Dr. Ma. Niña Regina M. Quibod is a young researcher and currently working as a Special Research Assistant (Post-doctoral Fellow) at the Community Ecology and Conservation Group of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Yunnan, China). She is continuing her PhD work for her postdoc research.
“Ninya” graduated her Masters of Science in Wildlife Studies (major in Mammal Studies) in University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) where she received recognition in various honor societies such as Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society for Agriculture and Phi Sigma Biological Science Honor Society. As a MS graduate student, she volunteered in UPLB Museum of Natural History (MNH) and helped in various field surveys and specimen collection, processing and cataloguing, where she realized that she loved the smell of old and archived naphthalene balls in museum collections.
She finished her PhD in Ecology degree at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she looked into the specialization of mammalian herbivores using skull specimen from various museums in Asia and Europe. She is interested on the morphological diversification and specialization of mammalian skulls under dietary and climatic constraints.
Although she specializes in studying the ecology of mammals and considers herself as a “trait-based ecologists”, she is also an occasional birder and herpetologist. She joined in various biodiversity field surveys in her country.
PUBLICATIONS
Quibod M.N.R.M., Gelin U, van Langevelde F, Tomlinson KW. (2023). Diet-specific responses of skull traits to moisture gradients in bovids and cervids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199(4): 861-870. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad068
Gamalo, L.E.D., Cabrera, S.M.E., De Los Reyes, N.C.L., De Cadiz, A.E., Chavez Jr, J.B., Raganas, A.F.M., Quibod, M. N. R. M. (2023). Inventory of terrestrial vertebrate wildlife species in a private-owned forest patch in Tagum City, Mindanao, Philippines. Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity 24(2): 1104-1116. 10.13057/biodiv/d240250
Tanalgo, K.C., Tabora, J. A. G, Oliveira, H.F.M.O., Haelewaters, D., Beranek, C. T., Otálora-Ardila, A., Bernard, E., Gonçalves, F., Eriksson, A., Donnelly, M., Monzón González, J., Fernandez Ramos, H.F., Rivas, A.C., Webala, P.W., Deleva, S., Dalhoumi, R., Maula, J., Lizarro, D., Aguirre, L.F., Bouillard, N., Quibod, M. N. R. M., Barros, J., Turcios-Casco, M.A., Martínez, M., Ordoñez-Mazier, D.I., Orellana, J.A.S., Ordoñez-Trejo, E.J., Ordoñez, D., Chornelia, A., Lu, J.M., Xing, C., Baniya, S., Muylaert, R.L., Dias-Silva, L.H., Ruadreo, N., Hughes, A. DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves. (2022). Sci Data 9(155). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01234-4
Lucanas C.C., Quibod, M. N. R. M., Lit Jr., Ireneo L., Bicaldo, P.R.D., Larona, A.R. (2022). Cockroaches from caves in Samal Island, Philippines, with notes on the invasive Periplaneta americana (L.) (Blattodea: Blattidae). The Philippine Entomologist 36(1): 15-24. https://thephilippineentomologist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/TPE-V36-No.-1-January-June-2022.-Lucanas-et-al.-Periplaneta-on-Samal-Caves.-Draft-2.pdf
Quibod, M. N. R. M., Alcantara, K. N., Bechayda, N., Estropia, C. J., Guntinas, J., Obin, M. A., Raymundo, R., & Soniega, E. (2021). Terrestrial vertebrates in modified landscapes in northeastern Mindanao, Philippines. Journal of Animal Diversity, 3(3), 72-85. https://jad.lu.ac.ir/article-1-136-en.html
Quibod, M. N. R. M., Alviola, P. A., de Guia, A. P. O., Cuevas, V. C., Lit, I. L., & Pasion, B. O. (2019). Diversity and threats to cave-dwelling bats in a small island in the southern Philippines. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 12(4), 481–487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2019.06.001
Rosialda, P. B. R., Quibod, M. N. R. M., & Day, M. D. (2019). Preliminary study on the distribution of the introduced gall-forming fly, cecidochares connexa (Macquart) (Diptera: Tephritidae) for the biological control of the invasive alien weed chromolaena odorata (l.) R.M. King & H. Rob. (Asteraceae) in the Philipp. Philippine Journal of Science, 148(1), 185–192.
Quibod, M. N. R. M. & Sy, E. Y. (2018). Geographic Distribution: Kaloula pulchra: Philippines, Boracay Island. Herpetological Review 49(1): 69-70.
Arai, Satoru, Taniguchi, S., Aoki, K., Yoshikawa, Y., Kyuwa, S., Tanaka-Taya, K., Masangkay, J. S., Omatsu, T., Puentespina, R., Watanabe, S., Alviola, P., Alvarez, J., Eres, E., Cosico, E., Quibod, M. N. R. M., Morikawa, S., Yanagihara, R., & Oishi, K. (2016). Molecular phylogeny of a genetically divergent hantavirus harbored by the Geoffroy’s rousette (Rousettus amplexicaudatus), a frugivorous bat species in the Philippines. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 45, 26–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2016.08.008
Sy, E.Y., Cielo, K.L.S., Soniega, E.S., Hulog, C.Y., Bacalando, J.A.R., Quibod, M. N. R. M. (2016) Geographic Distribution: Kaloula pulchra: Philippines, Mindoro Island. Herpetological Review 47(2): 248.
Sano, K., Okazaki, S., Taniguchi, S., Masangkay, J. S., Puentespina, R., Eres, E., Cosico, E., Quibod, M. N. R. M., Kondo, T., Shimoda, H., Hatta, Y., Mitomo, S., Oba, M., Katayama, Y., Sassa, Y., Furuya, T., Nagai, M., Une, Y., Maeda, K., … Mizutani, T. (2015). Detection of a novel herpesvirus from bats in the Philippines. Virus Genes, 51(1), 136–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11262-015-1197-6
de Guia, A. P. O., & Quibod, M. N. R. M. (2014). Gut Analysis of Small Non-Volant Mammals of Mt. Makiling, Luzon Island, Philippines. Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 17(2), 63–68
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