This study aims to assess the relationship between surface water quality and the land-use of an urban catchment named ‘Kalu Oya and Mudun Ela catchment’ located in the western province, Sri Lanka. Ten judgmental sampling ...

The present study was planned to assess the potentiality of replacing clay soil with rice husk ash (RHA), in manufacturing of compressed earth blocks (CEBs) while maintaining the required mechanical properties of CEBs. ...

Naturally occurring microbiota in mosquito larval habitats are among biotic factors which affect the population dynamics of developing larvae. Many microbiota species serve as food items for vector mosquito larvae, and ...

Multi-biomarker approach is recognised as a complementary tool for environmental monitoring studies to better appraise how pollutants affect ecosystems. This study examined histological alterations in the liver tissues and ...

Tropical freshwater ecosystems are increasingly influenced by chemical stressors including heavy metals posing threats to biodiversity. Adequate ecotoxicity data are not available for native tropical freshwater species ...

Consumption of fi sh contaminated with toxic heavy metals is a threat to human health. Cadmium and arsenic are suspected as potential risk factors for chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu), which is highly ...

The present study, was conducted in an urban wetland system within a Ramsar wetland city in Sri Lanka to study the effectiveness of using the Geostatitical and multivariate statistical techniques together with ...

Groundwater is a vital resource in the northern region of Sri Lanka, as it is the only water resource used for domestic, agricultural and industrial activities in that area. However, due to excessive usage of synthetic ...

Mangrove ecosystems are identified as important blue carbon ecosystems because they play an important role in carbon sequestration among the coastal ecosystems. .e present study was conducted to develop an allometric model ...

Tetraponera modesta (F. Smith, 1860) is herewith recorded for the first time from Sri Lanka. With this addition number of known Sri Lankan species for the genus becomes five. The other four species are T. allaborans (Walker, ...