PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND RECOGNITION

• Honorary Lecturer (2026 – present) School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. In recognition of extensive involvement in collaborations involving both research and teaching with QMUL.
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2024 – present) Advance HE, in recognition of commitment to teaching and learning excellence in higher education.
• Senior Research Associate (2023 – present) South East Asian Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP) Academic Council. Advising on strategy, research and training needs.
• Committee Member (2023 – present) University of Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS). Part of a committee raising funds for bursaries for conference attendance, and selecting attendees to present research.
• MSc Lead and Researcher (2021 – present) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Co-director for two MSc programs run in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London. Running a research group focusing on impacts of anthropogenic change on tropical forests.
• Senior Lecturer (2012 – 2021) Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia. Responsible for running a research group and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Coordinator for the institute for all postgraduate study.
• Visiting Fellow (2012) Laboratory of Tropical Ecology, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.
• Postdoctoral Researcher (2011 – 2012) Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK. Research on large-scale experimental impacts of fragmentation on biological communities.
• Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher (2011 – 2013) Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.
• Tutor (2006 – 2010) Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia. Teaching and research assistant.

EDUCATION

2007 – 2011 PhD (Zoology) Insect Ecology Group, University Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
2004 – 2007 MSc (Conservation Biology) Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
2000 – 2004 BSc (Conservation Biology) School of Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
2022 – 2024 PGCAP, Queen Mary Academy, Queen Mary University of London, UK

LANGUAGES

• English (fluent)
• Malay (native language)
• Bajau (native language)
• Indonesian (fluent)
• Chinese (Mandarin, basic)
• Suluk (fluent)
• Arabic (basic, written only)

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Institute for Tropical Biology & Conservation, University Malaysia Sabah (July 2012 – present)

Exploring responses of animal and plant communities to gradients of altitude and anthropogenic habitat degradation. Including investigation of vertical stratification of ant communities with logging, fragmentation and conversion to oil palm of rain forest, and of altitudinal stratification of ants and associated nutrient redistribution rates. Running my own research group, including generation of new research directions, securing funding, management of group finances and supervision of students. At RGB Kew, leading the MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation.

Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK (July 2011 – July 2012)

Postdoctoral researcher. Conducting research on canopy and leaf litter ant communities in fragmented and converted forest landscapes in Sabah, Malaysia. Research carried out in collaboration with the SAFE (Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems) Project.

Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK (May 2007 – May 2011)

PhD research investigating community structures of ants in the high canopy of tropical rainforest using a range of approaches including field collections, laboratory based manipulative experiments and developing new methods of sampling invertebrates from the canopy. Acquired expertise in SE Asian ant taxonomy. Led an expedition to climb the world’s tallest known tropical tree (89.6m) in Tawau Hills Park Sabah, Malaysia.

Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (Sept 2004 – Apr 2007)

Two and a half year MSc project investigating the ecology and conservation value of small mammal fauna in peat swamp forest. Acquired experience in building an independent research project and further skills in small mammal taxonomy.

Danum Valley Conservation Area, Yayasan Sabah (The Sabah Foundation) (Feb 2004 – May 2004)

As part of two months of industrial training for the completion of undergraduate requirements. Gained experience in designing a database for Birds of Danum Valley Conservation Area. Also helped with ongoing research of forest regeneration and restoration in the Ulu Segama Forest Reserve.

School of Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (May 2000 – Nov 2003)

Undergraduate research project assessing the small mammal fauna of the Crocker Range. Investigated small mammal distribution and diversity along altitudinal gradients of montane forest. Acquired skills in small mammal taxonomy.

FUNDING

• PhD studentship fieldwork funding (2026 – 2027) RGB Kew (Lead supervisor; £6000)
• Impacts of anthropogenic change on rainforest epiphytes due to increased treefalls (2025 – 2028) NERC TREES DLA PhD studentship (Lead supervisor; £115,000)
• Do social insect impacts on soil properties maintain tropical plant diversity in the face of anthropogenic habitat change? (2024 – 2026) Czech Science Foundation (GACR: 24-12229S) Standard Grant (External collaborator; £397,000)
• The impact of zoonotic outbreak spillover due to the hunting and eating wildlife among local communities of Sabah, Malaysia. (2023 – 2025) National Conservation Trust Fund for Natural Resources (NCTF). Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Environment Sabah, Malaysia (Team member; £50,465)
• Do entomopathogenic fungi drive arthropod diversity gradients via host negative density dependence (2021 – 2023) Czech Science Foundation (GACR) Standard Grant (External collaborator; £336,000)
• Impacts of experimental forest fragmentation and land use change on ant communities in tropical rainforest (2019 – 2021). Universiti Malaysia Sabah, UMSGReat Grant (Principal Investigator; £2600)
• Investigating the impact of climber cutting on ant community assemblages in secondary forests (2019 – 2021) Universiti Malaysia Sabah, UMSGReat Grant (Principal Investigator; £1700)
• Incorporating weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) into oil palm plantation integrated pest management to improve ongoing plantation sustainability (2019 – 2021) Universiti Malaysia Sabah SKIM DANA NIC Grant (Principal Investigator; £16,000)
• Persistence of Crematogaster-Macaranga mutualistic relationships along altitudinal gradients in Crocker Range, Sabah, Malaysia (2016 – 2018) Universiti Malaysia Sabah, UMSGReat Grant (Principal Investigator; £1700)
• Assessment of entotourism potential and promotion in Tawau Hills Park (2016 – 2018) Universiti Malaysia Sabah, UMSGReat Grant (Team member; £2500)
• The impacts of tropical forest degradation and fragmentation on ant-plant mutualisms, and consequences for plant community dynamics (2016 – 2018) Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GACR) Standard Grant (External collaborator; £370,000)
• Tropical rainforest degradation, networks of ant-plant mutualisms, and forest regeneration (2014 – 2017) Malaysian Department of Higher Education, Fundamental Research Grant (Principal Investigator; £17,000)
• Ecosystem quality and herbivore dynamics in tropical rainforests fragmented by deforestation (2014 – 2016) Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grant (Research Associate; £211,000)
• Changes in ant-mediated nutrient redistribution rate along an altitudinal gradient (2014 – 2015) Universiti Malaysia Sabah Research Grant Scheme (Principal Investigator; £1700)
• How do changes in species interaction networks affect ecosystem function when tropical forests are degraded? (2014 – 2016) Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GACR) Standard Grant (External Collaborator; £246,000)

OUTREACH AND COMMUNICATION

Presented work at international conferences in Bangkok, Thailand (2019), Cairns, Australia (2014), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (2013), Birmingham, UK (2012), Bali, Indonesia (2010), Bangalore, India (2009), Copenhagen, Denmark (2010), Zurich, Switzerland (2009). Assisted in hosting the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (William and Catherine Mountbatten-Windsor) during their 2012 Asian and Pacific tour, including a ten-minute personal tour of the rainforest canopy suspended by ropes 40 m above the ground. Acted as assessor for Canopy Access Ltd. (2010), Helped run a stand at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition in London (2007). Featured on television with the World News BBC and BBC Science/Nature News (2007) and Malaysian national television programme Galeri Perdana, RTM1 (2007). Helped organising Canopy workshop in UMS (2006) and statistics courses in Inst. of Tropical Biology and Conservation, University Malaysia Sabah (2005, 2006). Helped with IBISCA on canopy research in Queensland, Australia (2006, 2007). Helped with National Geographic documentary on ants in the canopy in Trang, Thailand (2007). Co-author of a key to the ant genera of Borneo, which is freely available online in English and Malay.

REVIEWING AND EDITING

Handling editor for the journal Asian Myrmecology (2017 – present). Reviewer for journals Biotropica, Asian Myrmecology, European Journal of Entomology, Acta Oecologia, Applied Soil Ecology and Ecological Indicators.

TEACHING

Programme co-director for MSc Biodiversity and Conservation, QMUL-Kew (2021 – present). Overseas field trip: Conservation and Habitat Restoration (2023 – present), Biodiversity Loss – Challenges and Solutions (2023 – present). Lecturing and tutoring for undergraduate modules Canopy Biology (2010 – 2021), Biogeography (2012 – 2018), Biometry (2012 – 2014), Wildlife Management (2012 – 2013), and Ecology (2018 – present) at ITBC, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Taught on Tropical Biology Association field courses in Danum Valley Field Centre, (2011, one week; 2017, ten days), University of Cambridge field course at Maliau Basin Studies Centre (2019, 14 days), Naturalis Biodiversity Centre (Netherlands) Tropical Biology MSc field course in Danau Girang field centre (2016, four days). Demonstrator for one year at School of Science and Technology for Conservation Biology course in UMS (2005). Tutor and teaching assistant on Statistics course in Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation (2005 – 2006). Demonstrator on Evolution and Behaviour practicals for undergraduate course in University of Cambridge (2008 – 2010). Supervised third year undergraduate student project in Cambridge (2010). Taught canopy access in Danum Valley, Sabah (2008); Griffith University, Australia (2008); and York University, United Kingdom (2009).

STUDENT SUPERVISION

PhD supervision: One PhD student as lead supervisor (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, NERC TREES DLA funded). One student as co-supervisor, ongoing, Biology Centre CAS, Czech Republic. One student as lead supervisor passed viva (University Malaysia Sabah).

MSc supervision: Seven MSc students at Universiti Malaysia Sabah, five as lead supervisor, all two-year pure research degrees. Six QMUL-Kew MSc student projects (six-month full-time research projects).

BSc project supervision: 29 final year undergraduate projects, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

Other: Lead supervisor for one Fulbright student, who visited Malaysia to work on seed dispersal by ants (2019).

PUBLICATIONS

Cannon, P.G., Edwards, D.P., Yusah, K.M., & Freckleton, R.P. (In prep) Spatial distance, not environmental heterogeneity, explains fine-scale patterns of ß-diversity in multiple life stages of logged tropical forest trees. Preprint DOI: 10.22541/au.168475101.11686847/v1

Koid Q-Q, De Wint F.C., Zahra S., Shahbaz M., Yusah K.M., Haelewaters D., Seelan J.S.S. and Fayle T.M.  (In review) Arthropod-entomopathogenic fungus interactions in the Anthropocene Ecology and Evolution

Koid Q.Q., De Wint F.C., Seelan J.S.S., Yusah K.M., Klimeš P., & Fayle T.M. (In press) Spatiotemporal dynamics of entomopathogenic fungal infections in lowland tropical rainforest PeerJ

Lestina D., Houadria M.Y.I., Gavin J.A., Chung A.Y.C., Yusah K.M., Rindos, M., Schlosserova K., Feldhaar H. & Fayle T.M. (2026) Exploitation of an ant-plant mutualism by a cavity-nesting wasp. PeerJ 14: e20984

Tuma J, Yusah K.M. & Fayle T.M. (2025) Unoccupied mounds of soil-feeding termites host diverse soil fauna in both primary and logged tropical forests. Soil Ecology Letters 7:250329

Ewers R.M., consortium of 135 co-authors (including Yusah K.M.), & Banks-Leite C. (2024) Ecological thresholds for adding degraded tropical rainforests to the conservation estate. Nature 631: 808–813.

Granville N.R., Barclay M.V.L., Boyle M.J.W., Chung A.Y.C., Fayle T.M., Hah H.E., Hardwick J.L., Kinneen L., Kitching R.L., Maunsell S.C., Miller J.A., Sharp A.C., Stork; N.E., Wai L., Yusah K.M & Ewers R.M. (2024) Resilience of tropical invertebrate community assembly processes to a gradient of land use intensity. Oikos 2024: e10328

Chu, Z., Cosset, C.C.P., Finlayson, C., Cannon, P.G., Freckleton, R.P., Yusah, K.M., & Edwards, D.P. (2024) Tree diversity and liana infestation predict acoustic diversity in logged tropical forests. Biological Conservation 291, 110488.

Finlayson, C., Hethcoat, M.G., Cannon, P.G., Bryant, R.G., Yusah, K.M., Edwards, D.P., & Freckleton, R.P. (2024) Monitoring lianas from space: Using Sentinel-2 imagery to observe liana removal in logged tropical forests. Forest Ecology and Management 554, 121648.

Muslim, S.A., Soo, C.L., Fayle, T.M., & Yusah, K.M. (2023). Diversity and composition of arboreal ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in relation to experimental forest fragmentation in Kalabakan, Sabah. Malayan Nature Journal 75 (4), 563-574.

Advento, A.D., Yusah, K.M., Naim, M., Caliman, J.P., & Fayle T.M. (2022) Which protein source is best for mass-rearing of Asian Weaver ants? Journal of Tropical Biology & Conservation 19, 93-107.

Advento, A.D., Yusah, K.M., Salim, H., Naim, M., Caliman, J.P., & Fayle T.M. (2022) The first record of the parasitic myrmecophilus caterpillar Liphyrabrassolis (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) inside Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) nests in oil palm plantations. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e83842.

Boyle M.J.W., Bishop T.R., Luke S.H., van Breugel M., Evans T.A., Pfeifer M., Fayle T.M., Hardwick S.R., Lane-Shaw R.I., Yusah K.M., Ashford I., Ashford O., Garnet E., Turner E.C., Wilkinson C.L., Chung A.Y. & Ewers R.E. (2021) Localised climate change defines ant communities in human-modified tropical landscapes. Functional Ecology 35: 1094-1108.

Sutton S., van der Linden C., Fayle T.M., Yusah K.M., Biun A., Chung A.Y. Banati L., Sepanggi N., Eting L. Yu F.T.Y. Foronda P., Taradas S. Ginsos J., Whitaker T. Jisimin & Parenti, J. (2021) Troides andromache Staudinger 1892: The natural history and conservation of the Kinabalu or Borneo birdwing butterfly past, present and future. Malayan Nature Journal 81st Anniversary Special Issue: 157-172

Koid Q.Q., Wong R.Y., Gabriel, G., & Yusah K.M. (2021). Ant community structure in secondary logged forest of Malua Forest Reserve, Sabah, Borneo. Journal of Tropical Biology & Conservation 18: 305-319.

Le G., Matusin M.R., Yusah K.M., Aziz, N.A.A. Bagul A.H.B.P., Nordin N.M., Dawood M.M. & Saikim F.H. (2021) Entotourism potential in Sabah, Malaysia: A Tourists’ perspective. Cogent Social Sciences 7: 1914950.

Le G., Saikim F.H., Yusah K.M., Dawood M.M., Rahman H., Mustaffa N., Nordin N.M. & Aziz N.A.A. (2021) Factors of tourists’ perspective and awareness of insects based on demographics distribution in the tropical ecosystem Serangga 26: 361-385.

Cannon P.G., O’Brien M.J., Yusah K.M., Edwards D.P. & Freckleton R.P. (2020) Limited contributions of plant pathogens to density‐dependent seedling mortality of mast fruiting Bornean trees. Ecology and Evolution 10: 13154-13164

Saikim F.H. , Le G., Dawood B.B., Yusah K.M., Ismail A., Hamdin M.S., Rahman A.A.A., Ismail N., Anas N.I., Zakaria M.Z., Nordin N.M & Hamzah Z. (2020) Tourists’ Perceptions of Insects as the Determinants of Insect Conservation through Entomological Ecotourism. Journal of Tropical Biology & Conservation 17: 79–95.

Tuma J., Fleiss S., Eggleton P., Frouz J., Klimes P., Lewis O., Yusah K.M. & Fayle T.M. (2019). Logging of rainforest and conversion to oil palm reduces bioturbator diversity but not levels of bioturbation. Applied Soil Ecology 144: 123–133.

Lim H.Y, Gardner P.C., Abram N.K., Yusah K.M. & Goossens B. (2019) Identifying habitat and understanding movement resistance for the Endangered Bornean banteng Bos javanicus lowi in Sabah, Malaysia. Oryx, 1-9

Gibb H., Sanders N.J., Dunn R.R., Arnan X., Vasconcelos H.L., Donoso D.A., Andersen A.N., Silva R.R., Bishop T.R., Gomez C., Grossman B.F., Yusah K.M., Luke S.H., Pacheco R., Pearce-Duvet J., Retana J., Tista M., Parr C.L. (2018) Habitat disturbance selects against both small and large species across varying climates Ecography 41: 1184-1193

Philip A.J., Fayle T.M. & Yusah K.M. (2018) Selectively logging old growth rain forest twice changes canopy ant species composition, while conversion to oil palm changes composition and reduces species richness and diversity. Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 15: 139–154

Yusah K.M., Foster W.A., Reynolds G. & Fayle T.M. (2018) Ant mosaics in Bornean rain forest high canopy depend on spatial scale, time of day, and sampling method. PeerJ 6:e4231

Fayle T.M., Wanji, C, Turner E.C. & Yusah K.M. (2017) Living together in novel habitats: A review of land-use change impacts on mutualistic ant-plant symbioses in tropical forests. Chapter 3, pp 52-72. In Ant-Plant Interactions: Impacts of Humans on Terrestrial Ecosystems. Ed. Oliveira, P.S. & Koptur S. Cambridge University Press.

Yusah K.M. & Foster W.A. (2016) Tree size and habitat complexity affect ant communities (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the high canopy of Bornean rain forest. Myrmecological News 23: 15-23

Fayle T.M., Eggleton P., Manica A., Yusah K.M. & Foster W.A. (2015) Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants. Ecology Letters 18: 254-262

Ewers R.M., Boyle M.J.W., Gleave R., Plowman N.S., Benedick S., Bernard H., Bishop T.R., Bakhtiar E.Y., Chey V.K., Chung A.Y.C., Davies R.G., Edwards D.P., Eggleton P., Fayle T.M., Hardwick S.R., Homathevi H., Kitching R.L., Khoo M.S., Luke S.H., March J.J., Nilus R., Pfeifer M., Rao S.V., Sharp A.C. Snaddon J.L., Stork N.E., Struebig M.J., Wearn O.R., Yusah K.M., and Turner E.C. (2015) Logging cuts the functional contribution of invertebrates in tropical rainforest. Nature Communications 6: 6836

Fayle T.M., Edwards D.P., Foster W.A., Yusah K.M. & Turner E.C. (2015) An ant-plant by-product mutualism is robust to selective logging of rain forest and conversion to oil palm plantation. Oecologia 178: 441–450

Yusah K.M. & Fayle T. M. (2014) The first record of a Milichiid fly attacking an ant of the genus Polyrhachis. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4168

Yusah K. M., Turner E.C., Yahya B.E. & Fayle T.M. (2012) An elevational gradient in litter-dwelling ant communities in Imbak Canyon, Sabah, Malaysia. Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 9(2): 192-199

Yusah K. M., Fayle T.M., Harris G. & Foster W.A. (2012) Optimising diversity assessment protocols for high canopy ants in tropical rain forest. Biotropica 44: 73-81.

Foster W.A., Snaddon J.L., Turner E.C., Fayle T.M., Cockerill T.D., Ellwood. M.D.F., Broad G.R., Chung A.Y., Eggleton P.E., Chey V.K. & Yusah K.M. (2011). Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 366: 3277-3291.

Mahyudin A., Yasuma S., Yusah K.M., Abdul Mawah S.S. & Kho J.M. (2010). Mammals of Maliau Basin Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia: A preliminary study. Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 6: 43-47

Andersen S. B., Gerritsma S., Yusah K. M., Mayntz D., Hywel-Jones N., Billen J., Boomsma J. J., & Hughes D. P. (2009). The life of a dead ant – The expression of an adaptive extended phenotype. American Naturalist 174: 424 – 433.

Fayle T. M., Ellwood M. D. F., Turner E. C., Snaddon J. L., Yusah K. M., & Foster W. A. (2008) Bird’s nest ferns: Islands of biodiversity in the rainforest canopy. Antenna 32: 34-37.

Bernard H., Yusah K. M., Yasuma S., & Kimsui, L. (2004) A survey of the non-flying small Mammals at several elevations in and around Crocker Range Park. In Maryati, M., Zulhazman, H., Tachi, T., & Nais, J. (Eds). Crocker Range Scientific Expedition 2002. Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu.

TALKS

Fayle T.M., Hendrickx B., Menath A., Frouz J., Klimes P., Yusah K.M., Eggleton P., Flynn T. & Tuma J. (2026) Soil-dwelling social insects as drivers of soil properties in anthropogenically modified tropical landscapes. Invited presentation (online), as part of the BEST Bridge Seminar (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science Theme) series at University of Swansea.

Koid Q-Q, De Wint F, Seelan JSS, Yusah KM & Fayle TM (2024) The impacts of conversion of tropical forest to oil palm plantation on arthropod-entomopathogenic fungus interactions. Oral presentation at British Ecological Society annual meeting, Liverpool.

Fayle T.M., Frouz J., Klimes P., Yusah K.M., Eggleton P., Flynn T. & Tuma J. (2024) Soil-dwelling social insects as drivers of soil properties in anthropogenically modified tropical landscapes. Oral presentation at British Ecological Society annual meeting, Liverpool.

Advento A.D., Yusah K.M., Salim H., Naim M., Caliman J-P & Fayle T.M. (2021) Abundance of Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) in oil palm plantations experiencing bagworm outbreaks IPCB meeting UMS.

Yusah K.M., Foster W.A., Reynolds G. & Fayle T.M. (2019). Ant mosaics in Bornean primary rain forest high canopy depend on spatial scale, time of day, and sampling method. World Ant Forum Bangkok and ANeT Meeting at Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Leština D., Houadria M., Gavin J.A., Chung A.Y., Yusah K.M., Rindoš, M. & Fayle T.M. (2019) Impacts of an unexpected intruder on a rainforest ant-plant mutualism occurring in a novel habitat. Joint BES/gtö Symposium – Unifying Tropical Ecology: Strengthening collaborative science. Edinburgh, UK.

Wanji, C., Fayle T.M. & Yusah K.M. (2018) Diversity and network structure of Crematogaster-Macaranga interactions in different habitats. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation conference, Kuching, Malaysia.

Fayle T.M., Lestina D., Houadria M., Redmond C., Ann J., Chung A.Y., Pius T., Gewa B., Fibich P., Klimes P, Plowman N, Segar S, Weiblen G, Yusah K.M. & Novotny N (2018) Ant patroller spillover and parasitism in ant-plant mutualisms. Presentation to US-Malaysian collaborative field team at Mahua field station, Sabah.

Lestina D. Ann J., Houadria M., Chung A.Y., Yusah K.M. & Fayle T.M. (2018) Commensalism in a novel ecosystem: Converting degraded rainforest to oil palm plantation increases densities of a stem-excavating crabronid wasp in the ant-plant Macaranga pearsonii without fitness costs for mutualistic partners. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation conference, Kuching, Malaysia.

Fayle T.M., Ann J., Edwards D., Foster W.A., Houadria M., Lestina D., Wanji C., Shitu L., Turner E.C., Yusah K.M. (2017) How does logging, fragmentation and conversion of tropical rainforest to oil palm affect ant-plant mutualisms? Invited seminar at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Yusah K.M., Ewers R.M., Klimes P., Moses J., Novotny N. & Fayle T.M. (2014) Ant-mediated nutrient redistribution rates along gradients of altitude and disturbance in Borneo and New Guinea. Conference of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Cairns, Australia.

Fayle T.M., Davies R., Edwards D., Eggleton P., Ewers R., Foster W.A., Frouz J., Grafe U., Gray C., Kitching R., Klimes K., Konopik O., Luke S.H., Maunsell S., Novotny V., Scholtz O., Segar S., Steffan-Dewenter I., Stork N., Turner E.C., Tuma J., Wan Ji C., Yusah K.M. (2014) Impacts of logging, fragmentation and conversion to oil palm on species interactions in tropical rain forests. Invited speaker at SEARRP meeting at Chichley Hall, UK.

Fayle T.M., Davies R., Eggleton P., Ewers R., Frouz J., Gray C., Klimes K., Luke S.H., Novotny V., Scholtz O., Segar S., Turner E.C., Tuma J. & Yusah K.M. (2014) How interactions between ants and termites and the ecosystem processes they mediate affected by habitat change? Science@SAFE workshop, Imperial College London, UK.

Yusah K.M., Fayle T.M., Turner E.C & Foster W.A. (2013) Temporal partitioning of ant communities in the high canopy of tropical rainforest. International Network for Ant Research in Asia (ANeT) conference, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

Fayle T.M., Edwards D.P., Klimes P., Plowman N., Turner E.C., Yusah K.M., Foster W.A. & Novotny V. (2013) How do ant-plant interactions change along gradients of altitude and habitat modification? (Plenary) International Network for Ant Research in Asia (ANeT) conference, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

Yusah K.M., Fayle T.M., Turner E.C. & Foster W.A. (2012) Ant communities of the rainforest high canopy are segregated through time. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham, UK.

Yusah K.M., Fayle T.M. & Foster W.A. (2010) Sampling and studying ants in the high canopy of a tropical rainforest. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation conference in Bali, Indonesia.

Foster W.A., Broad G.R., Chung A.Y.C., Cockerill T.D., Eggleton P, Ellwood M.D.F, Fayle T.M., Snaddon J.L., Turner E.C., Khen C.V., Yusah K.M. (2010) The Role of Habitat Complexity in Maintaining Arthropod Diversity and Ecosystem Function in the Emerging Agricultural Landscapes of South East Asia. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation conference in Bali, Indonesia.

Yusah K.M. & Fayle T.M. (2007) Non-destructive methods for sampling arthropods from Bird’s nest ferns (Asplenium spp.) with particular reference to the ants. Presentation to the Canopy Access Limited Basic Canopy Access course in Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia.

POSTERS

Yusah K.M., Philip. A.J. & Fayle T.M. (2019) Tropical forest fragmentation and El Nino reduce abundance and species richness in canopy ants. Science at SAFE meeting, Imperial College, London, UK.

Yusah K.M., Philip. A.J. & Fayle T.M. (2018) Experimental rain forest fragmentation and an extreme climatic event drive reductions in canopy ant abundance and species richness. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation conference, Kuching, Malaysia.

Yusah K.M., Fayle T.M., Edwards D., Foster W.A. & Turner E.C. (2014) An ant-plant by-product mutualism persists in a novel ecosystem despite reduced benefits for ants. SEARRP meeting at the Royal Society, London, UK “Threats to tropical rainforests in an era of rapid environmental change – a global synthesis”.

Yusah K.M., Fayle T.M., Edwards D., Foster W.A., Turner E.C. (2014) Novel partners support two-way by-product mutualism in a converted ecosystem. Conference of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Cairns, Australia.