Professor @HKUniversity - Director of the School of Biological Sciences - Ecologist. Conservation Biologist. Environmental Scientist. Ptarmigan.
Joined September 2009
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23 Dec 2025
Happy holidays everyone and all the best in the new year. Here’s 2025 in review from the lab - tropicalconslab.com/team/202…
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Could the alarming decline in insect populations complicate efforts to fight climate change? Research led by @hku_science’s Professor Louise Ashton sheds light on how plants sequester carbon – and points to the need to protect vulnerable insects. 🧵
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📖On the hunt for the killers of the endangered pangolins, the book makes us confront the complexity of animal-to-human diseases, and the delayed if not denied justice for animals. Unlock 20% off with code 20CP2026 on our site. Valid through May 17.🔗shorturl.at/7poIj
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another important turtle paper by @WsVincentChan now out, this one in Wildlife Letters - Movement and space use patterns of the Beale's Eyed Turtle suggest sensitivity to environmental changes and poaching onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Hong Kong folks! The official book launch for Crime and Pangolins is next week (Sat Apr 18) at HKU. Join the fun if you fancy
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new paper by @WsVincentChan in Animal Biotelemetry: User- and budget-friendly accelerometers highlight vulnerability to poaching and weather extremes for a Critically Endangered turtle
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new paper on small mammals in Hong Kong feng shui woodlands by Sam Webster et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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We’re missing a global indicator to track insects. By analyzing thousands of butterfly populations, we highlight both promising signals and key challenges—showing why these taxa are strong candidates for building a Global Index to support conservation. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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Here's one just out this week! We examined the evolutionary relationship between Manis cf. mysteria and other Asian pangolins nature.com/articles/s41437-0…
Feb 20
We also want to highlight all of the emerging research on pangolins! Two potential new pangolin species have emerged in the past few years, and research on them is still underway.
We applaud everyone who has worked on these discoveries, and are excited to see where they lead!👏
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New work led by @biotia99 now out in Heredity - Seizure samples reveal complex evolutionary dynamics among Southeast Asian pangolins
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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:
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14 Dec 2025
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…
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17 Nov 2025
Stable isotope analysis successfully identifies wild-caught individuals of threatened Asian freshwater turtles in illegal trade - sciencedirect.com/science/ar… - important and interesting study led by @SungYikHei
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14 Oct 2025
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… - great work led by Chester
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13 Oct 2025
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…
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11 Sep 2025
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.wi…
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25 Aug 2025
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
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9 Aug 2025
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.
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The research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world. @Griffith_Uni theconversation.com/butterfl…
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