Postgraduate Theses

Available Postgraduate Theses

Year Title
2021
Kurz, D.J. 2021. Conservation of a socio-ecological system: Indigenous hunting communities and bearded pigs in Malaysian Borneo. PhD Thesis. University of California, Berkeley. (691 downloads )
2020
Kooros, S.J. 2020. Using accelerometers to investigate nocturnal activity in proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in Sabah, Malaysia. MEB Thesis, Utrecht University. (709 downloads )
Brunke, J. 2020. Effects of habitat fragmentation in a tropical rainforest ecosystem: a case study on the genetic diversity of small mammal communities in the Locwer Kinabatangan floodplain on Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia. Dr. Rer Nat. Thesis, Institute of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. (598 downloads )
Proboscis monkey, Nasalis larvatus: feeding ecology and seed dispersal in a fragmented forest landscape (796 downloads )
Application of thermal imaging in primate studies in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Sabah (647 downloads )
The Price of Persistence: Small Carnivore Ecology within the Anthropogenically-Degraded Kinabatangan Landscape (776 downloads )
2019
Movement speed of Bornean elephants (Elephas maximus borneensis) travelling through the Lower Kinabatangan Floodplain of Sabah, Malaysia Borneo (1316 downloads )
Ecology and Health of the Asian water monitor lizard (Varanus salvator) in the fragmented landscape of the Kinabatangan Floodplain, Sabah, Malaysia (3243 downloads )
Ecology of smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (616 downloads )
2018
Habitat use and movement of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in a degraded and human-modified forest landscape (843 downloads )
2017
Identification of animal interactions with Nauclea orientalis along the Kinabatangan River, Sabah (Malaysia): highlight of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) role in seed dispersal (736 downloads )
Quantifying and understanding rapid land use change in the Lower Kinabatangan floodplains, Malaysian Borneo (774 downloads )
Impacts of Rapid Land Use Change on the Meandering Dynamics of the Kinabatangan River, Borneo (794 downloads )
Predictive Spatial Modelling and Distribution Mapping of Bornean Banteng (Bos javanicus lowi) in Sabah, Malaysia (863 downloads )
Diversity of prey associated with Varanus salvator’s diet in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Malaysia (838 downloads )
Behaviour and Spatial Ecology of the Bornean elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis) in Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysia Borneo (801 downloads )
Assessing the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and oocyst shedding in free ranging domestic cats and wild civets in the Lower Kinabatangan floodplain in Sabah, Borneo (829 downloads )
2016
Survival strategies of the sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) in the lower Kinabatangan floodplain, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (1018 downloads )
Assessing the influence of anthropogenic disturbance on sympatric felids on Borneo with special reference to the Sunda clouded leopard (817 downloads )
Valoración clínica de felinos de Borneo en programas de conservación: pantera nebulosa sunda (Neofelis diardi) y gato leopardo (Prionailurus bengalensis) (569 downloads )
A camera trap study on the riparian corridor width required to sustain high species diversity and orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus morio) occurrence in the highly fragmented landscape of Borneo (834 downloads )
Spatial and temporal trends of Bornean elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis) hotspots in oil palm plantations, Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah (813 downloads )
2015
Influence of fruit availability on Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) ranging behavior and feeding ecology in Danau Girang, Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysia (588 downloads )
The natural history, non-invasive sampling, activity patterns and population genetic structure of the Bornean banteng Bos javanicus lowi in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (741 downloads )
Determining basking behaviour in Crocodylus porosus in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Sabah, Malaysia (742 downloads )
Using Local and Global Knowledge in Wireless Sensor Networks (737 downloads )
2014
Understanding how to define where to invest conservation effort: with emphasis on forest connectivity in an oil palm dominated floodplain landscape (757 downloads )
Forest Governance and Forest Conservation in Sabah, Malaysia (759 downloads )
Resource-use and recursion by a mega-herbivore Elephas maximus borneensis (786 downloads )
2013
Effect of habitat fragmentation and alteration on arboreal frogs in Sabah, Malaysia (0 downloads )
2012
A survey of endoparasites in endangered Bornean elephants Elephas maximus borneensis in continuous and fragmented habitat (766 downloads )
Etude des sites dortoirs des nasiques, Nasalis larvatus, et de leur utilisation le long de la rivière Kinabatangan, à Sabah, sur l’île de Bornéo en Malaisie (618 downloads )
2011
Population ecology of the estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in the lower Kinabatangan River (910 downloads )
Biodiversity Conservation in Oil Palm Plantations and Fragmented Secondary Forests: A Study of Bornean Anurans (798 downloads )
2010
Comparative study of abundance and diversity of small mammals in over-logged forest and oil palm plantations in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo (996 downloads )
Population density, habitat, trapping and taxonomy of the bornean slow loris (Nycticebus menagensis) and bornean tarsier (Tarsius bancanus borneanus) (774 downloads )
Primate viability in a fragmented landscape: genetic diversity and parasite burden of long-tailed macaques and proboscis monkeys in the Lower Kinabatangan Floodplain, Sabah, Malaysia. PhD Thesis; School of Biosciences, Cardiff University (658 downloads )