LSM3251 Ecology and Environmental Processes

Photos from the Kent Ridge practical

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Where exactly on Kent Ridge were we?

Nine groups were up on the ridge last week studying the vegetation. Here is where we all were (click to enlarge): Read More...

NASA: Ozonehole the size of North America (Sep 2007) - "about average"

NASA, 18 Oct 2007 - "Each year, the depleted region in Earth's protective ozone layer over the Antarctic, or "ozone hole," reaches its largest size during a period in September. Data from a NASA satellite are now in, and images created from the data reveal Read More...

Synchronous flowering - a current example

We mentioned synchronous flowering amongst members of the same species during the Bukit Timah practical. At that time. and even up to now, you can see evidence of flowering amongst Sea Apple trees in many places in Singapore - east, went, and south-central Read More...

Nobel Peace Prize 2007 - IPCC & Al Gore

The Nobel Peace Prize 2007. For news compilations, see Google and Yahoo! . Read More...

El Nino, local extinction of fig wasps and starving frugivores

In June 2007, Sunbear researcher Wong Siew Te was to be in town for a meeting at the Singapore Zoo. He offered to talk in NUS and I seized the opportunity and quickly set it up. It would turn out to be very impactful. During his excellent talk on "The Read More...

Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World (2001)

In "Terrestrial Ecosystems of the World" (2001), Olson et al. (2001) identified 8 biogeographic realms, 14 biomes and 867 ecoregions They defined the biogeographic unit "ecoregions" as relatively large units of land, containing a distinct assemblage of Read More...

The Big Trees at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

You got a glimpse of the big trees in Bukit Timah last week. If you were wondering where they all are, take a look at the map below from the The Big Trees blog. The cyan dots represent Shorea spp. trees bigger than 30 cm in diameter, one of the main indicators Read More...

Blog post about the Bukit Timah practical

One of your classmates, Loh Kok Sheng, posts to about last week's Bukit Timah practical . See: "Studying Ecology of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve." Read More...

Haunting footage of the Tasmanian Tiger

In the last lecture, I showed you the footage of the Tasmanian Tiger from ARKive . I didn't say anything then, andd let the film do the talking. This blog post of mine from May 2005 explains where I found it and my reactions: Following a lead from Boing Read More...

Ecology Class at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

I wanted the ecology class visit Bukit Timah Nature Reserve for three reasons - firstly, to ensure you biology majors experience the reserve before you graduate (!), secondly to introduce you to tropical rainforest ecology (it used to be a course in NUS Read More...