Organisms of all species must balance their allocation to growth, survival and recruitment. Among tree species, evolution has resulted in different life-history strategies for partitioning resources to these key demographic processes. Life-history strategies in tropical forests have often been shown to align along a trade-off between fast growth and high survival, i.e. the well-known fast-slow continuum. In addition, an orthogonal trade-off has been proposed between tall stature – resulting from fast growth and high survival...

Provides in-depth data regarding diverse socio-economic impacts, mobility, and human behavioral changes due to COVID-19 across three identified pandemic phases. Data was gathered through a field survey. Useful for cross-impact analysis across time which depicts the evolution of socio-economic, mobility, and human behavioral changes over pandemic periods. This is also useful for policy decisions and implications. Further, this contains Survey instrument which was developed for the data collection under AI4COVID project (website: ai4covind.lk ) in...

Additional file 1. Supplemantary data table 1: Optical density values and % inhibition values of the serum samples collected from the workplace settings.

The whole blood clotting test (WBCT) is commonly used for diagnosing venom-induced consumption coagulopathy (VICC) in resource-poor settings. We aimed to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the WBCT and capillary blood clotting test (CBCT) for detecting VICC in viper envenoming in Sri Lanka. All confirmed snakebites admitted to Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura from July 2020 to June 2021 were included. On admission, WBCTs after 15, 20 and 25 min observation times (WBCT-15, WBCT-20 and WBCT-25) and...

Ecological and environmental traits can influence avian escape behaviour but most data underpinning our current understanding relates to continental and temperate areas and species. We conducted a phylogenetically controlled comparative analysis of flight-initation distance (FID) against a variety of environmental, behavioural and life-history attributes for Sri Lankan birds (202 species; n = 2540). As with other studies, body mass was positively associated with FID, and longer FIDs occurred in areas where human population density was...

The whole blood clotting test (WBCT) is commonly used for diagnosing venom-induced consumption coagulopathy (VICC) in resource-poor settings. We aimed to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the WBCT and capillary blood clotting test (CBCT) for detecting VICC in viper envenoming in Sri Lanka. All confirmed snakebites admitted to Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura from July 2020 to June 2021 were included. On admission, WBCTs after 15, 20 and 25 min observation times (WBCT-15, WBCT-20 and WBCT-25) and...

Additional file 1. Supplemantary data table 1: Optical density values and % inhibition values of the serum samples collected from the workplace settings.