معرفی
Kalsum M. Yusah is a Principal Investigator at Universiti Malaysia Sabah, focusing on animal responses to human-driven environmental changes with a primary emphasis on ant communities. Her research explores impacts of logging, forest fragmentation, and oil palm conversion on ant-plant interactions, vertical stratification of ant communities in canopies, and climate change predictions through ant scavenging rate analysis along altitudinal gradients. She collaborates with the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) project, Sabah Parks, and Danau Girang Field Centre for banteng conservation studies.
- Current research spans ant community dynamics in tropical rainforests and human disturbance effects on wild cattle distribution
- Collaborators include institutions in UK, Czech Republic, Australia, and Malaysia
Her PhD students investigate entomopathogenic fungi-arthropod interactions, ant co-occurrence patterns, and pest control in oil palm using weaver ants. Funding sources include UMSGreat, Czech Science Foundation, and SEARRP.
