Timothy Bonebrake
@bonebraking
Professor @HKUniversity - Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) @hku_science - Ecologist. Conservation Biologist. Environmental Scientist. Ptarmigan.
Here’s my annual lab in review for 2024 featuring papers in BMC Biology, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, and Remote Sensing in Eco & Cons tropicalconslab.com/team/2024
Butterfly Daily Commutes: Coping with Habitat Disturbance in Tropical Forests animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/05/19/but… via @AnimalEcology
New in @JAppliedEcology A multi-source remote sensing approach to identify and predict delayed succession in human-dominated tropical landscapes doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…
Great that our butterfly paper made to the cover, thanks butterfly! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…
New in @ScientificData - Spatial occurrence records and distributions of tropical Asian butterflies nature.com/articles/s4159… collab w/ many great colleagues, led by Eugene and Emily… optimistic that the data will lead to concrete conservation actions for Asian butterflies
"Butterflies respond to habitat disturbance in tropical forests through activity shifts" 🦋 Read the paper by @ShannonXing here: buff.ly/exkbl64
New in @AnimalEcology - Butterflies respond to habitat disturbance in tropical forests through activity shifts - happy to see this one out, wonderful work led by @ShannonXing & @wangda999 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…
New paper in @NatRevBiodiv led by Michael Boyle. We review the evidence for tropical insect biodiversity change, the major drivers and ecological consequences. We also highlight research trends and future directions in tropical insect research. rdcu.be/egjby
New online! Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests bit.ly/4lfXrI3
Please find our recent review on "Understanding climate change response of plant–insect herbivore interactions from ecological traits" @BiolJLinnSoc @Lou_A_Ashton academic.oup.com/biolinnean/art…
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Very cool finding of otters close to Lantau. I'll be giving a public seminar on Hong Kong's otters next month (Feb 25) at @hku_science - do please join if you want to learn more about these fascinating animals scifac.hku.hk/events/science…
Kadoorie Farm has found that Eurasian otters have returned to Hong Kong waters after the species was thought extinct in the region since the 1960s. Genetic testing on faeces samples found in The Brothers Marine Park have been confirmed to be from Eurasian otters.…
NEW RESEARCH Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α‐ But Not β‐ and γ‐Diversity of Bees 📄 buff.ly/4fFDOoI #landuse #pollinators
Rare butterfly flies 3,000km from Japan to Hong Kong in migratory record scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
Some excitement at the end of the year here in our Hong Kong butterfly work. @yuetfungling managed to capture a tagged Parantica sita that had flown over 3000 km (in more than 120 days) from Japan. A new record for the species hku.hk/press/news_det…
