1. To determine the historical biogeographic pattern of the macro-invertebrates in relation to the Indo-Burmese and Sundaland regions.
2. To analyses the evolutionary framework based on the macro-invertebrates, cryptic speciation due to the regional endemism and geographic isolation across the Indo-Burma and Sundaland regions.
3. To analyses ecosystem services from the major soil faunas (land snails, millipedes, centipedes and earthworms).
4. To develop aquaculture of the littoral oligochaete earthworm of the genus Pontodrilus Perrier, 1874
