Greater Kenyir Landscapes

Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah is a professor at the School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. He received his PhD in zoology from the University of Queensland, Australia; MSc and BSc from the West Virginia University, USA, and Diploma in Forestry from the Institut Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. He was elected and inducted as a Fellow in the Academy of Science Malaysia on the 8 June 2013; and DIMP from the Royal Highness the Sultan of Pahang. His research discipline is in biology with specialisation in zoology, molecular ecology, biodiversity and protected area management. In 1970s to 1990s he studied on the endangered Sumatran rhinos. In late 1990s he studied in Borneo on the wildlife diversity, distribution, population, ecology, and species conservation and their natural habitats. From 2000 to 2014 he used molecular methods to study on the ecology, biogeography and evolution of mammals in Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. From 2011 he received grants tostudy on zoonoses, genome and metagenomic of primates. From 2014 onwards he worked in the Greater Kenyir, on the canopy wildlife distribution patterns in the dipterocarp forest, wetlands and islands on the east coast of Malaysia.

Aqilah Mohammad is a senior lecturer who teaches Mycology at the School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. She received her PhD in Biological Sciences from the Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom and MSc degree in Conservation Biology from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia. Underlying themes of her research include fungal ecology, biodiversity, identification, fungal interaction, fungal fruiting phenology and ethnomycology. Her current research mainly focusing on the utilisation of wild mushrooms for food and medicine by indigenous communities in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. She is also working on an identification of edible bolete fungus found growing nearbyMelaleuca trees in Setiu Wetlands, Terengganu.

Nor Zalipah Mohamed is a senior lecturer at the School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. She received her bachelor degree in Zoology from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia and MSc degree in Environmental Biology from the same university. For her MSc degree, she studied the edge effect on the non-volant small mammal's community in Perak, Malaysia. She worked on bat pollination of mangroves called Sonneratia in Malaysia, and obtained her PhD. degree from University of Bristol, UK. Her current works is mainly on plant-animal interactions, particularly in pollination and seed dispersal.

Muhamad Safiih Lola is an Associate Professor at the School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. He received his PhD in Econometrics Modelling from the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia; MSc in Applied Statistics from the Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia and BEc (Honors) in International Trade and Business from Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia. He started his career as a Statistician and Mathematics lecturer in 2001 and has over 15 years of experience in applied statistics, econometrics and hybrid modelling with specialisation in forecasting, eco-tourism, total economic value and loyalty program. He has obtained research grants on projects involving fuzzy parametric and fuzzy nonparametric sample selection models, study on cost of living particularly on loyalty and membership programs and also studies in dynamic modelling.