Spatial Ecology & Conservation

Understanding how changes to the landscape affects the distribution and habitat utilisation of species and ecosystem processes.

We aim to study how conservation interventions can influence these outcomes

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Related publications

2025

• Tan ZD, Ramdzan KNM, Denoun LML, Aziz MK, Ibrahim A, Jayathilake HM, Lim AJY, Verma A, Ng ZH, Teo HY, Khoo VHS, Chong KY, Zeng Y (2025) Aboveground and soil carbon in novel forest ecosystems in Singapore: A case study of abandoned plantation secondary forests. Plants People Planet 7(6): 1803–1812

2022

• Pang SEH, Zeng Y, De Alban JD, Webb EL (2022) Occurrence-habitat mismatching and niche truncation when modelling distributions affected by anthropogenic range contractions. Diversity and Distributions 28: 1327–1343

2021

• Low BW, Zeng Y, Tan HH, Yeo DCJ (2021) Predictor complexity and feature selection affect Maxent model transferability: Evidence from global freshwater invasive species. Diversity and Distributions 27: 497–511

• Jain A, Zeng Y, Webb EL (2021) Critical dependence of butterflies on a non-native host plant in the urban tropics. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 655012

2016

• Zeng Y, Low BW, Yeo DCJ (2016) Novel methods to select environmental variables in MaxEnt: A case study using invasive crayfish. Ecological Modelling 341: 5–13