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Selected recent publications

  1. Chen, Z.P., T.L. Su & S.S.L. Lim (under review) To hide or to feed: an evaluation of personality traits in the sand bubbler crab, Dotilla wichmanni, when responding to environmental interference. Submitted to Behavioural Processes. 

  2. Wong, Y.M. & S.S.L. Lim. 2017. Influence of shell morphometry, microstructure and thermal conductivity on thermoregulation in two tropical intertidal snails.  Invertebrate Biology 136: 228-238.

  3. Su, T.L. & S.S.L. Lim. 2017. To flee or not to flee: characterising differentiated anti-predatory responses of two mangrove crabs.  Ethology Ecology & Evolution 29: 181-192. DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2015.1129989.

  4. Su, T. L. & S.S.L. Lim. 2016. Niche partitioning in two syntopic mudskippers in a Singapore mangrove. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64: 220-228.

  5. Lim, S.S.L., A.Y.P. Yong & J.H. Christy. 2016. Ontogenetic changes in diet and related morphological adaptations of Ocypode gaudichaudii. Invertebrate Biology 135: 117-126. DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12122. 

  6. Lim, S.S.L. & A.Y.P. Yong. 2015. Rapid population recovery of Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas 1772) after an oil spill in Singapore. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63: 270–278. 

  7. Lim, S.S.L., G.M.S. Hew & A.Y.P. Yong. 2015. Constraints imposed by the major cheliped on burrow construction in the male fiddler crab, Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837). Journal of Crustacean Biology 35: 149–154. 

  8. Lim, S.S.L. & Kalpana S. 2011. Maxilliped-setation adaptations to habitat and sexual dimorphism of feeding claw in Uca perplexa and U. vomeris. Journal of Crustacean Biology 31: 406–412. 

  9. Yong, A.Y.P., S.S.L. Lim, A. Kaenphet & P. Tantichodok. 2011. Evidence of precision engineering in the excavation of Ocypode ceratophthalmus burrows in the west and east coasts of Thailand. Crustaceana 84: 749–761. 

  10. Lim, S.S.L., Yong, A.Y.P. & P. Tantichodok. 2011. Comparison of burrow morphology of juvenile and young adult Ocypode ceratophthalmus from Sai Kaew, Thailand. Journal of Crustacean Biology 31: 59–65. 

  11. Lim, S.S.L. & J.A.C. Wong. 2010. Burrow residency and re-emergence rate in a droving species, Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) and its sympatric associate, U. annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) Crustaceana 83: 677–693. 

  12. Yong, A.Y.P. & S.S.L. Lim. 2009. The potential of Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772) as a bioindicator of human disturbance on Singapore beaches. Crustaceana 82: 1579–1597. 

  13. Lee, S.L. & S.S.L. Lim. 2009. Zonation and heat tolerance of three littorinid gastropods on the rocky shore of Tanjung Chek Jawa, Singapore. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57: 551–560. 

  14. Lim, S.S.L., R. Yeo, P.K.L. Ng & S.K. Tan. 2008. Front lines. [In] Ng, P.K.L., L.K. Wang & K.K.P. Lim (eds.) Private lives: An éxpose of Singapore’s mangroves (Pp. 91-114). Singapore: National University of Singapore. 

  15. Lim, S.S.L. 2008. Body posturing in Nodilittorina pyramidalis and Austrolittorina unifasciata: A behavioural response to reduce heat stress? [In] Davie, P.F. & J.A. Phillips (eds.), Proceedings of The Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The marine fauna and flora of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of The Queensland Museum – Nature 54: 339–347. 

  16. Lim, S.S.L. & T.L. Tan. 2008. The use of infrared spectroscopy as a test for species- specific pedal mucus in gastropod molluscs – a comparative study in Moreton Bay and Singapore. [In] Davie, P.F. & J.A. Phillips (eds.), Proceedings of The Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The marine fauna and flora of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of The Queensland Museum – Nature 54: 349–354. 

  17. Lim, S.S.L. & C.K Lim. 2008. Running speed of Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) and Uca vocans (L., 1758). Crustaceana 81: 1367–1380. 

  18. Ng P.K.L., S.S.L. Lim, L.K. Wang & L.W.H. Tan. 2007. Private lives: An éxpose of Singapore’s shores. National University of Singapore. 212 pp. 

  19. Lim, S.S.L. & Rosiah A. 2007. Influence of pneumatophores on the burrow morphology of Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) in the field and in simulated mangrove micro-habitats. Crustaceana 80: 1327–1338. 

  20. Lim, S.S.L. & M.M.S. Heng. 2007. Mangrove micro-habitat influence on bioturbative activities and burrow morphology of the fiddler crab, Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837). Crustaceana 80: 31–45. 

  21. Lim, S.S.L. 2006. Fiddler crab burrow morphology: How do burrow dimensions and bioturbative activities compare in sympatric populations of Uca vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) and U. annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837). Crustaceana 79: 525–540. 

  22. Lim, S.S.L., Lee, P.S. & C.H. Diong. 2005. Influence of biotope characteristics on the distribution of Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) and U. vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) on Pulau Hantu Besar, Singapore. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53: 111–114. 

Selected recent conference presentations 

  1. Lim, S.S.L. 2016. Fun with fiddler crabs: model organisms for hypothesis testing. Opening Plenary talk, presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Mid-Year Meeting (11-13 July 2016), Singapore.

  2. Su, T.L. & S.S.L. Lim. 2016. How to brachyuran prey communities respond to predators? Presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Mid-Year Meeting (11-13 July 2016), Singapore.

  3. Goh, C.Y.Z. & S.S.L. Lim.  2016.  Sediment processing in two fiddler crab species, Uca annulipes and U. vocans in relation to their habitats.  Presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Mid-Year Meeting (11 –13 July 2016), Singapore.

  4. Yong, A.Y.P. & S.S.L. Lim.  2016.  Saving for a rainy day: caching of excess food in Ocypode gaudichaudii.  Presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Mid-Year Meeting (11 –13 July 2016), Singapore.

  5. Yong, A.Y.P. & S.S.L. Lim.  2016.  How do ‘pregnant’ painted ghost crabs get hydrated?  Presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Mid-Year Meeting (11 –13 July 2016), Singapore.

  6. Lok, X.L., N.T. Lim, D.J. Wang & S.S.L. Lim.  2016.  To feed or not to feed: impacts of supplementary feeding on vertebrate communities in Singapore.  Presented at The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation/Society for Conservation Biology Conference (29 June – 2 July 2016), Singapore.

  7. Ng, J.J.J. & S.S.L. Lim. 2015. Different grooming and water-circulation rates in two fiddler crab species: evidence of adaptation to habitats? Presented at The Crustacean Society and International Association of Astacology (TCS–IAA) Mid– Year Meeting (19–23 July 2015), Sydney, Australia. 

  8. Su, T.L. & S.S.L. Lim. 2015. To flee or not to flee: decisions of two genera of crabs in response to a series of predator model variants. Presented at The Crustacean Society and International Association of Astacology (TCS–IAA) Mid-Year Meeting (19–23 July 2015), Sydney, Australia. 

  9. Yong, A.Y.P. & S.S.L. Lim. 2015. Switching or expanding the diet: feeding strategies of Ocypode gaudichaudii during ontogeny. Presented at The Crustacean Society and International Association of Astacology (TCS–IAA) Mid-Year Meeting (19–23 July 2015), Sydney, Australia. 

  10. Su, T.L. & S.S.L. Lim. 2014. Anti-predatory behaviours employed by two common general of crabs in response to a mudskipper model. The XV Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (31 July–5 August 2014), New York City, U.S.A. 

  11. Yong, A.Y.P. & S.S.L. Lim. 2014. Plasticity of feeding behaviour of the painted ghost crab, Ocypode gaudichaudii at shores of different wave exposure. The XV Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (31 July–5 August 2014), New York City, U.S.A. 

  12. Lim, S.S.L., G.M.S. Hew & A.Y.P. Yong. 2013. Influence of the major cheliped on burrow morphology of the male fiddler crab, Uca annulipes. Presented at The Crustacean Society and Latin American Association of Carcinology (TCS–LAAC) Summer Meeting (7–11 July 2013), San José, Costa Rica. 

  13. Goh, C.Y.Z, Lim, S.S.L., & A.Y.P. Yong. 2013. Food and sediment processing in the fiddler crab, Uca annulipes. Presented at The Crustacean Society and Latin American Association of Carcinology (TCS–LAAC) Summer Meeting (7–11 July 2013), San José, Costa Rica. 

  14. Yong, A.Y.P. & S.S.L. Lim. 2013. Plasticity of feeding strategies of the ghost crab Ocypode gaudichaudii at shores of different wave exposure. Presented at The Crustacean Society and Latin American Association of Carcinology (TCS–LAAC) Summer Meeting (7–11 July 2013), San José, Costa Rica. — Best Student Oral Presentation Award 

  15. Wong, Y.M. & S.S.L. Lim. 2011. Shell morphology and microstructure of two Singapore littorinids, Echinolittorina malaccana and E. vidua. Presented at X International Symposium on Littorinid Biology and Evolution (ISOLBE) 2011 (24–29 July 2011), St. Petersburg, Russia. 

  16. Chin, P.P. & S.S.L. Lim. 2011. The effect of temperature on heart rate and Q10 of the ghost crab Ocypode ceratophthalmus. Presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Summer Meeting (6–9 June 2011), Honolulu, Hawai’i. 

  17. Lim, S.S.L., A.Y.P. Yong & J.H. Christy. 2011. In spite of its highly specialized claws, the ghost crab Ocypode gaudichaudii is not a picky eater. Presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Summer Meeting (6–9 June 2011), Honolulu, Hawai’i. 

  18. Ng, G.H. & S.S.L. Lim. 2011. A unique crustacean community adapted to extreme salinity fluctuations in the vicinity of an urban Singapore concrete drain. Presented at The Crustacean Society Summer Meeting (6–9 June 2011), Honolulu, Hawai’i. 

  19. Ng, K.L.J., S.S.L. Lim & H.T. Shih. 2011. Is there plasticity in mouthpart and gastric mill adaptations to different habitats in Uca formosensis? Presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Summer Meeting (6–9 June 2011), Honolulu, Hawaii. 

  20. Su, T.L.T. & S.S.L. Lim. 2011. Effect of mudskipper predation on crustacean abundance and biodiversity in a Singapore mangrove. Presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Summer Meeting (6–9 June 2011), Honolulu, Hawai’i. 

  21. Yong, A.Y.P. & S.S.L. Lim. 2011. Responsiveness of Ocypode ceratophthalmus populations in Singapore beaches to environmental stress. Presented at The Crustacean Society (TCS) Summer Meeting (6–9 June 2011), Honolulu, Hawai’i. 

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