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Ahh, those sampling days timing with butterflies from dawn to afternoon, butterflies are very good at ajusting activity patterns with environments.

Light pollution is creating novel photoperiods for organisms to navigate, with consequences for circadian timing. But will these impacts be distributed evenly across the globe? 🧐 Our preprint describes a new biogeographic theory ~! doi.org/10.22541/au.17…

📰Published📰 Seasonal acclimation of photosynthetic thermal tolerances in six woody tropical species along a thermal gradient. dlvr.it/TDQRqy

Identifying thresholds for regeneration and #restoration of logged #tropical #forests. New paper in @Nature led by Rob Ewers @imperialcollege with data from @SAFE_Project including #dungbeetle data from #TEELab @ntu_ase teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/new-…

Dr Michael Boyle, Dr Adam Sharp, @Lou_A_Ashton @bonebraking @HKUSBS show reduced abundance of undescribed beetle species in logged Borneo rainforests. Unknown tropical insect biodiversity appears less resilient to human-induced environmental change. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jdIk3QW8S6F…

Very happy to share that my first PhD chapter has just been published in @Ecol_Evol @WileyGlobal shorturl.at/p7L4P In this study we investigated patterns of plant beta diversity during secondary succession in Lowland and Montane subtropical forests in Hong Kong 🌳🌿🍃

My 2nd work on ant biogeographic regions is now published in @NatureComms! nature.com/articles/s4146… We show the complex biogeographic relationships among different taxa and the value of including insect groups in global bioregionalizations! @HKUniversity @HKUSBS

More capterillar work! New paper with @Lou_A_Ashton @barba365 in @AnimalEcology. We looked at top-down and bottom-up effects from assemablge level in a seasonal rainforest, we found seasonality and whether caterpillar is a concealed feeder very important doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

And so many amazing caterpillar's life history documented in this process ! it was really fun!

Great oppertunity to work in Hong Kong and Yunnan, the field sites are amazing!

Our work is now out in @InsectDiversity! We looked at how thermal trait, trait space and niche structure of ground foraging ant assemblages respond to thermal constraints in land-use change from forests to rubber plantations. Co-first with @chimanleong

Teaching Tropical Ecology (for BSc, MSc and PhD students) on Zoom from a rather appropriate location for it, Papua New Guinea, and posting videos of my lectures weekly on my youtube channel if anybody interested: youtube.com/channel/UC8a0B…

Kelly’s undergraduate research on pitcher plants highlighted in an RTHK feature (in Cantonese) this weekend youtu.be/5MK9Km6LX8I

A really cool project and study system, and a great team

Please check out the full texts here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XXCNDMDJ…

We found butterflies are quite adaptable to different environments. Tropical butterflies bask more often under the sun and have larger thorax compared with co-occuring butterflies with wider ranges (which are known to cope well with cold).

My last thesis chapter finnally got published with the help from @ShannonXing @barba365 @bonebraking ! we used 4000+ butterfly records in southern China, asking whether tropical butterflies (don't like cold) have ways to cope with cool weather in their northern range margins

With a video

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