Welcome!
The Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Lab is led by Dr. David Bickford, one of the newest members of the Biodiversity Group at the Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore. The lab is multi-faceted with a variety of projects, interests, and study topics, focusing on amphibian and reptile ecology, evolution, and conservation. Goals include description and explanation of Southeast Asian biodiversity, with interests reflecting behavior, evolution, systematics, biogeography, ecology, and conservation.
Recent News
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A new year dawns...We all survived the summer break more or less intact and have dived straight back into University life. Projects based in Singapore have been progressing well and look like producing very promising results in the near future!
There were some interesting additions to the herpetofauna of Central Kalimantan documented and we added approximately 30 species to the exisiting faunal list for the region (give or take a few taxonomic uncertainties!). We also added some more information on the diet of B. kalimantanensis.
Being back in Singapore is good but we still miss the forest.... See a few of our new photos here
We have been joined by a new Post-Doc researcher in Jen Sheridan
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Summer Holidays?!
The 'summer' field season is now really upon us. Daniel and the undergraduate lab members are busy beginning their field based data collections in and around Singapore. Dr Bickford and Sam are taking the easy way out - heading to central Kalimantan (Borneo) for some follow-up 'lungless frog' work.
See you all when we get back (early August)- and more new lab members to be added come next semester!!!!
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Eating frogs to extinction?Is the harvest of wild frogs for commercial trade and consumption sustainable? What are the implications of this harvest on population survival? Read the latest article in Conservation Biology by Warkentin, Bickford, Sodhi and Bradshaw here.
Read more about the topic here |
Thanks to Mark Auliya for the above photograph |
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