Research Areas
Behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology
Research Interests
Eunice’s research uncovers how animals use colour, pattern, and motion to navigate risk, communicate, and survive in rapidly changing environments. Her work integrates behavioural experiments, visual modelling, and comparative analyses to reveal how animals exploit sensory biases, and links arthropod behaviour to environmental change. Building on this foundation, she is now combining ecological genomics, environmental monitoring, and motion-based signalling to predict when and how sensory systems—and the defences that rely on them—will succeed or fail under accelerating global change.
Selected Publications
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Jamie, G. A., Dalziell, A. H., Welbergen, J. A., Tan, E. J., Maguire, C., & Melamed, E. (2025). The past and future of mimicry research. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02775-8
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Lim, D. S. E., Pang, S. E. H., Koay, T. M., Soh, Z. W. W., Ascher, J. S., & Tan, E. J. (2024). Community science enhances modelled bee distributions in a tropical Asian city. Biotropica, 56(2), e13298. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13298
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Tan, M., Zhang, S., Stevens, M., Li, D., & Tan, E. J. (2024). Antipredator defences in motion: animals reduce predation risks by concealing or misleading motion signals. Biological Reviews, 99(3), 778-796. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13044
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Lim, Y. Z., Poh, Y. H., Lee, K. C., Pointing, S. B., Wainwright, B. J., & Tan, E. J. (2023). Influence of native and exotic plant diet on the gut microbiome of the Gray’s Malayan stick insect, Lonchodes brevipes [Original Research]. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1199187. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1199187
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Tan, E. J., Wilts, B. D., Tan, B. T. K., & Monteiro, A. (2020). What’s in a band? The function of the color and banding pattern of the Banded Swallowtail. Ecology and Evolution, 10(4), 2021-2029. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6034