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Mark Wong @markklwong.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Excited to share a PhD opportunity in my upcoming lab at The University of Sydney! Join an ARC-funded project on the ecology of ant invasions in 2026 🐜 🇦🇺 Live in Sydney, ant around Australia 🌍 Intl + Domestic applicants welcome markwongecology.com/join #PhD #Ecology #Biodiversity Pls share, thx 🙏

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Join — Sydney Functional Ecology

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Mark Wong @markklwong.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems? Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Functional trait dissimilarity drives arboreal ant community assembly while competitive trait hierarchies shape colony performance in experimental mesocosms

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Mark Wong @markklwong.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Functional trait dissimilarity drives arboreal ant community assembly while competitive trait hierarchies shape colony performance in experimental mesocosms

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Mark Wong @markklwong.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

New paper in #BiologicalConservation: Artificial light at night has surprisingly limited effects on ant communities in a field experiment💡🐜 Research by fantastic students I had the pleasure of supervising at UWA. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Diversity and Distributions @consbiog.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

#ClimateChange can exacerbate ant invasion impacts by unleashing indoor populations into outdoor environments doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... #invasivespecies #ants

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 09/05/2025

Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience

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Mark Wong @markklwong.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

New preprint: Ant Diversity and Foraging Across the Diel Cycle is Unaltered by Experimental Exposure to Artificial Light at Night papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 09/04/2025

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

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Mark Wong @markklwong.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

New preprint: Functional traits drive the competitive assembly of mangrove ant communities and influence colony performance in competition mesocosms ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... A fun study in a unique ecosystem that never made it to my DPhil thesis but is finally(!) written up

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Caio Graco-Roza @gracoroza.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

4/ 🧩 Fig. 1: Human Pressure > Climate & Geography Our first key finding: Human pressure (as in human footprint) outweighs climate and geography, being responsible for 21.5% of species turnover and 20.6% of trait turnover. Human activity reshapes biodiversity far beyond natural gradients. 🏙️🌾🌍

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Mark Wong @markklwong.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Check out our new preprint: Human pressure homogenises #species and #traits globally

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Mark Wong @markklwong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hello friends old and new, I’m an #ecologist and #entomologist interested in #traits and #invasions and #community and #macroecology. I have an inordinate fondness for #ants, the movers and shakers of ecosystems. Looking forward to connecting! 🌤️

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