Primate Behavioural Ecology Research Group
2025
Lee, S., Oktaviani, R., Yi, Y.* Choi, A., Mardiastuti, A., & Choe J. C. (2025). Developmental Changes in
Feeding Behavior and Maternal Influences in Wild Javan Gibbons (Hylobates moloch). Int J Primatol.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-025-00493-3
Borzee, A., Jang, Y., Othman, S. N., Groffen, J., Maslova, I. V., Purevdorj, Z., Yasumiba, K., Shimada, T., Yi Y. ... & Dufresnes, C. (2025). Integrating phylogeographic and phenotypic evidence to delimit deep evolutionary lineages in the Dryophytes japonicus species complex, with an assessment of their conservation needs. Herpetozoa, 38, 25-42. DOI 10.3897/herpetozoa.38.e137747
2024
Yi, Y.*, Purevdorj, Z., Maslova, I., Jang, Y., & Borze e, A. (2024). When fleeing matters: differences in escape behaviours of three northeast Asian anurans. Asian Journal of Herpetology 15(1): 1-8. DOI: 10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2023.0009
2023
Yi, Y.*, Matrastuti, A. & Choe, J. C. (2023). How to be a good partner and father? A role of adult males in pair bond maintenance and parental care in Javan gibbons. Proceedings Royal Society B. 29020230950. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0950
Choi, A., Yi, Y., Jae C. Choe., & Mardiastuti A. (2023). Intra-group competition and social dynamics regarding dispersal and maturation in wild Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch). Sci Rep 13, 8285. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34913-2
Lappan, S., Oktaviani, R., Choi, A., Ham, S., Jang, H., Kim, S. Yi, Y., Mardiastuti, A. & Choe, J. C. (2023). Demography of a stable gibbon population in high-elevation forest on Java. In H Chatterjee, S.
Cheyne, & P. F. Fan. (eds.) Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2022
Lee. S, Ryu. H, Yi. Y.*, Jang. H., Gye. H., Choi. A., Choe. H., Lee. B, & Choe. J. C. (2022) The effects of visitors and social isolation from peer on the behavior of mixed-species pair of captive gibbons. Scientific reports. 12, 19706. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23196-8
Yi Y.¹*, Choi A¹., Lee S., Ham S., Jang H., Oktaviani R., Mardiastuti A., Choe J.C. (2022). Transient co-singing of offspring and mothers in non-duetting Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10:910260. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.910260
Caspar, K. R. & Yi, Y. (2022). Hylobates moloch (Primates: Hylobatidae), Mammalian species. 54:1021(1-19), seac006, https://doi.org/10.1093/mspecies/seac006
Yi, Y.*, Ham, S., Oktaviani, R., Dewi, M.C., Nur, M., Mardiastuti, A. & Choe, J.C. (2022). Cases of fatal electrocution of the endangered Javan Gibbons (Mammalia: Primates: Hylobatidae) by power lines. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 14(5): 20964–2096. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.7758.14.5.20964-20969
Prasad, V.K., Chuang, MF., Das, A., Ramesh, K., , Dinesh, K.P. & Borzée, A. (2022). Coexisting good neighbours: acoustic and calling microhabitat niche partitioning in two elusive syntopic species of balloon frogs, Uperodon systoma and U. globulosus (Anura: Microhylidae) and potential of individual vocal signatures. BMC Zoology, 7(27). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-022-00132-x
2021
Bempah, G., Lu, C. & .* (2021). Anthropogenic Food Utilization and Seasonal Difference in Diet of Cercopithecus lowei at a Community Protected Forest in Ghana. Diversity, 13(610). https://doi.org/10.3390/d13120610
Kim, K., , Woo, D., Park, T. & Song, E. (2021). Factors influencing roadkill hotspots in the Republic of Korea. Proceedings of National Institute of Ecology, 2(4): 274-278.
Andersen, D., , Borzée, A., Kim, K., Moon, K., Kim, J. Kim, T. & Jang, Y. (2021). Use of a spatially explicit individual-based model to predict population trajectories and habitat connectivity for a reintroduced ursid. Oryx, 56(2): 298-307. doi:10.1017/S0030605320000447
Yi, Y. & Borzée, A. (2021). Human population and efficient conservation: Are humans playing ostriches and rabbits? Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 14: 144-145.
2020
Messenger, K., Dahn, H., Andersen, D., Shin, Y., Yi, Y., Bae, Y. & Borzée, A. (2020). Bufo stejnegeri (Korean Water Toad). Geographical distribution. Herpetological Review, 51(3): 532
Yi, Y., Fichtel, C., Ham, S., Jang, H., & Choe, J. C. (2020). Fighting for what it’s worth: participation and outcome of inter-group encounters in a pair-living primate, the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74(8), 1-15.
Borzée, A., Messenger, K.R., Chae, S., Andersen, D., Groffen, J., Kim, Y.I., An, J., Othman, S.N., Ri, K., Nam, T.Y. and Bae, Y., Ren, JL., Li, JT., Chuang, MF., Yi, Y., Shin, Y., Kwon, T., Jang, Y., & Min, MS. (2020). Yellow sea mediated
segregation between North East Asian Dryophytes species. Plos One, 15(6), p.e0234299.
Kim, M., Nguyen, H., Yi, Y., Ahn, J., Kim, Y. E., Jang, S., Kim, S., Kong, S. & Borzée, A. (2020) Policy recommendation on whaling, trade and watching of cetaceans (Mammalia Cetacea) in the Republic of Korea, Biodiversity Journal, 11(1): 255-258
Yi, Y., Kim, Y., Hikmat, A., & Choe, J. C. (2020). Information transfer through food from parents to offspring in wild Javan gibbons. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-9.
Yi, Y., Fichtel, C., Kim, E., & Choe, J. C. (2020). Impacts of inter-group interactions on intra-group behavioral changes in Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch). International journal of Primatology, 1-19.
Borzée, A., Yi, Y., Maynard, R. J. (2020) Amphibians of Selva Viva Nature Reserve, Napo Province, Ecuador, https://fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/guides/guide/1213
2019
Messenger, R.K., Yi, Y., & Borzée A. (2019). Ultra Violet biofluorescence in the Swallowtail butterfly’s caterpillar (Papilio xuthus). Front Ecol Environ, 17(8) : 444
Borzée, A., Struecker, M. Y., Yi, Y., Kim, D., & Kim, H. (2019). Time for Korean wildlife conservation. Science, 363(6432), 1161-1162.
Borzée, A., Yi, Y., Andersen, D., Kim. K., Moon. K-S., Kim, J-J., Kim, T-W., & Jang, Y. (2019). First dispersal event of a reintroduced Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in Korea. Russian J. Theriol. 18(1) : 51-55.
Bae Y., Kong S., Yi Y., Jang Y. & Borzée A. (2019) Additional threat to Hynobius salamander eggs: predation by loaches (Misgurnus sp.) in agricultural wetlands. Animal Biology, 1(aop), 1-11.
2017
Borzée, A., Yi, Y., Kusrini, M. D., & Jang, Y. (2017). Habitat use by the Javan caecilian (Ichthyophis hypocyaneus). Korean Journal of Herpetology, 8, 15-18.
2016
Borzée, A., Kim, J. Y., Da Cunha, M. A. M., Lee, D., Sin, E., Oh, S., Yi, Y. & Jang, Y. (2016). Temporal and spatial differentiation in microhabitat use: Implications for reproductive isolation and ecological niche specification. Integrative zoology, 11(5), 375-387.
2015
Yi, Y., M. Shekelle, Y. Jang & J. C. Choe. (2015). Discriminating tarsier acoustic forms from Sulawesi's northern peninsula with spectral analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 156(S6):329.

