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BD Madurapperuma,KAJM Kuruppuarachchi
This study evaluates multi-year changes of vegetation in the Sinharaja Man and the Biosphere (MAB) reserve using mappable vegetation related indices viz., Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Burn Index (BI). Land-cover changes in the Sinhar...
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B. D. Madurapperuma,P. G. Oduor,K. A. J. M. Kuruppuarachchi,D. N. N. Wijayawardene,J. U. Munasinghe
Repeated slash and burn cultivation creates wasteland with thorny shrubs, which then takes a long time to become secondary forests through serial stages of succession. Assisted natural regeneration through silvicultural management is a useful restoration...
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K. A. J. M. Kuruppuarachchi,G. Seneviratne,B. D. Madurapperuma
Fine roots in forest soils have important implications for global carbon (C) balance, but processesunderlying this C sink are not well understood. This study evaluates year round dynamics of fine roots ina tropical dry mixed evergreen forest and an arbor...
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