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Ecology and Evolution
Singapore
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
62
Citations
12353
World Ranking
2099
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Stephen B. Pointing is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with specific contributions to ecology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, oceanography, and pollution.

The main topics explored in their work include microbial community ecology and physiology, indoor air quality and microbial exposure, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, polar research and ecology, climate change communication and perception, marine biology and ecology research, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Stephen D. J. Archer, Teruya Maki, Kevin C. Lee, Patrick K. H. Lee, and Tina Šantl-Temkiv.

Stephen B. Pointing has published several recent papers, such as:

  • Microbial ecology of the atmosphere, 2022, FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • Differential Colonization and Succession of Microbial Communities in Rock and Soil Substrates on a Maritime Antarctic Glacier Forefield, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Endosymbiont diversity and community structure in Porites lutea from Southeast Asia are driven by a suite of environmental variables, 2020, Symbiosis
  • Desert and anthropogenic mixing dust deposition influences microbial communities in surface waters of the western Pacific Ocean, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Anthropogenic impact on the atmospheric microbiome, 2020, Nature Microbiology

Their publications frequently appear in the venues Frontiers in Microbiology, The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Microbiome, Nature Microbiology, and FEMS Microbiology Reviews.

Best Publications

  • Feasibility of bioremediation by white-rot fungi.

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  • A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes

    C. L. Schoch;P. W. Crous;J. Z. Groenewald;E. W. A. Boehm

  • Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

    Stephen B. Pointing;Jayne Belnap

  • Highly specialized microbial diversity in hyper-arid polar desert

    Stephen B. Pointing;Yuki Chan;Donnabella C. Lacap;Maggie C.Y. Lau

  • Stochastic and deterministic processes interact in the assembly of desert microbial communities on a global scale

    Tancredi Caruso;Yuki Chan;Donnabella C Lacap;Maggie C Y Lau

  • Hypolithic cyanobacteria, dry limit of photosynthesis, and microbial ecology in the hyperarid Atacama Desert.

    Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes;Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes;Kevin L. Rhodes;Stephen B. Pointing;Stephanie A. Ewing

  • Role of fungi in marine ecosystems

    Kevin D. Hyde;E.B. Gareth Jones;Eduardo Leaño;Stephen B. Pointing

  • Multi-locus phylogeny of Pleosporales: A taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary re-evaluation

    Y. Zhang;C.L. Schoch;J. Fournier;P.W. Crous

  • Ancient origins determine global biogeography of hot and cold desert cyanobacteria

    Justin Bahl;Maggie C.Y. Lau;Gavin J.D. Smith;Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna

  • Functional ecology of an Antarctic Dry Valley

    Yuki Chan;Yuki Chan;Joy D. Van Nostrand;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Stephen B. Pointing

  • Non-indigenous microorganisms in the Antarctic: Assessing the risks

    Don A Cowan;Steven Loudon Chown;Peter Convey;Marla Tuffin

  • Hypolithic microbial communities: between a rock and a hard place

    Yuki Chan;Donnabella C. Lacap;Maggie C. Y. Lau;Kong Ying Ha

  • Bacterial community composition in thermophilic microbial mats from five hot springs in central Tibet

    Maggie C. Y. Lau;Jonathan C. Aitchison;Stephen B. Pointing

  • Towards a phylogenetic clarification of Lophiostoma / Massarina and morphologically similar genera in the Pleosporales

    Y. Zhang;H.K. Wang;J. Fournier;P.W. Crous

  • Production of wood decay enzymes, mass loss and lignin solubilization in wood by marine ascomycetes and their anamorphs

    Vvc Bucher;KD Hyde;SB Pointing;CA Reddy

  • Hypolithic community shifts occur as a result of liquid water availability along environmental gradients in China's hot and cold hyperarid deserts

    Stephen B. Pointing;Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes;Donnabella C. Lacap;Kevin L. Rhodes

  • Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats

    Stephen David James Archer;Stephen David James Archer;Kevin C. Lee;Tancredi Caruso;Teruya Maki

  • Airborne Bacterial Populations Above Desert Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

    Eric M. Bottos;Anthony C. Woo;Peyman Zawar-Reza;Peyman Zawar-Reza;Stephen B. Pointing;Stephen B. Pointing

  • Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert

    Francesca Stomeo;Francesca Stomeo;Angel Valverde;Angel Valverde;Stephen B. Pointing;Christopher P. McKay

  • The effects of temperature, pH and sulphide on the community structure of hyperthermophilic streamers in hot springs of northern Thailand

    Diane Purcell;Diane Purcell;Udomluk Sompong;Lau Chui Yim;Timothy G. Barraclough;Timothy G. Barraclough

  • Cyanobacteria and chloroflexi-dominated hypolithic colonization of quartz at the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile

    Donnabella C. Lacap;Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes;Christopher P. McKay;Stephen B. Pointing

  • Temporal variation in airborne microbial populations and microbially-derived allergens in a tropical urban landscape

    Anthony C. Woo;Manreetpal S. Brar;Yuki Chan;Maggie C.Y. Lau

  • Highly specialized microbial diversity in hyper-arid polar desert (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2009) 106, 47, (19964-19969) DOI:10.1073/pnas.0908274106)

    SB Pointing;Y Chan;DC Lacap;Mcy Lau

Frequent Co-Authors

Don A. Cowan
Don A. Cowan University of Pretoria
Kevin D. Hyde
Kevin D. Hyde Mae Fah Luang University
S. Craig Cary
S. Craig Cary University of Waikato
Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center
Tancredi Caruso
Tancredi Caruso Queen's University Belfast
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Nathalie A. Cabrol
Nathalie A. Cabrol Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Jonathan C. Aitchison
Jonathan C. Aitchison University of Queensland
Gavin J. D. Smith
Gavin J. D. Smith Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
T.G. Allan Green
T.G. Allan Green University of Waikato

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