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SHAWN CHENG & LAURENCE G. KIRTON (2007)
Table 1. Numbers of research dissertations and articles on entomology and insect diversity (in
parentheses) in the institutions surveyed.
Institutions Faculties Years No. of
examined dissertations /
articles
*
Universities:
Universiti Malaya Institute of Biological Science 1995-2004 83 (21)
Universiti Putra Forestry & Agriculture 1991-2001 144 (2)
Malaysia
Faculties
Universiti Kebangsaan School of Bioscience 1995-2004 128 (75)
Malaysia
Institutes:
Forest Research Institute – 1964-1999 32 (2)
Malaysia † Total 387 (100)
*
All counts for universities were based on dissertations. † For the Forest Research Institute Malaysia,
counts were based on both dissertations and scientific articles from projects conducted in the Pasoh
Field Station’s 50-hectare plot (Soepadmo et al. 2000).
Control
Diversity
Biology
Field of study
Ecology
Taxonomy
Environmental monitoring
Bioinformatics
Forensics
Biochemistry
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Num ber of dissertations / articles
Fig. 1. Numbers of dissertations/articles written on different entomological research areas in
the institutions surveyed.
In addition to the areas of entomological research mentioned above, there are also new and
emerging areas of entomological research, such as environmental monitoring using insects as
indicator species, bioinformatics, forensics and insect biochemistry. Together, they contributed
to a very small number (eight) of the 387 dissertations, reports and articles written, among the
four institutions surveyed.
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