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Co-occurrence of multiple mycotoxins in dry chilli (Capsicum annum L.) samples from the markets of Sri Lanka and Belgium Universiteit Gent
Igniting food assemblages in Sri Lanka: Ritual cooking to regenerate the world and interrelations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Food, human beings, ritual events and the world exchange components while their interaction alters their heterogeneous constitution as an assemblage. I intend to revise and vitalise assemblage theory by foregrounding the role fire plays in shaping exchange and transformation by the very process of 'cooking'. I elaborate these modifications and alchemic transformations of existing theory by exploring the ritual cooking of coconut milk and the ...
Risk assessment of mycotoxins and predictive mycology in Sri Lankan spices : chilli and pepper Universiteit Gent
Mycological quality and mycotoxin contamination of Sri Lankan peppers (Piper nigrum L.) and subsequent exposure assessment Universiteit Gent
Assessing the Influence of Anthropogenic Land-Use Changes on Bird Diversity and Feeding Guilds-A Case Study of Kalametiya Lagoon (Southern Sri Lanka) Universiteit Hasselt Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Kalametiya Lagoon, a highly threatened Sri Lankan wetland, has undergone drastic hydrological changes in recent decades, due to an upstream irrigation project. These changes led to the invasion of the lagoon water by monospecific Sonneratia caseolaris mangrove stands and Typha angustifolia reedbeds. As Kalametiya has been a nationally recognized bird sanctuary since 1984, this invasion is expected to have brought significant changes upon local ...
The systematics and evolution of the Sri Lankan rainforest land snail Corilla Universiteit Antwerpen
The stylommatophoran land-snail genus Corilla is endemic to Sri Lanka and India's Western Ghats. On the basis of habitat distribution and shell morphology, the 10 extant Sri Lankan species fall into two distinct groups, lowland and montane. Here, we use phylogenetic analyses of restriction-site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) data and ancestral-state reconstructions of habitat association and shell morphology to clarify the systematics and ...
Climate and intertidal zonation drive variability in the carbon stocks of Sri Lankan mangrove forests Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sri Lanka is at the forefront of global mangrove conservation. It is the first country to officially protect all its remaining mangrove forests and has embarked on an ambitious plan to restore 10,000 ha of wetland during the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. One incentive for this conservation effort is a recognition, based on research mostly done elsewhere, of the importance of mangroves for carbon sequestration and storage. ...
Exploring the shell-based taxonomy of the Sri Lankan land snail **Corilla** H. and A. Adams, 1855 (Pulmonata: Corillidae) using mitochondrial DNA Universiteit Antwerpen
The land-snail genus Corilla is endemic to Sri Lanka and India's Western Ghats. The ten extant Sri Lankan species belong to two distinct shell forms that are associated respectively with lowland and montane rainforest. We here present the first molecular phylogenetic analysis for Corilla. Our dataset includes nine nominal Sri Lankan species and is based on three mitochondrial genes (CO1, ND1 and 16S). Although the deeper nodes in the trees are ...
A social network analysis of mangrove management stakeholders in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The sustainable management of complex social-ecological systems (SES) typically requires coordination and collaboration between various groups of stakeholders. Yet, research on collaborative stakeholder networks and their linkages with sustainable mangrove management strategies is lacking in Sri Lanka. This study presents a social network analysis (SNA) of mangrove management stakeholders and their perceptions of both existing and preferred ...