Mark Wong
@markklwong.bsky.social
Ecologist & Entomologist. Incoming ARC DECRA & Lecturer, University of Sydney. Associate Editor, Insect Conservation and Diversity and Asian Myrmecology. Explorer, National Geographic Society. DPhil from University of Oxford. markwongecology.com
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Mark Wong
@markklwong.bsky.social
· Oct 4
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Recruiting a PhD student in Sydney in 2026 ✨🎓✨
Exciting fieldwork & experiments on ants in Australia 🐜
International and domestic applicants welcome 🌍
Details: markwongecology.com/join
#PhDPosition #GradSchool #Ecology #Zoology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Invasive #Entomology #Ant
Recruiting a PhD student in Sydney in 2026 ✨🎓✨
Exciting fieldwork & experiments on ants in Australia 🐜
International and domestic applicants welcome 🌍
Details: markwongecology.com/join
#PhDPosition #GradSchool #Ecology #Zoology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Invasive #Entomology #Ant
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 🙏
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 🙏
Join — Sydney Functional Ecology
markwongecology.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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 🙏
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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📰Published📰 When differences help – or hinder – coexistence: Functional insights from mangrove ants🐜
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When differences help – or hinder – coexistence: Functional insights from mangrove ants
Mark K. L. Wong, Yuet Him Choi, François Brassard, Chi Man Leong, Toby P. N. Tsang, Owen T. Lewis, Benoit Guénard This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can…
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September 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📰Published📰 When differences help – or hinder – coexistence: Functional insights from mangrove ants🐜
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Reposted by Mark Wong
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/...
Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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/...
Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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/...
Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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/...
Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...
August 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
Reposted by Mark Wong
#ClimateChange can exacerbate ant invasion impacts by unleashing indoor populations into outdoor environments
doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
#invasivespecies #ants
doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
#invasivespecies #ants
July 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#ClimateChange can exacerbate ant invasion impacts by unleashing indoor populations into outdoor environments
doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
#invasivespecies #ants
doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
#invasivespecies #ants
With global warming, non-native ants currently confined to indoor environments (e.g. buildings, greenhouses) may march outdoors, impacting nature and society. Our new study:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
Climate Change Can Exacerbate Ant Invasion Impacts by Unleashing Indoor Populations Into Outdoor Environments
Aim Thousands of non-native species have established populations and spread in outdoor environments (i.e., Naturalised), yet some populations or species only occur indoors, potentially due to unsuit...
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July 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
With global warming, non-native ants currently confined to indoor environments (e.g. buildings, greenhouses) may march outdoors, impacting nature and society. Our new study:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
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Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience
May 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience
New paper in #BiologyLetters: preliminary evidence for a less appreciated latitudinal biodiversity gradient – in how communities partition time⌛️🌞🌔
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Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity | Biology Letters
The writings of naturalists from two centuries past are brimming with accounts of the stark differences in the kinds and numbers of organisms encountered during the day and night as well as between the tropical and temperate zones. However, only recently ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New paper in #BiologyLetters: preliminary evidence for a less appreciated latitudinal biodiversity gradient – in how communities partition time⌛️🌞🌔
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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New preprint:
Ant Diversity and Foraging Across the Diel Cycle is Unaltered by Experimental Exposure to Artificial Light at Night
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Ant Diversity and Foraging Across the Diel Cycle is Unaltered by Experimental Exposure to Artificial Light at Night
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
April 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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....
Ant Diversity and Foraging Across the Diel Cycle is Unaltered by Experimental Exposure to Artificial Light at Night
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Reposted by Mark Wong
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
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
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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
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
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
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
April 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
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
Reposted by Mark Wong
It happens frequently. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Misrepresentation of invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms
Click on the article title to read more.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It happens frequently. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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. 🏙️🌾🌍
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. 🏙️🌾🌍
December 4, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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. 🏙️🌾🌍
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. 🏙️🌾🌍
1/ 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨
We just published our latest work: "Human pressure homogenises species and traits globally". 🌍🦋🪴 Dive into the findings below or check out the preprint here:
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5395446/v1.
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We just published our latest work: "Human pressure homogenises species and traits globally". 🌍🦋🪴 Dive into the findings below or check out the preprint here:
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5395446/v1.
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December 4, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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! 🌤️
November 18, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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! 🌤️