Clare L Wilkinson

PhD Imperial College of London & National University of Singapore

Alumnus

Former post-doctorate research fellow and PhD student

PhD Joint Imperial-NUS PhD Programme

MSc: Imperial College London, UK
BSc (Hons): Cardiff University, UK

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Areas of interest

Freshwater fish and management of freshwater ecosystems in the tropics

Background

My undergraduate degree at Cardiff University in Zoology led to my interest in freshwater ecosystems. During my Masters degree at Imperial College London, I was introduced to tropical fieldwork and collected the base line data on fish diversity at the SAFE project. I was then set on continuing research on freshwater fish in Sabah, Borneo, and continued this for my PhD, looking at the effects that deforestation and conversion of forest to palm oil plantation has on freshwater fish.

Previous projects

Clare focused on the impacts of catchment scale land-use effects on freshwater fish in waterways within Singapore, and more broadly understanding the impacts of land-use change on freshwater ecosystems across Southeast Asia.

Selected publications

• Wilkinson C. L., Kwik J. T., Ow A. M., Lim R. B. H., Liu S., Tan C. L., Saw A. C., Liew J. H. and Yeo, D.C. J. (2021). Rehabilitation of a tropical storm-water drain creates a novel fish assemblage. Ecological Engineering, 161, 106150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106150
• Wilkinson C. L., Chua K. W., Fiala R., Liew J. H., Kemp V., Hadi Fikri A., Ewers R. M., Kratina P. and Yeo, D. C. J (2020). Forest conversion to oil palm compresses food chain length in tropical streams. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3199
• Wiederkehr F.^†, Wilkinson C. L., Zeng Y., Yeo, D. C. J., Ewers R. M., and O’Gorman E. J. (2020) Urbanisation affects ecosystem functioning more than structure in tropical streams. Biological Conservation 249: 108634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108634
• Wilkinson, C. L., D. C. J. Yeo, H. H. Tan, A. H. Fikri & R. Ewers, 2019. Resilience of a tropical freshwater fish (Nematabramis everetti) populations to severe drought over a land-use gradient in Borneo. Environmental Research Letters, 14: 045008.
• Wilkinson, C. L., D. C. J. Yeo, H. H. Tan, A. H. Fikri & R. Ewers, 2018. Land-use change is associated with a significant loss of freshwater fish species and functional richness in Sabah, Malaysia. Biological Conservation, 222: 164–171.
• Wilkinson, C. L., D. C. J. Yeo, H. H. Tan, A. H. Fikri & R. Ewers, 2018. The availability of freshwater fish resources is maintained across a land‐use gradient in Sabah, Borneo. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 28(5): 1044–1054.
• Wilkinson, C. L. & H. H. Tan, 2018. Fishes of the Brantian drainage, Sabah, Malaysia, with description of a new Rasbora species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 66:595–609.