Low Bi Wei

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National University of Singapore
Email: biweilow@gmail.com
PhD National University of Singapore

AlumNUS

Former post-doctoral research fellow and PhD student

PhD NUS

BSc (Hons) NUS

Current designation:

Research Fellow

Lingnan University

Research interests

Ecology and taxonomy of Southeast Asian freshwater fishes; Biological invasions; Freshwater community ecology; Ecological niche models

Projects

1. Invasion biology of the African sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus, in Southeast Asia
2. Diversification patterns in the common walking catfish, Clarias batrachus
3. Biological control of aquatic insect pests in urban water bodies using odonates (dragonflies and damselflies)

Selected publications:

  • Low B. W., Zeng Y., Tan, H. H., and Yeo D. C. J. (2020). Predictor complexity and feature selection affect Maxent model transferability: Evidence from global freshwater invasive species. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13211
  • Liew, J. H., R. B. H. Lim, B. W. Low, M. A. D. Mowe, T. H. Ng, Y. Zeng & D. C. J. Yeo, 2020. Tropical freshwater ecosystems, biota, and anthropogenic activities with reference to South-East Asia. In: Woo, P. T. K., J.-A. Leong & K. Buchmann (eds.), Climate Change and Infectious Fish Diseases. Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI).
  • Tan, H. H., K. K. P. Lim, J. H. Liew, B. W. Low, R. B. H. Lim, J. T. B. Kwik & D. C. J. Yeo, 2020. The non-native freshwater fishes of Singapore: an annotated compilation. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 68: 150–195.
  • Li, T., Y. X. Loh, M. Nyanasengeran, B. W. Low, H. H. Tan, D. C. J. Yeo & Y. Cai, 2019. The fish fauna of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore. Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore, 71 (Supplement 1): 557–573.
  • Zeng, Y., B.W. Low & D. C. J. Yeo, 2016. Novel methods to select environmental variables in MaxEnt: a casestudy using invasive crayfish. Ecological Modelling, 341: 5–13.
  • Ho, J. K. I., M. Plath, B. W. Low, J. H. Liew, Y. Yi, A. Ahmad, H. H. Tan, D. C. J. Yeo & S. Klaus, 2015. Shoaling behaviour in the pygmy halfbeak Dermogenys collettei (Beloniformes: Zenarchopteridae): comparing populations from contrasting predation regimes. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 63: 237–245.
  • Tan, H. H., B. W. Low, D. C. J. Yeo & K. K. P. Lim, 2015. An update to the inland fishes of Pulau Tioman, Malaysia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 63: 555–563.
  • Low, B. W., H. H. Tan & R. Britz, 2014. Trichopodus poptae, a new anabantoid fish from Borneo (Teleostei: Osphronemidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25(1): 69–77.
  • Ng, H. H., B. W. Low, J. T. B. Kwik & D. C. J. Yeo, 2014. The tables are turned: an invasive species under potential threat. Biological Invasions, 16: 1567–1571.
  • Low, B. W., N. K. Ng & D. C. J. Yeo, 2013. First record of the invasive Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from Singapore. Bioinvasions Records, 2(1): 73–78.
  • Low, B. W. & K. K. P. Lim, 2012. Gouramies of the genus Trichopodus in Singapore (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Osphronemidae). Nature in Singapore, 5: 83–93.