Lynette H. L. LOKE

I am an early-career postdoctoral researcher and I am deeply fascinated by patterns of biodiversity and the processes that shape and create them. I conducted my PhD in EMEL on the ecological engineering Singapore’s seawalls, integrating theory and experimentation to test how habitat complexity and fragmentation regulate intertidal communities. My work, which won the Chua Toh Hua Memorial Gold Medal for 2016, led directly to and formed the foundation of a >S$5 million, 4.5-year, National Research Foundation (NRF) project under the Marine Science R&D Programme (MSRDP) to increase biodiversity on tropical seawalls.

Research interests

Community ecology; Marine ecology; Spatial ecology; Urban marine ecology; Ecological engineering; Conservation biology