DEPT OF ECOLOGY & BIODIVERSITY



Researcher : Corlett RT

Project Title:Checklist of the vascular plant flora of Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Corlett RT
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:09/1992


Project Title:Conservation ranking of Hong Kong habitats
Investigator(s):Corlett RT
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:01/1994




Researcher : Dudgeon ADM

Project Title:The conservation of freshwaters in tropical Asia
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:01/2002


Project Title:The ecology and biodiversity of Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D, Corlett RT
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:07/2002


Project Title:Tropical stream ecology
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:01/2003


Project Title:Conservation of freshwater biodiversity in Asia
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:06/2003


Project Title:Scale-specific inter-population variation in the proteomics of Caridina shrimps in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D, Chan LL
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2004


Project Title:Life-history, ecology, and conservation of a tropical stream-dwelling salamander: the Hong Kong newt
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D, Karraker NE
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2011




Researcher : Dudgeon D

Project Title:The conservation of freshwaters in tropical Asia
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:01/2002


Project Title:The ecology and biodiversity of Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D, Corlett RT
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:07/2002


Project Title:Tropical stream ecology
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:01/2003


Project Title:Conservation of freshwater biodiversity in Asia
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:06/2003


Project Title:Scale-specific inter-population variation in the proteomics of Caridina shrimps in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D, Chan LL
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2004


Project Title:Life-history, ecology, and conservation of a tropical stream-dwelling salamander: the Hong Kong newt
Investigator(s):Dudgeon D, Karraker NE
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2011




Researcher : Gu J

Project Title:Super genetic engineered bacterium and detoxification enzymes for bioremidiation
Investigator(s):Gu J
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Projects)
Start Date:02/2004


Project Title:Uncovering proteins associated with toxin biosynthesis in dinoflagellates by proteomic approaches
Investigator(s):Gu J, Chan LL
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2007
Completion Date:09/2010


Project Title:Biological Methanogenesis of Alkanes: Thermodynamics and Microbial Ecology
Investigator(s):Gu J
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Travel Grants for NSFC/RGC JRS
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:3rd International Symposium on Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oil Systems Novel Anaerobic Ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) Bacteria Detected in High Temperature Petroleum Reservoirs of China
Investigator(s):Gu J
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011
Completion Date:06/2011




Researcher : Gu JD

Project Title:Super genetic engineered bacterium and detoxification enzymes for bioremidiation
Investigator(s):Gu J
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Projects)
Start Date:02/2004


Project Title:Uncovering proteins associated with toxin biosynthesis in dinoflagellates by proteomic approaches
Investigator(s):Gu J, Chan LL
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2007
Completion Date:09/2010


Project Title:Biological Methanogenesis of Alkanes: Thermodynamics and Microbial Ecology
Investigator(s):Gu J
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Travel Grants for NSFC/RGC JRS
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:3rd International Symposium on Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oil Systems Novel Anaerobic Ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) Bacteria Detected in High Temperature Petroleum Reservoirs of China
Investigator(s):Gu J
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011
Completion Date:06/2011




Researcher : Leung KMY

Project Title:Ecology, physiology and toxicology of Stomatopoda in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Leung KMY
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:09/2002


Project Title:Aquatic ecological risk assessment: comparison of tropical and temperate species sensitivity to chemicals
Investigator(s):Leung KMY
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:09/2002


Project Title:Ecotoxicity of binary mixtures of antifouling biocides and copper to selected tropical marine organisms: Implications for derivation of environmentally realistic water quality criteria
Investigator(s):Leung KMY
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2007
Completion Date:10/2010


Project Title:Time-series and spatial statistical studies on marine water quality monitoring data in Hong Kong: Implications of the effectiveness of environmental policy and management, and definition of water pollution control zones
Investigator(s):Leung KMY, Li WK
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2010
Completion Date:06/2011


Project Title:The 2011 EnviroTox Conference 1. The challenges in search of the “Holy Grail” for protecting aquatic ecosystems from chemical pollutants [Oral Presentation] 2. Temperature-dependent toxicities of nano-zinc oxides on three marine organisms [Oral Presentation] 3. Can carbon nanotubes act as a carrier vehicle to enhance uptake and toxicity of other xenobiotics in fish? [Oral Presentation] 4. Temperature-dependent physiological responses of the marine medaka Oryzias melastigma: Implication on pollutant responses at thermal extremes [Poster Presentation]
Investigator(s):Leung KMY
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2011
Completion Date:04/2011




Researcher : Morton BS

Project Title:The impact of ghost fishing on Hong Kong's artificial reef communities
Investigator(s):Morton BS
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Environment and Conservation Fund
Start Date:03/2001




Researcher : Ngan A

List of Research Outputs

Santini G., Ngan A. and Williams G.A., Plasticity in the temporal organization of foraging in the limpet Cellana grata, Marine Biology. 2011, 158: 1377-1386.


Researcher : Pointing SB

Project Title:Development of an on-line platform for problem-based learning in the interdisciplinary science subject ‘Origins of Life and Astrobiology’
Investigator(s):Pointing SB, Kwok S
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:Run Run Shaw Research and Teaching Endowment Fund - Teaching Grants
Start Date:06/2007


Project Title:Metagenomic and proteomic analysis of microbial colonization, productivity and adaptation to moisture stress in Chinas deserts'
Investigator(s):Pointing SB
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2008


Project Title:Microbial ecology of lithic communities in Antarctica's Dry Valleys
Investigator(s):Pointing SB
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2009
Completion Date:03/2011


Project Title:Metabolically active microbial community in semi-arid, arid and hyper-arid soils in China's Taklimakan Desert
Investigator(s):Pointing SB
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:02/2010


Project Title:Microbial diversity, activity and phylogeography at the cold-arid limit for life in Antarcticas Dry Valleys
Investigator(s):Pointing SB
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2010


Project Title:8th International Congress on Extremophiles (Extremophiles 2010) Comparative ecology of lithic microbial communities from the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica and other deserts
Investigator(s):Pointing SB
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2010
Completion Date:09/2010


Project Title:Global patterns in climate-driven microbial community assembly
Investigator(s):Pointing SB
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2011




Researcher : Sadovy YJ

Project Title:6th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference The Society for the Conservation of Reef Fish Aggregation (SCFRA) Perplexing Problems of Sexual Patterns in the Genus Paralabrax
Investigator(s):Sadovy YJ
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2001


Project Title:Molecular population structure of three commercially important groupers in the Indo-Pacific
Investigator(s):Sadovy YJ
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2009


Project Title:Population genetic structure of an exploited marine aquarium fish, the mandarinfish, Synchiropus splendidus revealed using microsatellite markers
Investigator(s):Sadovy YJ, Ng WC
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:12/2009
Completion Date:11/2011




Researcher : Saunders RMK

Project Title:Homeotic mutation and floral evolution in the Dasymaschalon-Desmos-Friesodielsia clade (Annonaceae) of basal angiosperms
Investigator(s):Saunders RMK
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2009
Completion Date:03/2011


Project Title:Molecular phylogenetics of Polyathia (Annonaceae): identifying clades and morphological synapomorphies in a large polyphyletic genus
Investigator(s):Saunders RMK
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2009


Project Title:Molecular phylogenetics of the Fitzalania-Meiogyne clade (Annonaceae): taxonomic and biogeographical implications
Investigator(s):Saunders RMK
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2010


Project Title:Out of Africa: using relaxed molecular clocks and phyloclimatic models to test alternative hypotheses for the migration of basal angiosperms into Asia during the Tertiary
Investigator(s):Saunders RMK
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:Testing hypotheses of rapid, recent evolutionary radiation in Goniothalamus (Annonaceae), a species-rich palaeotropical genus
Investigator(s):Saunders RMK, Thomas DC
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2011


List of Research Outputs

Saunders R.M.K., Member of editorial board, , Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Botany. 2011.


Researcher : Williams GA

Project Title:Trophic links between terrestrial and marine ecosystems: the source and fate of detrital materials driving intertidal and subtidal communities
Investigator(s):Williams GA, Dudgeon D, Leung KMY
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2007
Completion Date:09/2010


Project Title:Effect of metabolic rate regulation on heat shock response of the high shore snail Echinolittorina malaccana
Investigator(s):Williams GA, Ng WC
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:12/2009
Completion Date:05/2011


Project Title:World Congress of Malacology 2010 Responses of limpets to thermal stress in a changing world: what we know and what we need to know
Investigator(s):Williams GA
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:07/2010


Project Title:Population genetic analysis of the mangrove snail genus Littoraria: does the evolved brooding habit reduce dispersal capability?
Investigator(s):Williams GA, Ng WC
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:12/2010




Researcher : Xia X

Project Title:Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular and Evolution Mutation, GC Content, and the Length of Proteins
Investigator(s):Xia X
Department:Ecology & Biodiversity
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2000




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