Timothy Bonebrake

Happy holidays everyone and all the best in the new year. Here’s 2025 in review from the lab - tropicalconslab.com/team/2025

Here's one just out this week! We examined the evolutionary relationship between Manis cf. mysteria and other Asian pangolins nature.com/articles/s4143…

New work led by @biotia99 now out in Heredity - Seizure samples reveal complex evolutionary dynamics among Southeast Asian pangolins nature.com/articles/s4143…

really enjoyed pulling these ideas together - “Extinction threats from anthropogenic climate change and overexploitation interactions” in a special issue on the biosphere in the Anthropocene in Phil Trans B: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/3…

new from the lab in J of Insect Cons - Multi-species aggregation and movement patterns of danaid butterflies (Nymphalidae: Danainae) in Hong Kong - link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Stable isotope analysis successfully identifies wild-caught individuals of threatened Asian freshwater turtles in illegal trade - sciencedirect.com/science/articl… - important and interesting study led by @SungYikHei

new paper in Sci of Nature today - counter to our predictions, light did not affect spider growth over time... but light did increase herbivory rates link.springer.com/article/10.100… - great work led by Chester

new paper in Evolutionary Ecology by @micheldongmo - habitat and plasticity of thermal tolerance in tropical Bicyclus butterflies - thrilled to see it out, a lot of interesting results packed into this one link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A mini review/perspective (with Eugene) on Guilbault et al. 2025 in @AnimalEcology - Quantifying drivers of biodiversity change through increasing data availability and improved analytical frameworks besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

VIDEO: Bird call contest seeks to boost conservation awareness in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society holds its first-ever bird call contest with people taking to the stage to mimic the calls of birds including the koel, brown fish owl, and Asian barred owlet. The event aims to raise awareness around conservation of bird habitats in and around the city

Insects and spiders are declining in tropical forests around the world, even in areas untouched by logging, mining, or farming. In these places, new research posits, more potent El Niños are driving the losses. e360.yale.edu/digest/el-nino…

The research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world. @Griffith_Uni theconversation.com/butterflies-be…

Stronger El Niños reduce tropical forest arthropod diversity and function - in @Nature - nature.com/articles/s4158…

New in @JAppliedEcology A multi-source remote sensing approach to identify and predict delayed succession in human-dominated tropical landscapes doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Great that our butterfly paper made to the cover, thanks butterfly! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

New in @ScientificData - Spatial occurrence records and distributions of tropical Asian butterflies nature.com/articles/s4159… collab w/ many great colleagues, led by Eugene and Emily… optimistic that the data will lead to concrete conservation actions for Asian butterflies

"Butterflies respond to habitat disturbance in tropical forests through activity shifts" 🦋 Read the paper by @ShannonXing here: buff.ly/exkbl64

Butterfly Daily Commutes: Coping with Habitat Disturbance in Tropical Forests animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/05/19/but… via @AnimalEcology

New in @AnimalEcology - Butterflies respond to habitat disturbance in tropical forests through activity shifts - happy to see this one out, wonderful work led by @ShannonXing & @wangda999 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…