Dr. Jeffrey TB Kwik
Senior Research Fellow
Email: jkwik@nus.edu.sg
PhD National University of Singapore | MSc University of Queensland | BSc(Hons) Flinder’s University South Australia
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Background and current projects
Dr. Kwik is currently a senior research fellow, leading the FIB lab reservoir team.
Research interests
- Reproductive biology of fish
- Growth in tropical marine and freshwater fish
- Trophic interactions in fish communities
- Ecological aspects of fish venom
Editorships
- Associate editor, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
- Associate editor, Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology
Selected publications
- Liew JH, Jardine TD, Lim RBH, Kwik JTB, Tan HH, Kho ZY & Yeo DCJ. 2018. Bottom‐up influences on tropical freshwater food web structure support the “environmental filtering” hypothesis. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5): 1877–1890. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10813
- Kwik JTB. 2017. Length‐weight relationships for three species of common scorpaenoids from Singapore. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 34(3): 715–716. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.13586
- Lim NKM, Tay YC, Srivathsan A, Tan JWT, Kwik JTB, Baloğlu B, Meier R & Yeo DCJ. 2016. Next-generation freshwater bioassessment: eDNA metabarcoding with a conserved metazoan primer reveals species-rich and reservoir-specific communities. Royal Society Open Science, 3(11): 160635. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160635
- Kwik JTB & Yeo DCJ. 2015. Differences in fish assemblages in protected and non-protected freshwater streams in a tropical urbanized country. Hydrobiologia, 762(1): 143–156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2344-8
- Ng HH, Low BW, Kwik JTB & Yeo DCJ. 2014. The tables are turned: an invasive species under potential threat. Biological Invasions, 16(8): 1567–1571. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-013-0618-5
- Kwik JTB, Kho ZY, Quek BS, Tan HH & Yeo DCJ. 2013. Urban stormwater ponds in Singapore: potential pathways for spread of alien freshwater fishes. BioInvasions Records, 2(3): 239–245. http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/bir.2013.2.3.11
- Kwik JTB. 2012. Controlled culling of venomous marine fishes along popular beaches: A case study of public safety management in the marine environment. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement, 25: 93–99.
- Lim KKP & Kwik JTB. 2012. Records of the Chinese cyprinid fish, Toxobramis houdemeri in Singapore. Nature in Singapore, 5: 271–273.
- Chou LM, Huang DW, Tun PPK, Kwik JTB, Tay YC & Seow LY. 2010. Temporal changes in reef community structure at Bintan Island (Indonesia) suggest need for integrated management. Pacific Science, 64(1): 99–111.
- Kwik JTB, Chen PZ, Sin TM & Ng PKL. 2010. Diel variations and diversity of fish communities along the unreclaimed shallow coastal of coastal habitats of Changi Point Beach, Singapore. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 58(1): 125–135.
- Whitehead DL, Kwik JTB & Tibbetts IR. 2008. Ampullary organ morphology and distribution of the estuarine long eel-tailed catfish, Euristhmus lepturus. Zoomorphology, 128(2): 111–117.
- Kwik JTB. 2003. Short-term field observations on the habitat preferences of the Leafy Seadragon, Phycodurus eques. Waves, 9(4): 22–23.
- Kwik JTB & Tibbetts IR. 1999. An assessment of carbon dioxide gassing as a sampling technique for studies of the nekton of soft-sediment intertidal pools. Hydrobiologia, 405: 217–222.