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45
Citations
7672
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National Ranking
9

Overview

Loke Ming Chou is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, and earth-surface processes.

Their work covers main topics including coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, marine and fisheries research, coastal and marine management, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, coastal and marine dynamics, and international maritime law issues.

Recent publications by Loke Ming Chou include:

  • Maximising resilience to sea-level rise in urban coastal ecosystems through systematic conservation planning (2022), Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Responses of urban reef corals during the 2016 mass bleaching event (2020), Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • The contribution of stress-tolerant endosymbiotic dinoflagellate Durusdinium to Pocillopora acuta survival in a highly urbanized reef system (2020), Coral Reefs
  • Barriers and corridors of gene flow in an urbanized tropical reef system (2021), Evolutionary Applications
  • Seeking life in sedimented waters: Environmental DNA from diverse habitat types reveals ecologically significant species in a tropical marine environment (2020), Environmental DNA

They have frequently collaborated with fellow researchers such as Danwei Huang, Chin Soon Lionel Ng, Tai Chong Toh, Shu Qin Sam, and Yuichi Preslie Kikuzawa.

Loke Ming Chou's publications have appeared in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Restoration Ecology, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Ecological Indicators.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications with WS EDUCATION eBooks, with titles including "Let's Discover, Singapore!" (2022) and "Let's Discover, Singapore! (Set 2)" (2024).

Best Publications

  • Contrasting patterns of coral bleaching susceptibility in 2010 suggest an adaptive response to thermal stress.

    James R. Guest;Andrew H. Baird;Jeffrey A. Maynard;Efin Muttaqin

  • Slow Mitochondrial COI Sequence Evolution at the Base of the Metazoan Tree and Its Implications for DNA Barcoding

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Rudolf Meier;Peter A. Todd;Loke Ming Chou

  • Impacts of pollution on marine life in Southeast Asia

    Peter A. Todd;Xueyuan Ong;Loke Ming Chou

  • Urban coral reefs: Degradation and resilience of hard coral assemblages in coastal cities of East and Southeast Asia.

    Eliza C. Heery;Bert W. Hoeksema;Nicola K. Browne;Nicola K. Browne;James D. Reimer

  • Feeding habits and trophic organization of the fish community in shallow waters of an impacted tropical habitat.

    S. Hajisamae;L.M. Chou;S. Ibrahim

  • Extraordinary diversity of reef corals in the South China Sea

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Wilfredo Y. Licuanan;Bert W. Hoeksema;Chaolun Allen Chen;Chaolun Allen Chen

  • Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management

    David O. Obura;Greta Aeby;Natchanon Amornthammarong;Ward Appeltans

  • 27 years of benthic and coral community dynamics on turbid, highly urbanised reefs off Singapore.

    J R Guest;K Tun;J Low;A Vergés

  • Ecosystem carbon stocks across a tropical intertidal habitat mosaic of mangrove forest, seagrass meadow, mudflat and sandbar

    Valerie X. H. Phang;L. M. Chou;Daniel A. Friess

  • Coral community response to bleaching on a highly disturbed reef.

    James R Guest;James R Guest;J Low;K Tun;Bryan Wilson

  • Genotype × environment interactions in transplanted clones of the massive corals Favia speciosa and Diploastrea heliopora

    P. A. Todd;R. J. Ladle;N. J. I. Lewin-Koh;L. M. Chou

  • Seasonal reproduction in equatorial reef corals

    J. R. Guest;A. H. Baird;B. P.L. Goh;L. M. Chou

  • Marine Habitats in One of the World’s Busiest Harbours

    Loke Ming Chou

  • Reproductive seasonality in an equatorial assemblage of scleractinian corals

    J. R. Guest;Æ A. H. Baird;B. P. L. Goh;L. M. Chou

  • AN INVENTORY OF ZOOXANTHELLATE SCLERACTINIAN CORALS IN SINGAPORE, INCLUDING 33 NEW RECORDS

    Danwei Huang;Karenne P. P. Tun;L. M. Chou;Peter A. Todd

  • The status and impact of introduced freshwater animals in Singapore

    Peter K.L. Ng;L.M. Chou;T.J. Lam

  • Enhancing the biodiversity of coastal defence structures: transplantation of nursery-reared reef biota onto intertidal seawalls

    Chin Soon Lionel Ng;Swee Cheng Lim;Joo Yong Ong;Lay Ming Serena Teo

  • The red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) in Asia: a review

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  • Phylogeographic structure of false clownfish, Amphiprion ocellaris, explained by sea level changes on the Sunda shelf

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  • More evidence for pervasive paraphyly in scleractinian corals: systematic study of Southeast Asian Faviidae (Cnidaria; Scleractinia) based on molecular and morphological data.

    Danwei Huang;Rudolf Meier;Peter A. Todd;Loke Ming Chou

  • Towards a phylogenetic classification of reef corals: the Indo‐Pacific genera Merulina, Goniastrea and Scapophyllia (Scleractinia, Merulinidae)

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Francesca Benzoni;Roberto Arrigoni;Andrew H. Baird

  • Notes on the shallow water gorgonian-associated fauna on coral reefs in Singapore

    N. K. C. Goh;P. K. L. Ng;L. M. Chou

Frequent Co-Authors

Danwei Huang
Danwei Huang National University of Singapore
Peter A. Todd
Peter A. Todd National University of Singapore
James R. Guest
James R. Guest Newcastle University
Rudolf Meier
Rudolf Meier Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Peter D. Steinberg
Peter D. Steinberg University of New South Wales
Andrew H. Baird
Andrew H. Baird James Cook University
Chaolun Allen Chen
Chaolun Allen Chen Academia Sinica
Bert W. Hoeksema
Bert W. Hoeksema University of Groningen
Peter K. L. Ng
Peter K. L. Ng National University of Singapore
Roy C. Sidle
Roy C. Sidle University of Central Asia

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