
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Wong MKL & Didham RK. 2024. Global meta-analysis reveals overall higher nocturnal than diurnal activity in insect communities. Nature Communications, 15, 3236. PDF
Wong MKL, Economo EP & Guénard B. 2023. The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants. Current Biology, 33, 566-571. PDF
Wong MKL, Lee RH, Leong CM, Lewis OT & Guénard B. 2022. Trait-mediated competition drives an ant invasion and alters functional diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, 20220504. PDF
Schultheiss P, Nooten SS, Wang R, Wong MKL, Brassard F & Guénard B. 2022. The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2201550119. PDF
Wong MKL, Guénard B & Lewis OT. 2019. Trait-based ecology of terrestrial arthropods. Biological Reviews, 94, 999-1022. PDF
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Middendorp A, Poey B, Mawhirt C, Walker D, Mochizuki Y & Wong MKL. 2025. Ant diversity and foraging across the diel cycle is unaltered by experimental exposure to artificial light at night. Biological Conservation, 311, 111439. PDF
Tsang TPN, Wong MKL, Cadotte MW, Economo EP & Guénard B. 2025. Climate change can exacerbate ant invasion impacts by unleashing indoor populations into outdoor environments. Diversity and Distributions, 31, e70041. PDF
Zheng K, Wong MKL, Tsang TPN & Leong CM. 2025. Bridging Citizen Science and Expert Surveys in urban biodiversity monitoring: Insights from insect diversity in Macao. Biodiversity Data Journal, 13, e153402. PDF
Wong MKL. 2025. Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity. Biology Letters, 21, 20240622. PDF
Wong MKL. 2024. Misrepresentation of invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms. Conservation Biology. PDF
Wong MKL & Didham RK. 2024. A global dataset of diel activity patterns in insect communities. Scientific Data, 11, 558. PDF
Wong MKL & Didham RK. 2024. Global meta-analysis reveals overall higher nocturnal than diurnal activity in insect communities. Nature Communications, 15, 3236. PDF
Wong MKL & McRae JM. 2024. Leptanilla voldemort sp. nov. a gracile new species of the hypogaeic ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Pilbara, with a key to Australian Leptanilla. ZooKeys, 1197, 171-182. PDF
Lee RH, Kwong IHY, Tsang TPN, Wong MKL & Guénard B. 2023. Remotely sensed environmental data as ecological proxies for ground-dwelling ant diversity along a subtropical forest succession gradient. Journal of Ecology, 111, 1428-1442. PDF
Wong MKL, Economo EP & Guénard B. 2023. The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants. Current Biology, 33, 566-571. PDF
McFadden IR & 32 co-authors incl. Wong MKL. 2023. Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Ecology Letters, 26, 203-218. PDF
Schultheiss P, Nooten SS, Wang R, Wong MKL, Brassard F & Guénard B. 2022. The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2201550119. PDF
Wang WY, Soh EJY, Yong GWJ, Wong MKL, Guènard B, Economo EP & Yamane S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology, 15, 015006. PDF
Wong MKL, Lee RH, Leong CM, Lewis OT & Guénard B. 2022. Trait-mediated competition drives an ant invasion and alters functional diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, 20220504. PDF
Wong MKL & Carmona CP. 2021. Including intraspecific trait variability to avoid distortion of functional diversity and ecological inference: lessons from natural assemblages. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 946-957. PDF
Wong MKL*, Tsang TPN*, Lewis OT & Guénard B. 2021. Trait-similarity and trait-hierarchy jointly determine fine-scale spatial associations of resident and invasive ant species. Ecography, 44, 589-601. PDF *Joint first authors
Graham EB & 46 co-authors incl. Wong MKL. 2021. Toward a generalized framework of disturbance ecology through crowdsourced science. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 588940. PDF
Wong MKL, Guénard B & Lewis OT. 2020. The cryptic impacts of invasion: functional homogenization of tropical ant communities by invasive fire ants. Oikos, 129, 585-597. PDF
Wong MKL, Guénard B & Lewis OT. 2019. Trait-based ecology of terrestrial arthropods. Biological Reviews, 94, 999-1022. PDF
Wong MKL, Woodman JD & Rowell DM. 2017. Short-range phenotypic divergence among genetically distinct populations of an Australian funnel-web spider. Ecology and Evolution, 7, 5094-5102. PDF
Wong MKL & Guénard B. 2017. Subterranean ants: summary and perspectives on field sampling methods, with notes on diversity and ecology (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News, 25, 1-16. PDF
Wong MKL & Yong GWJ. 2017. Notes on the habitat and biology of the rare ant genus Tyrannomyrmex (Fernández, 2003). Asian Myrmecology, 9, e009007, 1-4. PDF
Yong GWJ, Wong MKL & Soh EJY. 2017. Surprising offshore diversity: A preliminary checklist for the ant genera of Pulau Ubin island from rapid opportunistic sampling (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Nature in Singapore, 10, 55-60. PDF
Wong MKL & Yong GWJ. 2017. Velvet worm (Onychophora) on Pulau Ubin. Singapore Biodiversity Records, 2017, 125-126
Wong MKL & Guénard B. 2016. First confirmed record of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Malay Peninsula: description of a new species and a key to Myrmecina species from Sundaland. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 50, 129-140. PDF
Wong MKL & Guénard B. 2016. Aenictus seletarius, a new species of hypogaeic army ant from Singapore, with an updated key to the Aenictus minutulus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from Southeast Asia. Annales Zoologici, 66, 35-42. PDF
Wong MKL, Woodman JD & Rowell DM. 2016. Temporal variation in venom yield of the Australian funnel-web spider Atrax sutherlandi (Hexathelidae: Atracinae). Arachnology, 17, 7-9. PDF
Wong MKL & Guénard B. 2016. Leptanilla hypodracos, a new species of the cryptic ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Singapore, with new distribution data and an updated key to Oriental Leptanilla species. ZooKeys, 551, 129-144. PDF