Conspecific density dependence (CDD) in plant populations is widespread, most likely caused by local‐scale biotic interactions, and has potentially important implications for biodiversity, community composition, and ecosystem processes. However, progress in this important area of ecology has been hindered by differing viewpoints on CDD across subfields in ecology, lack of synthesis across CDD‐related frameworks, and misunderst...

Dried fish is one of the traditionally preserved foods in Sri Lanka.Since dried fish is often an important component of daily meal, this study was aimed to assess the quality of selected dried fish varieties in the local market. Dried fish samples of nine selected varieties were collected under three categories, viz. locally produced, imported dried fish before and after distribution to retail market. They were analyzed for mi...

Random amplification of polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) was carried out to assess the genetic diversity of five new microsporidian isolates viz., NIWB-11bp, NIWB-12n, NIWB-13md, NIWB-14b and NIWB-15mb identified from the silkworms. A type species, NIK-1s_mys was used as control for comparison. Differences in the spore shape, length and width were observed. Of the 30 decamer random primers tested, 22 primer...