

TODD, P.A.

Behavioural Ecology

Napier University , 208 pp.

TEO, D.H.L., H.T.W. TAN, R.T. CORLETT, C.M. WONG AND S.K.Y. LUM.

Continental rain forest fragments in Singapore resist invasion by exotic plants

Journal of Biogeography 30: 305-310.

TAN, H.T.W. AND K.S. CHUA.

Growing at Your Doorstep: 35 Native Plants of Singapore

Times Publishing, Singapore. 99 pp.

SONG, D. X., J. X. ZHANG & D. LI

Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia

Raffle Bulletin of Zoology. 51: 187-196.

NG, P.K.L., NG & N.K. NG

Conleyus defodio, a new genus and new species of carcinoplacine crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gonoplacidae) from deep rubble beds in Guam

Micronesica ( Guam). 35-36: 431-439

NAYAR, S., GOH, B.P.L., CHOU, L.M. AND REDDY, S.

In situ microcosms to study the impact of heavy metals resuspended by dredging on periphyton in a tropical estuary

Aquatic Toxicology, 64 : 293-306.

NAYAR, S., GOH, B.P.L. AND CHOU, L.M.

Interference of chlorophyll a interference with liquid scintillation counting of phytoplankton productivity samples by the 14C technique?

Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 56 : 955-958.

LI, D., L. M. KOK, W. K. SEAH & M. L. M. LIM

Age-dependent stabilimentum-associated predator-avoidance behaviours in orb-weaving spiders

Behaviour. 140: 1135-1152.

LI, D. & R. R. JACKSON

Predator’s preference for egg-carrying females: a novel cost of parental care

Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 55: 129-136.

LI, D., R. R. JACKSON & L. M. LIM

Influencing of background and prey orientation on an ambushing predator’s decisions

Behaviour 140: 739-764.

LEONG, T. M. & H. H. TAN

Citations – Bufo quadriporcatus

Herpetological Review, 34 (2): 161.

KOH, T. H. & D. LI

State-dependent prey-type preferences of Argyrodes flavescens

Journal of Zoology, London. 260: 227-233.

HAJISAMAE, S. AND CHOU, L.M.

Do shallow-water habitats of an impacted coastal strait serve as nursery grounds for fish?

Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 56 : 281-290

YEO, D. C. J., D. L. RAHAYU AND P. K. L. NG

Brachyura (Crustacea) of the Anambas Expedition 2002. In: Ng, P. K. L., D. Wowor and D. C. J. Yeo (eds.)

Scientific Results of the Anambas Expedition 2002. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Singapore, Supplement 11: 79-88.

TRAN, A.D. & C.M. YANG

The aquatic bugs (Heteroptera) of the Anambas and Natuna Islands, Indonesia

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Singapore, Supplement 11: 55-59.

TODD, P.A., SIDLE, R.C. AND LEWIN-KOH, N.J.I.

An aquarium experiment for identifying the physical factors inducing morphological change in two massive scleractinian corals

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 299 (1): 97 – 113.

TODD, P.A., LADLE, R.J., LEWIN-KOH, N.J.I. AND CHOU, L.M.

Flesh or Bone? Quantifying small-scale coral morphology using with-tissue and without-tissue techniques

Marine Biology, 145 (2): 323-328.

TODD, P.A., LADLE, R.J., LEWIN-KOH, N.J.I. AND CHOU, L.M.

Genotype × environment interactions in transplanted clones of the massive corals Favia speciosa and Diploastrea heliopora

Marine Ecology Progress Series, 271: 167-182.

TODD, P.A. (ED.)

Biodiversity and Rarity

Napier University, 192 pp.

TODD, P.A. (ED.)

Humans and Wildlife

Napier University, 208 pp.

AMRITA, S. & R. MEIER

Proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus (Wurmb, 1787)) have unusually high-pitched tonal vocalisations

The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59 (2): 319–323.

ANG, W. F., A. F. S. L. LOK, C. K. YEO, B. Y. Q. NG & H. T. W. TAN

The status and distribution in Singapore of Plocoglottis javanica Blume (Orchidaceae)

Nature in Singapore, 4: 73–77.

ARIFIN, U., D. T. ISKANDAR, D. P. BICKFORD, R. M. BROWN, R. MEIER & S. KUTTY

Phylogenetic relationship within the genus Staurois (Anura, Ranidae) based on 16S rRNA sequences

Zootaxa, 2744: 39-52.

BELLE, C. C., J. Q. H. WONG, D. C. J. YEO, S. H. TAN, H. H. TAN, E. CLEWS & P. A. TODD

Ornamental trade as a pathway for Australian redclaw crayfish introduction and establishment

Aquatic Biology, 12: 69-72, 2011. Doi: 10.3354/ab00324.

BEUTEL, R. G., F. FRIEDRICH, T. HÖRNSCHEMEYER, H. POHL, F. HÜNEFELD, F. BECKMANN, R. MEIER, B. MISOF, M. F. WHITING & L. VILHEMSEN

Morphological and molecular evidence converging upon a robust phylogeny of the megadiverse Holometabola

Cladistics, 27: 341-355.

BICKFORD, D., M. R. C. POSA, L. QIE, A. CAMPOS-ARCEIZ, E. P. KUDAVIDANAGE

Science communication for biodiversity conservation

Biological Conservation, DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.016.

BOHLEN, J., V. ŠLECHTOVÁ, H. H. TAN & R. BRITZ

Phylogeny of the Southeast Asian freshwater fish genus Pangio (Cypriniformes; Cobitidae) and its use as a biogeographic model

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 61 (2011): 854-865.

BRITZ, R., M. KOTTELAT & H. H. TAN

Fangfangia spinocleithralis, a new genus and species of miniature cyprinid from Kalimantan Tengah, Borneo, Indonesia (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)

 Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (4): 327-335.

CAMPOS-ARCEIZ, A., C. TRAEHOLT, R. JAFFAR, L. SANTAMARIA & R. T. CORLETT

Asian tapirs are no elephants when it comes to seed dispersal

Biotropica in press.

CHONG, K. Y., R. T. CORLETT, D. C. J. YEO & H. T. W. TAN

Towards a global database of weed risk assessments: a test of transferability in the tropics

Biological Invasions 13: 1571-1577.

CHOO, Y., P. A. TODD & D. LI

Visitor effects on zoo orangutans in two novel, naturalistic, enclosures

Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 133: 78-86.

CHOU, L. M.

Southeast Asia’s coral reef biodiversity: Can restoration reverse the loss?

INNOVATION, 36‑39.  Singapore: World Scientific, 2011.

CONWAY, K., M. KOTTELAT & H. H. TAN

Review of the South East Asian miniature cyprinid genus Sundadanio(Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae) with descriptions of seven new species from Indonesia and Malaysia

Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (3): 251-288.

CORLETT, R. T.

Climate change in the tropics: The end of the world as we know it?

Biological Conservation, DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.11.027.

CORLETT, R. T.

Honeybees in natural ecosystems

In: Hepburn, H.R. & S.E. Radloff (eds) Honeybees of Asia. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 215-225.

CORLETT, R. T.

How to be a frugivore (in a changing world)

Acta Oecologica in press.

CORLETT, R. T.

Impacts of warming on tropical lowland rainforests

Trends in Ecology & Evolution in press.

CORLETT, R. T.

Seed dispersal in Hong Kong: past, present and possible futures

Integrative Zoology 6:97-109.

CORLETT, R. T.

Terrestrial ecosystems

In: Ng, P.K.L., R.T. Corlett & H.T.W. Tan (eds.) Singapore Biodiversity: An Encyclopedia of the Natural Environment and Sustainable Development. Editions Didier Millet, Singapore, pp. 44-51.

CORLETT, R. T.

The importance of animals in the forest

In: Wickneswari, R. & C. Cannon (eds.) Managing the future of Southeast Asia’s valuable tropical rainforests. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. in press.

CORLETT, R. T.

Trouble with the grey literature

Biotropica 43:3-5.

CORLETT, R. T.

Urban biodiversity. In: Ng, P.K.L., R.T. Corlett & H.T.W. Tan (eds.)

Singapore Biodiversity: An Encyclopedia of the Natural Environment and Sustainable Development. Editions Didier Millet, Singapore, pp. 88-95.