A. J. D. Perera

University of Ruhuna · Department of Botany

Rice is a major source for micro-elements for the Sri Lankan population, across all agro-climatic zones. This current study was conducted to investigate the variation of the metal(loid)s and As speciation in rice grains collected from wet, intermediate and dry zones of Sri Lanka. Field rice (brown rice) and market rice (polished rice) samples were...

Carbon that is stored and sequestered in marine coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass meadows is termed as Blue Carbon, which plays an important role in the global carbon cycle and climate change mitigation. It has long been known that mangroves which are confined to tropical and subtropical latitudes, have higher rates o...

Early life of viviparous mangroves merely depends on the propagule and it can be assumed that the period and the degree of dependency could depend on the size and the intrinsic factors of the propagule as well as on the edaphic and environmental factors in which the seedlings are growing. However scientific studies on the propagule dependency of ma...