Upali S Amarasinghe
Senior Professor Emeritus - Department of Zoology and Environmental Management at University of Kelaniya | Kelaniya , Sri Lanka
- Subjects:
- Life Sciences
- Spoken languages:
- English
- Status:
- Available for mentoring and open to collaboration.
- Support Level:
- Long-term mentoring and support, Short-term mentoring and support
- Support Offered:
- Proposal development, Data analysis, Data management and sharing
Work
- Subjects:
- Life Sciences
- Research Keywords:
- inland fisheries, fisheries management, aquatic ecology, local ecological knowledge
- Collaboration interests:
- Reservoir fisheries, tropical fish stock assessment, property regimes in fisheries, Ostrom's design principles, indigenous knowledge in fisheries management.
- Biography:
- My research interest are Inland capture and aquaculture-based fisheries, Community-based fisheries management, Fisheries co-management, Trophic evaluation in fish communities of reservoirs, streams and estuaries, and Conservation of aquatic biodiversity. Recent publications Weliange, W.S., U.S. Amarasinghe and F. Schiemer 2008. Ecomorphological patterns of feeding in fish assemblages in three Sri Lankan reservoirs. In: Schiemer F., D. Simon, U.S. Amarasinghe, and J. Moreau (eds). Aquatic Ecosystem and Development: Comparative Asian Perspectives. Biology of Inland Waters, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. pp. 219-324. Villanueva M.C., J. Moreau, U.S. Amarasinghe and F. Schiemer 2008. Foodweb and the trophic structure of two Asian reservoirs using ECOPATH with ECOSIM and ECOSPACE: A comparative study. In: Schiemer F., D. Simon, U.S. Amarasinghe, and J. Moreau (eds). Aquatic Ecosystem and Development: Comparative Asian Perspectives. Biology of Inland Waters, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. pp. 413-434. Kularatne, M.G., U.S. Amarasinghe, P. Wattage and S.S. De Silva 2009. Evaluation of community participation for the development of culture-based fisheries in village reservoirs of Sri Lanka. Aquaculture Economics and Management 13: 22-38. Amarasinghe, U.S. and T.T.T. Nguyen 2009. Enhancing rural farmer income through fish production: Secondary use of water resources in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. In: S.S. De Silva and F.B. Davy (eds) Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture. pp. 103-130. Springer Science, Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-481-3085-6 (Print) ISBN 978-90-481-3087-0 (Online) http://library.enaca.org/emerging_issues/success_stories/success-stories-asian-aquaculture.pdf
- Profile website:
- http://science.kln.ac.lk/depts/zoology/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=10
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