IBER Publications

Chen, Yuan, Moritz Müller, Alexander R. Cobb, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Jens Zinke, R. Nagarajan, R. Sharveen, Abdulmajid Muhammad Ali, and Patrick Martin. 2025. “Degradability and Remineralization of Peat-Derived Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Sunda Shelf Sea.” Aquatic Sciences 87 (2): 45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-025-01170-6.
Ibrahim, Mohamad Hilmi, and Salwana Jaafar. 2025. “Variation on Water Quality of Kerangas Forest Streams Due to Invasion of Acacia.” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 197 (3): 291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-025-13749-5.
Ng, Heok Hee, Rafhiah Kahar, and Heok Hui Tan. 2025. “A New Species of Catfish, Pterocryptis Vorax (Actinopterygii: Siluridae), from Northern Borneo.” Zootaxa 5575 (4): 535–44. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5575.4.3.
Suhip, Muhammad Asri A. B. H., Alexander R. Cobb, Rahayu S. Sukri, Mario Schirmer, and Stefan H. Gödeke. 2024. “Groundwater Monitoring, Geophysical and Hydrochemical Assessment of Highly Disturbed Peat Deposits at Badas, Brunei Darussalam.” Mires and Peat 31 (December):19. https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2023.CM.Sc.2332104.
Ikbal, Irsalina Mohd, Salwana Md Jaafar, Norhayati Ahmad, and Rahayu Sukri. 2024. “Contrasting Environmental Drivers of Tree Community Variation within Heath Forests in Brunei Darussalam, Borneo.” Biodiversity Data Journal 12 (e127919). https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e127919.
Dong, Jiajia, Yong Liu, Ming Kai Tan, Rodzay Abdul Wahab, Romain Nattier, Pascaline Chifflet-Belle, and Tony Robillard. 2024. “Museomics Allows Comparative Analyses of Mitochondrial Genomes in the Family Gryllidae (Insecta, Orthoptera) and Confirms Its Phylogenetic Relationships.” PeerJ 12 (August):e17734. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17734.
Abdullah, Mohamad Farid, Salwana Md Jaafar, Norhayati Ahmad, and Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri. 2024. “Tropical Palms and Factors Influencing Their Distributions and Diversity, with a Focus on Pinanga Diversity in Southeast Asia.” Biotropia 31 (2): 291–307. https://doi.org/10.11598/btb.2024.31.2.2023.
Gorczyca, Jacek, Andrzej Wolski, Frédéric Chérot, Claas Damken, Rodzay A. Wahab, and Artur Taszakowski. 2024. “Descriptions of Four New Species of the Genus Peritropis Uhler (Miridae, Cylapinae) from Brunei Darussalam.” Journal of the International Heteropterists’ Society 1 (3): 168–84. https://doi.org/10.11646/jihs.1.3.3.
Narayanan, Manjula Muthu, Faizah Metali, Pooja Shivanand, and Norhayati Ahmad. 2024. “Mangrove Endophytic Fungi: Biocontrol Potential against Rhizoctonia Solani and Biofertilizers for Fragrant Rice Cultivation.” Heliyon 10 (11). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32310.
Mannion, Natasha, Salwa Khalid, Rachel Gaulton, Jerry How, Marion Pfeifer, Ferry Slik, Stephen Willis, and T Grafe. 2024. “New Sightings of Bornean Ground-Cuckoo Carpococcyx Radiceus in Brunei, with Notes on Habitat Preferences and Association with Bearded Pigs.” BirdingAsia 41 (June):37–47.
Chen, Cheng-Wei, Daniele Cicuzza, Stuart Lindsay, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Yi-Shan Chao, Yao-Moan Huang, and Kuo-Fang Chung. 2024. “Haplopteris Palustris, A New Terrestrial Vittarioid Fern (Pteridaceae; Polypodiales) from Western Malesia.” Systematic Botany 49 (1): 227–35. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364424X17110457048659.
Hroneš, Michal, Michal Sochor, Salwana Jaafar, Rahayu S. Sukri, and Martin Dančák. 2024. “First Record of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae, Epidendroideae) from Brunei Darussalam.” Phytotaxa 644 (1): 19–26. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.644.1.3.
Lundquist, Clive R, Paula J Rudall, Rahayu S Sukri, María Conejero, Alyssa Smith, Martin Lopez-Garcia, Silvia Vignolini, Faizah Metali, and Heather M Whitney. 2024. “Living Jewels: Iterative Evolution of Iridescent Blue Leaves from Helicoidal Cell Walls.” Annals of Botany 134 (1): 131–50. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae045.
Bandla, Aditya, Hasan Akhtar, Massimo Lupascu, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, and Sanjay Swarup. 2024. “Elevated Methane Flux in a Tropical Peatland Post-Fire Is Linked to Depth-Dependent Changes in Peat Microbiome Assembly.” Npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 10 (1): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-024-00478-9.
Rosli, Roshanizah, Kushan U. Tennakoon, Muhammad Yusran S. M. Yaakub, and Nur Aqilah H. Zainal Ariffin and Faizah Metali. 2024. “Host Selectivity and Distribution of Cassytha Filiformis in the Coastal Bornean Heath Forests (Early View).” Tropical Life Sciences Research 35 (2): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.21315/tlsr2024.35.2.1.
Cooper, Declan L. M., Simon L. Lewis, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Paulo I. Prado, Hans ter Steege, Nicolas Barbier, Ferry Slik, et al. 2024. “Consistent Patterns of Common Species across Tropical Tree Communities.” Nature 625 (7996): 728–34. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z.
Kahar, Rafhiah, Norhayati Ahmad, and Takaomi Arai. 2024. “Gonadal Maturation and Reproductive Timing in Batch Spawning Tropical Cypriniform Fishes Lobocheilos Ovalis, Rasbora Argyrotaenia and Tor Tambra.” Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries 4 (6): e70007. https://doi.org/10.1002/aff2.70007.
Taufik, Amanina Yusrina, Hartini Mohd Yasin, Norhayati Ahmad, Masayoshi Arai, and Fairuzeta Ja’afar. 2024. “An Investigation into the Phytochemical Content and Antioxidant, Antidiabetic, and Wound-Healing Activities of Curculigo Latifolia Found in Brunei Darussalam.” The Scientific World Journal 2024 (1): 5656744. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/5656744.
Rosli, Roshanizah, Kushan U. Tennakoon, and Faizah Metali. 2024. “Ecophysiological Responses of Native and Introduced Coastal Tree Species Parasitized by Cassytha Filiformis in Brunei.” Plant-Environment Interactions 5 (4): e70000. https://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.70000.
Matussin, Shaidatul Najihah, Fazlurrahman Khan, Pathum Chandika, Mohammad Hilni Harunsani, Norhayati Ahmad, Young-Mog Kim, Won-Kyo Jung, and Mohammad Mansoob Khan. 2023. “α-Glucosidase Inhibitory Activity and Cytotoxicity of CeO2 Nanoparticles Fabricated Using a Mixture of Different Cerium Precursors.” ACS Omega, December. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c02524.
Jaafar, Salwana Md., and Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri. 2023. “Data on the Physicochemical Characteristics and Texture Classification of Soil in Bornean Tropical Heath Forests Affected by Exotic Acacia Mangium.” Data in Brief 51 (December):109670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109670.
Kalinaki, Kassim, Owais Ahmed Malik, Daphne Teck Ching Lai, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, and Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul Wahab. 2023. “Spatial-Temporal Mapping of Forest Vegetation Cover Changes along Highways in Brunei Using Deep Learning Techniques and Sentinel-2 Images.” Ecological Informatics 77 (November):102193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102193.
Mannion, Natasha L. M., Joseph K. Charles, Rachel Gaulton, Jerry Wong Sia How, Salwa Khalid, Marion Pfeifer, and J. W. Ferry Slik. 2023. “A Novel White Mouse Deer Observation in Brunei Darussalam.” Mammalia, October. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2023-0080.
Mohamad, Nur Azyyati Haziqah, Hussein Taha, Pooja Shivanand, Norhayati Ahmad, Anis Nadiah Abdillah, Muhammad Azib Alias, Abdul Zul’adly Mohaimin, and Sarayu Krishnamoorthy. 2023. “Endophytic Fungal Species Isolated from Mangrove Trees Rhizophora Apiculata, Nypa Fruticans, and Xylocarpus Granatum from Brunei Darussalam.” Philippine Journal of Science 152 (5). https://doi.org/10.56899/152.05.33.
Arai, Takaomi, Hussein Taha, Najihah Alidon, Juhaidah Jumat, Syakirah Azmey, Nur Dhabitah Zan, Tun Nurul Aimi Mat Jaafar, and Ahasan Habib. 2023. “Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I Gene Analysis of the Yellowfin Snapper, Lutjanus Xanthopinnis in the Indo-Pacific Region and a Note on Lutjanus Lutjanus Population Structure.” Heliyon 9 (9): e19348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19348.
Ikbal, Irsalina M., Hazimah H. M. Din, Wardah H. Tuah, Salwana Md Jaafar, Norhayati Ahmad, and Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri. 2023. “Review: Diversity, Structure, and Community Composition of Bornean Heath Forest with a Focus on Brunei Darussalam.” Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity 24 (5): 2814–29. https://doi.org/10.13057/biodiv/d240535.
Kahar, Rafhiah, Norhayati Ahmad, and Takaomi Arai. 2023. “Year-Round Spawning of Three Tropical Cypriniformes Fishes in Southeast Asia.” Scientific Reports 13 (1): 8971. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36065-9.
Cobb, Alexander R., René Dommain, Rahayu S. Sukri, Faizah Metali, Bodo Bookhagen, Charles F. Harvey, and Hao Tang. 2023. “Improved Terrain Estimation from Spaceborne Lidar in Tropical Peatlands Using Spatial Filtering.” Science of Remote Sensing 7 (June):100074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2022.100074.
Zullkiflee, Nadzirah, Fatimah Hashim, Hussein Taha, and Anwar Usman. 2023. “Antifungal and Antiamoebic Activities, Cytotoxicity, and Toxicity of Aqueous and Ethanolic Extracts of Propolis Produced by Brunei Stingless Bees.” Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences 16 (2): 259–66. https://doi.org/10.54319/jjbs/160210.
Tan, Ming Kai, Amira Aqilah Muhammad, and Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul Wahab. 2023. “The Taxonomy and Bioacoustics of the Elusive Crickets from the Genus Pendleburyella Chopard, 1969 (Gryllidae: Pentacentrinae).” Zootaxa 5277 (1): 131–48. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5277.1.6.
Ogasahara, Misato, Alexander R. Cobb, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Faizah Metali, and Koichi Kamiya. 2023. “Genetic Structure and Population History of a Peat Swamp Forest Tree Species, Shorea Albida (Dipterocarpaceae), in Brunei Darussalam.” Genes & Genetic Systems 98 (1): 35–44. https://doi.org/10.1266/ggs.22-00112.
Jaafar, Salwana Md, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Faizah Metali, and David F. R. P. Burslem. 2023. “Litterfall Production and Litter Decomposition Experiments: In Situ Datasets of Nutrient Fluxes in Two Bornean Lowland Rain Forests Associated with Acacia Invasion.” Data 8 (2): 30. https://doi.org/10.3390/data8020030.
Tan, Wei Harn, Lisa Ong, and Joeri Sergej Strijk. 2023. “Castanopsis Corallocarpus (Fagaceae), a New Species from Royal Belum (Perak) in Peninsular Malaysia.” PhytoKeys 219 (January):1–10. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.219.95991.
Tan, Ming Kai, Jacob Duncan, Rodzay bin Haji Abdul Wahab, Chow-Yang Lee, Razy Japir, Arthur Y. C. Chung, Jessica B. Baroga-Barbecho, Sheryl A. Yap, and Fernando Montealegre-Z. 2023. “The Calling Songs of Some Katydids (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea) from the Tropical Forests of Southeast Asia.” Journal of Orthoptera Research 32 (1): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.32.84563.
Tan, Heok Hui, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Rafhiah Kahar, and René Dommain. 2023. “First Record of Encheloclarias (Teleostei: Clariidae) from Brunei Darussalam with Notes on the Taxonomic Status of E. Baculum Ng & Lim, 1993, and E. Prolatus Ng & Lim, 1993.” Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71:237–47. https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2023-0018.
Ukotije-Ikwut, Peter R., Zvi Steiner, Martha Gledhill, Moritz Müller, Joanne M. Oakes, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Shan Jiang, and Eric P. Achterberg. 2023. “The Distribution and Behaviour of Fe, Al, Si, Mn, Cu and Ni in Ombrotrophic Tropical Peat Draining Blackwater Estuaries on Borneo Island.” Frontiers in Marine Science 9. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.1075155.
Chui, S. X., R. B. H. A. Wahab, and S. D. Leonhardt. 2022. “Stingless Bee (Apidae: Meliponini) Foraging and Predation at Trunk Resin Sources: Rare Observations Captured with Microcontroller-Based Camera Traps in a Lowland Dipterocarp Forest.” Insectes Sociaux 70 (December):29–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-022-00889-x.
Amin, Muhamad, Hussein Taha, Syifania Hanifah Samara, Anis Fitria, Nur Aini Muslichah, Laila Musdalifah, Olumide A. Odeyemi, Alimuddin Alimuddin, and Takaomi Arai. 2022. “Revealing Diets of Wild-Caught Ornate Spiny Lobster, Panulirus Ornatus, at Puerulus, Post-Puerulus and Juvenile Stages Using Environmental DNA (EDNA) Metabarcoding.” Aquaculture Reports 27 (December):101361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aqrep.2022.101361.
Jaafar, Salwana Md, Faizah Metali, Siti Nisa Syahzanani Nafiah, Nur E’zzati Supri, Nurhazimah Ahmad, David F. R. P. Burslem, and Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri. 2022. “Differential Impacts of Acacia Invasion on Nutrient Fluxes in Two Distinct Bornean Lowland Tropical Rain Forests.” Forests 13 (12): 2101. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13122101.
Tan, Ming Kai, Razy Japir, Arthur Y. C. Chung, Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul Wahab, and Tony Robillard. 2022. “Taxonomy and Bioacoustics of Scaly Crickets (Orthoptera, Mogoplistidae, Mogoplistinae) from Borneo and Singapore.” Zootaxa 5213 (2): 177–89. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5213.2.6.
Yusof, Norafiqah, May P. Y. Goh, and Norhayati Ahmad. 2022. “Evaluation of the Antidiabetic, Islet Protective and Beta-Cell Regenerative Effects of Tinospora Crispa (L.).” Natural Product Sciences 28 (3): 105–14. http://www.koreamed.org/SearchBasic.php?RID=2534101.
Luo, Wenji, Joeri S. Strijk, Megan Barstow, and Alison K. S. Wee. 2022. “The Role of Protected Areas in Tropical Tree Conservation Post-2020: A Case Study Using Threatened Dipterocarpaceae.” Biological Conservation 272 (August):109634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109634.
Shapcott, Alison, J. W. Ferry Slik, Roshanizah Rosli, and Rahayu S. Sukri. 2022. “Pinanga Palms Revisited 20 Years on: What Can Changes in Pinanga Species Populations Tell Us about Rainforest Understory Palm Persistence?” Journal of Tropical Ecology 38 (6): 351–61. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467422000256.
Akhtar, Hasan, Massimo Lupascu, and Rahayu S. Sukri. 2022. “Interactions between Microtopography, Root Exudate Analogues and Temperature Determine CO2 and CH4 Production Rates in Fire-Degraded Tropical Peat.” Soil Biology and Biochemistry 169 (June):108646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108646.
Azmey, Syakirah, Hussein Taha, Gunanti Mahasri, Muhamad Amin, Ahasan Habib, Min Pau Tan, and Takaomi Arai. 2022. “Population Genetic Structure of Marine Leech, Pterobdella Arugamensis in Indo-West Pacific Region.” Genes 13 (6): 956. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13060956.
Nafiah, Nisa S., Rahayu S. Sukri, Muhammad Y.S.M. Ya’akub, Salwana M. Jaafar, and Faizah Metali. 2022. “Contrasting Patterns of Woody Seedlings Diversity, Abundance and Community Composition in Bornean Heath and Peat Swamp Forests.” Mires and Peat 28 (10): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2021.MEH.StA.2160.
Addly, Adi A.M., Alexander R. Cobb, Rahayu S. Sukri, Salwana M. Jafar, Suhailah Isnin, Surin K. Thamilselvam, and Stefan H. Gӧdeke. 2022. “Is the Residual Ash Method Applicable to Tropical Peatlands? A Case Study from Brunei Darussalam.” Mires and Peat 28 (08): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2020.GDC.StA.2147.
Jaafar, Salwana Md, Faizah Metali, and Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri. 2022. “Acacia Invasion Differentially Impacts Soil Properties of Two Contrasting Tropical Lowland Forests in Brunei Darussalam.” Journal of Tropical Ecology, March, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467422000141.
Bouman, Roderick W., Paul J. A. Kebler, Ian R. H. Telford, Jeremy J. Bruhl, Joeri S. Strijk, Richard M. K. Saunders, Hans-Joachim Esser, Banessa Falcón-Hidalgo, and Peter C. Van Welzen. 2022. “A Revised Phylogenetic Classification of Tribe Phyllantheae (Phyllanthaceae).” Phytotaxa 540 (1): 1–100. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.540.1.1.
Si, Eliza Low Ying, Michael A. Chadwick, Thomas E. L. Smith, and Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri. 2022. “Evaluating Ex-Situ Rates of Carbon Dioxide Flux from Northern Borneo Peat Swamp Soils.” Experimental Results, January, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1017/exp.2022.2.