Aboveground biomass and carbon stock in tropical forest play an important role in global carbon cycle. Assessment of biomass and carbon pool in different forest stands may provide information in making decisions about the ...

Selection of rice varieties with greater allelopathic potential can be used as a tool in sustainable weed management. Exploitation and implementation of this technology in weed management has been considered as ecologically ...

The U.S. has dramatically altered its wood product imports and exports during the past few years, and at present, it is the second largest wood product importer in the world. Hence, an understanding of market structures, ...

The results of VOC monitoring in a residential area abutting a petrochemical complex and the influence of causative parameters on the concentration is discussed in this paper. The monitored data reveals that about 21 ...

Large scale clearing of natural forests for human settlements as well as in the form of tea, rubber and cinnamon plantations resulted forest fragmentation in most natural ecosystems in the wet zone of Sri Lanka which ...

A mosquito survey was carried out for 8 months between October 2009 and May 2010 in 12 randomly selected urban (6) and semi-urban (6) areas in the Colombo District of Sri Lanka. Thirty eight mosquito species were identified ...

Neem (Azadirachta indica A. juss), is known to possess a wide range of pharmacological properties and is thus commercially exploitable. Apart from its medicinal potential, a considerable progress has been achieved regarding ...

Carbon dioxide has gained lot of attention in recent past as a greenhouse gas, and therefore it has a potential to affect the climate pattern of the world. Several anthropogenic activities are known to be responsible for ...

This study investigates the effects of Cadmium (Cd) on fry of the Mozambique Tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus using standard toxicity tests. Fry were repeatedly exposed to five concentrations (0.002 – 2.0 mgl-1) of Cd and ...