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Pattiyage I. A. Gomes
Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
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Profiling Microplastic Pollution in Surface Water Bodies in the Most Urbanized City of Sri Lanka and Its Suburbs to Understand the Underlying Factors
This study investigated the microplastic pollution of surface waters in and around the most populated and urbanized city in Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022. The sampling regime was designed to cover the rainfall-d...
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Investigation of Long-Term River Water Quality Trends in Hong Kong to Identify Role of Urbanization, Seasons and Pollution Sources
This study investigated the long-term stream water quality trends of nine catchments in Hong Kong with different levels of urbanization using monthly water quality data for a 30-year period at annual and seaso...
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Assessment of Pollution Sources, Fate of Pollutants, and Potential Instream Interventions to Mitigate Pollution of Earthen Canals of Urban to Rural-Urban Fringe
Three representative earthen canals from urban, peri-urban, and rural-urban fringe of Sri Lanka were studied for a 2-year period against different seasons to capture insights important in ecological rehabilita...
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Relationships Among Anthropogenic Disturbances Representative Riparian and Non-Riparian Herbaceous Indicators (Biomass and Diversity), Land Use, and Lotic Water Quality: Implications on Rehabilitation of Lotic Waters
This study was carried out to evaluate the linkages among herbaceous plant biomass (i.e., aboveground and litter biomasses) and diversity (Shannon-Wiener index) in riparian and non-riparian areas, land use, an...
