Tropical rainforests in Sri Lanka are biodiversity hotspots, which are sensitive to anthropogenic
disturbance and long-term climate change. We assessed the diversity, endemism and …

In April 2023, the first international conference on human–wildlife conflict and coexistence (Zimmermann,
2023) took place at the University of Oxford, UK. Over 500 delegates from 70 …

Soils of tropical rainforests are likely to show a high degree of heterogeneity to match the
diversity of their vegetation. However, soils of tropical rainforest ecosystems are less well-…

The endangered Sri Lankan Leopard Panthera pardus kotiya occupies the island’ s
highly fragmented central hills where data on its feeding ecology and habitat use is largely …

Tropical rainforests in Sri Lanka are considered as biodiversity hotspots. However, their
existence is threatened by multiple climatic and anthropogenic drivers. Our objective was to …

Vavuniya District is located in the lowland dry zone district of the Northern Province of Sri
Lanka, which is still unexplored with a natural forest cover of 1,238 km2. Literature relates to …

Understanding taxon level responses of key plant traits to environmental variation across
tropical rainforests (TRFs) is important to determine their response to climate change. We used …

Our objective in this work was to quantify the variation of selected soil properties across a
wide altitudinal gradient in tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka and to determine the influence of …

Background The Sri Lankan leopard, Panthera pardus kotiya, is distributed throughout most
of the country with numbers estimated to be between 700 and 950 individuals (Kittle and …

The Sri Lankan leopard Panthera pardus kotiya is an endangered sub-species and data on
its status, distribution and abundance in the island's central hills is lacking. A main objective …