Thilina Surasinghe

About

I am a wildlife ecologist with specialization in landscape ecology and conservation biology. I earned my PhD from Clemson University, USA with my research focus on the impacts of current and historical land uses on stream ecosystems. My research focuses on community organization and biotic homogenization along urban-rural gradients; landscape-scale conservation planning; conservation of endangered wildlife; revision of environmental policies; wetland restoration, and ecology of freshwater ecosystems.

Work

Bridgewater State University
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Rhodes College
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Assistant Professor

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Gustavus Adolphus College
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Clemson University
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Education

Clemson University
United States of America

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PhD

University of Colombo
Sri Lanka

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BS in Zoology

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Standardized NEON organismal data for biodiversity research

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Flagship plant communities in restored wetlands exhibited rapid vegetation recovery and substantial gain in surface-water extents

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Harvard Dataverse

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Leveraging Phenology to Assess Seasonal Variations of Plant Communities for Mapping Dynamic Ecosystems

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Remote Sensing

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Restored wetlands show rapid vegetation recovery and substantial surface‐water expansion

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Restoration Ecology

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Temporal Shifts in Biological Community Structure in Response to Wetland Restoration: Implications for Wetland Biodiversity Conservation and Management

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Diversity

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Temporal Shifts in Biological Community Structure in Response to Wetland Restoration: Implications for Wetland Biodiversity Conservation and Management

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Diversity

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Harnessing the full potential of drones for fieldwork

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BioScience

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Identification of Priority Areas for Conservation of Threatened Agamid Lizards of Sri Lanka Using Species Distribution Modeling

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Integrative Conservation

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Leveraging Phenology to Assess Seasonal Variations of Plant Communities for Mapping Dynamic Ecosystems

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Remote Sensing

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Systematic review and best practices for drone remote sensing of invasive plants

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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Systematic review and best practices for drone remote sensing of invasive plants

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

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Nature communications

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Native and exotic plant invasions vary across habitat types and anthropogenic disturbances in a tourism-heavy protected area

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Biological Invasions

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Datasets: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

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OpenAlex

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Native and exotic plant invasions vary across habitat types and anthropogenic disturbances in a tourism-heavy protected area

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Biological Invasions

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Datasets: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

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OpenAlex

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Datasets: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

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OpenAlex

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Datasets: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

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OpenAlex

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Datasets: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

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OpenAlex

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A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three-dimensional structural diversity

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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

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Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance

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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

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Integrating forest structural diversity measurement into ecological research

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Ecosphere

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Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial taxa worldwide

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bioRxiv

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Riparian Buffers as a Critical Landscape Feature: Insights for Riverscape Conservation and Policy Renovations

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Diversity

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Native and exotic plant invasions vary across habitat types and anthropogenic disturbances in a tourism-heavy protected area

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Biological Invasions

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Silky dogwood (Swida amomum) seed dispersal by freshwater turtles

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American Journal of Botany

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Silky dogwood (Swida amomum) seed dispersal by freshwater turtles

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American Journal of Botany

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Standardized NEON organismal data for biodiversity research

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Ecosphere

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Standardized NEON organismal data for biodiversity research

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Ecosphere

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Bioclimatic Envelopes for Two Bat Species from a Tropical Island: Insights on Current and Future Distribution from Ecological Niche Modeling

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Diversity

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Bioclimatic Envelopes for Two Bat Species from a Tropical Island: Insights on Current and Future Distribution from Ecological Niche Modeling

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Diversity

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Bioclimatic Envelopes for Two Bat Species from a Tropical Island: Insights on Current and Future Distribution from Ecological Niche Modeling

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Diversity

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Riparian Buffers as a Critical Landscape Feature: Insights for Riverscape Conservation and Policy Renovations

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Diversity

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Riparian Buffers as a Critical Landscape Feature: Insights for Riverscape Conservation and Policy Renovations

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Diversity

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Biophysical predictors of spatial variation in abundance and population dynamics of an invasive decapod

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Marine Ecology

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Community stability is related to animal diversity change

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Ecosphere

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Diversity of herpetofauna at restored cranberry bogs: A comparative survey of herpetofaunal diversity at a restored wetland in comparison to a retired cranberry bog to assess the restoration success

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Herpetological Journal

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Expanding NEON biodiversity surveys with new instrumentation and machine learning approaches

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Expanding NEON biodiversity surveys with new instrumentation and machine learning approaches

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Ecosphere

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DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN SRI LANKA: A CAUTIONARY NOTE FOR THE FUTURE OF RANGERS

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Parks

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Defenders of wildlife conservation in Sri Lanka: a cautionary note for the future of rangers

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PARKS

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Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community

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Ecosphere

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Distribution, Habitat Associations and Conservation Status of the Sri Lanka Frogmouth Batrachostomus moniliger

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Ardeola

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Ecological Forecasting Initiative: NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge documentation V1.0 ...

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Multi-Decadal Forest-Cover Dynamics in the Tropical Realm: Past Trends and Policy Insights for Forest Conservation in Dry Zone of Sri Lanka

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Forests

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Challenges in biodiversity conservation in a highly modified tropical river basin in Sri Lanka

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Water (Switzerland)

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Round-eared tube-nosed bat (Murina cyclotis) from Southwest Sri Lanka

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Taprobanica

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Chocolate pipistrelle (Hypsugo affinis) from Hantana, Sri Lanka, after 87 years

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Taprobanica

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Chocolate pipistrelle (Hypsugo affinis) from Hantana, Sri Lanka, after 87 years

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Taprobanica

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What can we learn from wildlife sightings during the COVID-19 global shutdown?

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Lesser large-footed Bat (Myotis hasseltii) from Southwest Sri Lanka

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Taprobanica

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Lesser large-footed Bat (Myotis hasseltii) from Southwest Sri Lanka

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Taprobanica

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What can we learn from wildlife sightings during the COVID‐19 global shutdown?

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Ecosphere

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new species of the genus ceratophora gray, 1835 (reptilia: agamidae) from a lowland rainforest in sri lanka, with insights on rostral appendage evolution in sri lankan agamid lizards

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Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

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Round-eared tube-nosed bat (Murina cyclotis) from Southwest Sri Lanka

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Taprobanica

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What can we learn from wildlife sightings during the COVID-19 global shutdown?

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Ecosphere

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Multi-Decadal Forest-Cover Dynamics in the Tropical Realm: Past Trends and Policy Insights for Forest Conservation in Dry Zone of Sri Lanka

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Forests

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Multi-decadal forest-cover dynamics in the tropical realm: Past trends and policy insights for forest conservation in Dry Zone of Sri Lanka

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Forests

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Egestion of plant propagules by turtles in a small Massachusetts river

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Journal of Natural History

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Challenges in Biodiversity Conservation in a Highly Modified Tropical River Basin in Sri Lanka

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Water

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REPRODUCTIVE ASPECTS OF RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM (ERICACEAE) IN AUBURN, MASSACHUSETTS

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Rhodora

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REPRODUCTIVE ASPECTS of RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM (ERICACEAE) in AUBURN, MASSACHUSETTS

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Rhodora

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Description of a new species of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Nilgala Savannah forest, Uva Province of Sri Lanka

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Zootaxa

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Description of a new species of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Nilgala Savannah forest, Uva Province of Sri Lanka ...

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Integrative taxonomy reveals six new species of day geckos of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Reptilia:Squamata: Gekkonidae) from geographically-isolated hill forests in Sri Lanka

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Vertebrate Zoology

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Population Decline of the Invasive Asian Shore Crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus) and Dynamics of Associated Intertidal Invertebrates on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

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Northeastern Naturalist

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Reappraisal of herpetofauna recorded from jaffna peninsula in northern Sri Lanka with remarks on conservation, diversity, and distribution

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Russian Journal of Herpetology

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Three new species of day geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) from isolated granite cave habitats in Sri Lanka

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Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

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Variable plastron coloration of the eastern painted turtles Chrysemys picta picta in a single locality of south-eastern Massachusetts, USA

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Herpetological Bulletin

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A new record of the rare Hardwicke’s Woolly Bat Kerivoula hardwickii (Horsefield, 1824) (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) after 23 years from a lowland rainforest of Sri Lanka

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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A new record of Kerivoula hardwickii (Horsefield, 1824) (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) after 23 years from a lowland rainforests of Sri Lanka

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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Chiropteran diversity in the peripheral areas of the Maduru-Oya National Park in Sri Lanka: Insights for conservation and management

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ZooKeys

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Ecological and zoological study of endemic Sri Lankan keelback (Balanophis ceylonensis): With implications for its conservation

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Vertebrate Zoology

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Evidence of aquatic plant seed dispersal by eastern painted turtles (Chrysemys picta picta) in Massachusetts, USA

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Aquatic Botany

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Gerarda prevostiana (Serpentes: Homalopsidae) in Sri Lanka: Distribution and behaviour

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Herpetological Bulletin

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Figure 3 from: Edirisinghe G, Surasinghe T, Gabadage D, Botejue M, Perera K, Madawala M, Weerakoon D, Karunarathna S (2018) Chiropteran diversity in the peripheral areas of the Maduru-Oya National Park in Sri Lanka: insights for conservation and management. ZooKeys 784: 139-162. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.784.25562

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A new record of the rare Hardwicke's Woolly Bat Kerivoula hardwickii (Horsefield, 1824) (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) after 23 years from a lowland rainforest of Sri Lanka

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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<b>Impact of vehicular traffic on vertebrate fauna in Horton plains and Yala national parks of Sri Lanka: some implications for conservation and management</b>

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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Impact of vehicular traffic on vertebrate fauna in Horton plains and Yala national parks of Sri Lanka: Some implications for conservation and management

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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<b>Impact of vehicular traffic on vertebrate fauna in Horton plains and Yala national parks of Sri Lanka: some implications for conservation and management</b>

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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Distribution, habitat associations and conservation implications of Sri Lankan freshwater terrapins outside the protected area network

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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

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Distribution, habitat associations and conservation implications of Sri Lankan freshwater terrapins outside the protected area network

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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

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Distribution, habitat associations and conservation implications of Sri Lankan freshwater terrapins outside the protected area network

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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

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Ecological and behavioural traits of the Sri Lankan water monitor (Varanus salvator) in an urban landscape of Western Province, Sri Lanka

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Marine and Freshwater Research

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Ecological and behavioural traits of the Sri Lankan water monitor (Varanus salvator) in an urban landscape of Western Province, Sri Lanka

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Marine and Freshwater Research

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Ecological and behavioural traits of the Sri Lankan water monitor (Varanus salvator) in an urban landscape of Western Province, Sri Lanka

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Marine and Freshwater Research

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Ecology and demography of the Critically Endangered Kandian torrent toad Adenomus kandianus: A long-lost endemic species of Sri Lanka

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ORYX

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<b>Impact of vehicular traffic on vertebrate fauna in Horton plains and Yala national parks of Sri Lanka: some implications for conservation and management</b>

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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Ecology and demography of the Critically Endangered Kandian torrent toad Adenomus kandianus: a long-lost endemic species of Sri Lanka

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Oryx

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Natural history and conservation of haly's tree skink (Dasia haliana) in dry zone forests of Sri Lanka

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Herpetological Conservation and Biology

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Ecology and demography of the Critically Endangered Kandian torrent toad Adenomus kandianus: a long-lost endemic species of Sri Lanka

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Oryx

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Natural history and conservation of haly’s tree skink (Dasia haliana) in dry zone forests of Sri Lanka

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Herpetological Conservation and Biology

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Avifaunal diversity in the peripheral areas of the Maduruoya National Park in Sri Lanka: With conservation and management implications

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Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity

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Avifaunal diversity in the peripheral areas of the Maduruoya National Park in Sri Lanka: With conservation and management implications

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Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity

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Avifaunal diversity in the peripheral areas of the Maduruoya National Park in Sri Lanka: With conservation and management implications

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Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity

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Importance of Riparian Forest Buffers in Conservation of Stream Biodiversity: Responses to Land Uses by Stream-Associated Salamanders across Two Southeastern Temperate Ecoregions

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Journal of Herpetology

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Importance of riparian forest buffers in conservation of stream biodiversity: Responses to land uses by stream-associated salamanders across two southeastern temperate ecoregions

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Journal of Herpetology

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Importance of Riparian Forest Buffers in Conservation of Stream Biodiversity: Responses to Land Uses by Stream-Associated Salamanders across Two Southeastern Temperate Ecoregions

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Journal of Herpetology

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Dietary habits of Varanus salvator salvator in Sri Lanka with a new record of predation on an introduced clown knifefish, Chitala ornata

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Herpetological Bulletin

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Dietary habits of Varanus salvator salvator in Sri Lanka with a new record of predation on an introduced clown knifefish, Chitala ornata

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Herpetological Bulletin

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Ghost of land-use past in the context of current land cover: Evidence from salamander communities in streams of Blue Ridge and Piedmont ecoregions

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Canadian Journal of Zoology

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Using Collaboration Between English and Biology to Teach Scientific Writing and Communication

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Journal of College Science Teaching

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Using Collaboration Between English and Biology to Teach Scientific Writing and Communication

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Journal of College Science Teaching

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Ghost of land-use past in the context of current land cover: Evidence from salamander communities in streams of Blue Ridge and Piedmont ecoregions

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Canadian Journal of Zoology

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Morphology and allometry suggest multiple origins of rostral appendages in Sri Lankan agamid lizards

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Journal of Zoology

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Morphology and allometry suggest multiple origins of rostral appendages in Sri Lankan agamid lizards

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Journal of Zoology

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Use of threat-analysis to assess the effects of land development on biodiversity in a Blue Ridge-Piedmont landscape

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Journal of Conservation Planning

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Using eBird to integrate citizen science into an undergraduate ecology field laboratory

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Bioscene

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Using eBird to integrate citizen science into an undergraduate ecology field laboratory

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Bioscene

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Major issues in threat analysis and resolving such problems: an addendum to the GAP analysis.

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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The Effects of Climate Change on Global Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems

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TAPROBANICA: The Journal of Asian Biodiversity

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General Ecology and Habitat Selectivity of Fresh Water Fishes of the Rawan Oya, Kandy, Sri Lanka

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Sabaragamuwa University Journal

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The Effects of Climate Change on Global Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems

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TAPROBANICA: The Journal of Asian Biodiversity

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General Ecology and Habitat Selectivity of Fresh Water Fishes of the Rawan Oya, Kandy, Sri Lanka

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Sabaragamuwa University Journal

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Birds of Sabaragamuwa University campus, Buttala, Sri Lanka

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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Birds of Sabaragamuwa University campus, Buttala, Sri Lanka

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Journal of Threatened Taxa

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Diversity, Threats and Conservation of Herpetofauna in and around the Eastern Sinharaja

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Sabaragamuwa University Journal

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Diversity, Threats and Conservation of Herpetofauna in and around the Eastern Sinharaja

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Sabaragamuwa University Journal

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THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON GLOBAL WILDLIFE AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS

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Taprobanica

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Conservation and distribution status of amphibian fauna in sri lanka

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Biodiversity

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Conservation and distribution status of amphibian fauna in Sri Lanka

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Biodiversity

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Conservation and distribution status of amphibian fauna in Sri Lanka

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Biodiversity

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Conservation and distribution status of amphibian fauna in Sri Lanka

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Biodiversity

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Conservation overview of herpetofauna of Sinharaja Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka

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Zoos’ Print Journal

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Conservation overview of herpetofauna of Sinharaja Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka

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Zoos' Print Journal

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Conservation overview of herpetofauna of Sinharaja Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka

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Zoos' Print Journal

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Conservation overview of herpetofauna of Sinharaja Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka

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Zoos Print Journal

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