Sri Lanka ranks second among the ten countries most affected by extreme weather events recorded since 1998 according to the Climate Risk Index 2019. The Northern and Eastern provinces are among the most vulnerable to impacts ...

Kakkaitheevu is part of the Jaffna lagoon and is known for its fish production. The area consists of sewerage and solid waste disposal plant. The objective of the study was to investigate the changes in selected physical, ...

The spleen is the largest secondary lymphoid organ in the body and it has a complex cell composition because of the immunocytes' maturity and settling down. Changes in the composition of immunocytes are critical to immune ...

This study evaluates the fyke net fishery and population parameters of shrimps inhabiting in the Jaffna lagoon. Catch effort and shrimp morphometric data were collected at Columbuththurai landing site from August 2018 to ...

The Russell’s viper is a venomous snake with greater medical importance that belongs to the family: Viperidae. The reptile shows discontinuous distribution over Southeast Asian regions, and also shows diverse clinical ...

Mangrove ecosystem is one of the most productive ecosystems with a hard environment that supports the survival of both terrestrial and aquatic inhabitants of various vertebrates and invertebrates including insects. Insects ...

Lobsters are one of the economically important marine crustacean groups occupying variety of habitats. They have a great demand in the domestic market as a delicacy and is a foreign exchange earner for the country. In Sri ...