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