Sea urchins play a key role in rocky shore habitats as grazers. They form urchin fronts and extensively graze on macro algae resulting in regions of barrens and restructuring the habitat. The population status of ...

Carbon accumulation/sequestration by plants is a major function that contributes to removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and capacity to perform it depends on the plant species and environmental conditions under ...

The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between coastal vegetation structure and its capacity to resist wave energy. Thickness of tsunami sand deposits at Rekawa, Kalametiya and Kirinda were measured ...

The Negombo estuary brush park fishery in Sri Lanka was investigated from June 1998 to March 1999. The mean fish yield (all species) in the fishery was 12.46 t ha?1 yr?1. Fin fish species formed about 91% of the yield and ...