Three new students have joined the lab this month. Angelica See is a new PhD student, who recently completed her undergraduate degree in ecology at Nanyang Technological University. Her thesis research will focus on the effects of habitat fragmentation on tropical ecosystems. Kong Fanhua is a visiting PhD student from East China Normal University, where she is supervised by He Fangliang. She is studying species coexistence using empirical and theoretical approaches, and will be with us for two years. Nicholas Foong is an undergraduate student who will be doing his Honours project on global patterns of mangrove diversity. Welcome all!