Ant Researchers:
- Bharti, Himender
- Borowiec, Marek L
- Brühl, Carsten
- Dias, Sriyani
- Fayle, Tom
- Fiala, Brigitte
- Herwina, Henny
- Kiran, Kadri
- Kumar, Dolly
- Lim, Grace T
- Linsenmair, K Eduard
- Menzel, Florian
- Mezger, Dirk
- Mishra, Archana
- Narendra, Ajay
- Noon-anant, Nawee
- Offenberg, Joachim
- Paknia, Omid
- Peeters, Christian
- Perera, Aneska
- Pfeiffer, Martin
- Rastogi, Neelkamal
- Rizali, Akhmad
- Robson, Simon
- Schlick-Steiner, Birgit C
- Schultz, Roland
- Schulz, Andreas
- Sharaf, Mostafa R
- Sharma, Yash P
- Steiner, Florian M
- Vakhide, Nassim
- Varghese, Thresiamma
- Watanasit, Suparoek
- Yahya, Bakhtiar E
Dr. Sriyani Dias
Date and place of Birth:
- 17 September 1960, Colombo - Sri-Lanka
- University of Kelaniya
- Department of Zoology
University of Kelaniya
Dalugama
Kelaniya
- Sri Lanka
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- Ant diversity, community composition, forest ants, biological indicators, Aneuretus simoni
- Sri Lanka
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Taxonomic study of the foraging worker ants collected from Gampaha and other selected districts of Sri Lanka
The diversity and the community composition of worker ants collected from selected habitats in four districts in the dry and intermediate zones and the implementation of a database on ants of Sri Lanka
Taxonomic study of worker ants collected from Ratnapura district and the relative abundance and distribution of Aneuretus simoni in Ratnapura district, Sri Lanka.
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Dias, R. K. S., 2003. Taxonomic study of the worker ants collected from Colombo and Galle districts in Sri Lanka (Abstract). Proceedings of the Fourth ANeT workshop held at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand in November, 2003.
Dias, R. K. S. 2006. Changes, challenges and opportunities in studies on ant communities of forests in Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the International Conference on Humid Tropical Ecosystems: changes, challenges and opportunities. 103 p (This abstract was supported by a poster presentation.)
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2005. Comparative study of the diversity and community composition of the worker ants in a forest reserve and a secondary forest in Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, 424/D, 53 pp.
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2005. Diversity and community composition of the ground and lower canopy foraging worker ants in the Gilimale forest. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya. 55 pp.
Dias, R. K. S. and Perera, A. 2005. The distribution and relative abundance of Aneuretus simoni Emery (Sri Lankan Relict ant) in a forest reserve and a secondary forest in Sri Lanka. Proceedings of Fifth ANeT conference held in Malaysia.
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2004. Relative abundance of Aneuretus simoni Emery (Order: Hymenoptera, Family: Formicidae) in a selected region in "Pompakelle", Ratnapura estimated by four sampling methods. Sixtieth SLAAS Proceedings, 192 pp.
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2006. Ants as biological indicators of human disturbance - evidence from Sinharaja forest and tea and rubber fields in Ratnapura district (SC/ BS/ 3). Proceedings of Postgraduate Symposium held by Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya.
Dias, R. K. S. and W. M. H. K. Wijenayake. 2000. Taxonomic key for the direct identification of some mayfly nymphs (Order: Ephemeroptera) of Sri Lanka (Abstract). Proceedings of the first Annual Symposium of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya (28/ 10/ 2000).
Dias, R. K. S. and K. M. G. R. Chaminda. 2000. A preliminary taxonomic study of Sri Lankan ants (Abstract). Proceedings of the Second ANeT workshop held from 2 -7 of November, 2000 at the Universiti of Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia.
Dias, R. K. S. and M. K. C. G. Gunathilake. 2007. Worker ant communities in two disturbed regions of Anuradhapura district (dry zone), Sri Lanka (Abstract). Proceedings of the sixth ANeT conference held at University of Punjabi, Patiala in India.
Dias, R. K. S. and M. K. C. G. Gunathilake. 2007. Worker ant communities (Order: Hymenoptera, Family: Formicidae) of two disturbed forests in Anuradhapura district (Abstract). Proceedings of Postgraduate Symposium of Kelaniya University, (SC/ BS/2).
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2007. The first inventory of worker ants of "Pompekelle", a habitat of Aneuretus simoni Emery, in Sri Lanka (Abstract). Proceedings of the sixth ANeT conference held at University of Punjab, Patiala in India.
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2007. A preliminary inventory of worker ants (Family: Formicidae) in Sinharaja forest (Abstract). Proceedings of SLAAS, 2007. 446/ D
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2007. Diversity of worker ant communities (Order: Hymenoptera, Family: Formicidae) in non-agricultural lands in Ratnapura district (Abstract). Proceedings of Postgraduate Symposium of Kelaniya University, (SC/ BS/ 1)
Chaminda, K. M. G. R. and R. K. S. Dias, 2001. Taxonomic key for the identification of Sri Lankan ants: Subfamilies (Abstract). Proceedings of Third ANeT seminar and Workshop held in Hanoi, Vietnam, 11 p.
Dias, R. K. S. and K. M. G. R. Chaminda. 2001. Systematics of some worker ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) collected from several regions of Sri Lanka (Abstract). Proceedings of the Third ANeT seminar and Workshop held in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19 pp.
Dias, R. K. S., K. M. G. R. Chaminda and S. Yamane, 2001. Systematics of the worker ants collected from the premises of Kelaniya University (Abstract). Proceedings of the 57 th Annual Sessions of SLAAS, D 175.
Perera, A. and Dias, R. K. S. 2005. Diversity and community composition of the ground dwelling ants in a forest reserve in Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the fifth ANeT held in Malaysia.
Dias, R. K. S., 2004. Taxonomic key for the subfamilies of ants recorded from Sri Lanka and some information on Aneuretus simoni Emery in "Pompekelle", Ratnapura (final proofreading completed). Spolia Ceylanica, 41, 92 - 101 pp.
Perera, K. A. M. and R. K. S. Dias. 2004. The distribution and relative abundance of Aneuretus simoni Emery ( Sri Lankan Relict ant) in ten study sites of "Pompakelle", Ratnapura (Abstract). Proceedings of Postgraduate Symposium, University of Kelaniya, 77 pp.
Perera, K. A. M. and R. K. S. Dias, 2003. The relative abundance of Aneuretus simoni Emery in the forest ("Pompekelle") associated with the water pumping station in Ratnapura (Abstract). Proceedings of the 59 th Annual Sessions of SLAAS, 165 p.
Perera, K. A. M., R. K. S. Dias and S. Yamane. 2006. The first record of Aneuretus simoni Emery (Sri Lankan Relict ant) from Sinharaja forest and its relative abundance estimated by several sampling methods. Proceedings of the 62 nd Annual Sessions of SLAAS (413/ D), 74 p.
Sumanasinghe, H. P. W. and R. K. S. Dias. 2002. Diversity of worker ants collected from four Dysmicoccus brevipes Cockerell infested and uninfested pineapple fields in Attanagalla and a preliminary study on the association between Paratrechina longicornis Latreille and Dysmicoccus brevipes (Abstract). Proceedings of the 58 th Annual Sessions of SLAAS, 168 pp.
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Dias, R. K. S., 2000. A preliminary taxonomic study of Sri Lankan ants. Presentation was at the Second ANeT workshop held from 2 -7 of November, 2000 at the Universiti of Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia.
Dias, R. K. S., 2001. Systematics of some worker ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) collected from several regions of Sri Lanka. This was presented at the Third ANeT seminar and Workshop held in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19 pp.
Dias, R.K.S., 2003. Taxonomic study of the worker ants collected from Colombo and Galle districts. This was presented at the Fourth ANeT workshop held at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand in November, 2003.
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2006. Ants as biological indicators of human disturbance - evidence from Sinharaja forest and tea and rubber fields in Ratnapura district (SC/ BS/ 3). Proceedings of Postgraduate Symposium held by Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya.
Dias, R. K. S. and M. K. C. G. Gunathilake. 2007. Worker ant communities in two disturbed regions of Anuradhapura district (dry zone), Sri Lanka (Abstract). Proceedings of ANeT conference held at University of Punjabi, Patiala in India.
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2007. The first inventory of worker ants of "Pompekelle", a habitat of Aneuretus simoni Emery, in Sri Lanka (Abstract). Proceedings of ANeT conference held at University of Punjab, Patiala in India.
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2007. A preliminary inventory of worker ants (Family: Formicidae) in Sinharaja forest (Abstract). Proceedings of SLAAS, 2007. 446/ D
Dias, R. K. S. and K. A. M. Perera. 2007. Diversity of worker ant communities (Order: Hymenoptera, Family: Formicidae) in non-agricultural lands in Ratnapura district (Abstract). Proceedings of Postgraduate Symposium of Kelaniya University, 2007. (SC/ BS/ 1)
Dias, R. K. S. and Perera, A. 2005. The distribution and relative abundance of Aneuretus simoni Emery (Sri Lankan Relict ant) in a forest reserve and a secondary forest in Sri Lanka. Proceedings of ANeT held in Malaysia.
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Dias, R. K. S. 2007. Biology and Control methods of termites and ants (in Sinhala). S. Godage and Brothers, 60 p.
Dias, R. K. S. 2007. Forest Entomology. This has been submitted to Head, Department of Zoology, Open University of Sri Lanka and accepted to be included in a book on "Management of insect pests and vectors" shortly.
Dias, R.K.S., 2006. Current taxonomic status of ants of Sri Lanka. In: The Fauna of Sri Lanka - Status of taxonomy, research and conservation (edi: Bambaradeniya, C. N. B.), Karunaratne and Sons Ltd.(IUCN Publication), 43 - 52 pp.
Dias, R.K. S., 2005. The importance of ants of Sri Lanka as a component of biodiversity (in Sinhala language). In: Proceedings of National Symposium on Invertebrates (edi: Amarasekera, H.), Piyasiri Printers, 36-42 pp.
Dias, R. K. S. Ants of Sinharaja. This article has been submitted to a Benchmark Nature Interpreter manual for Ecotourism to be prepared by the Tourism Cluster, The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, No. 50, Navam Mawatha, Colombo 2. This manual will be used for training young guides for ecotourism.
Dias, R. K. S., Ants of Sri Lanka (in Sinhala) .Submitted to Biodiversity Unit under the Ministry of Environment and accepted to be published as a chapter in a book titled "Animal Diversity".
Dias, R. K. S., 2002. Ants of Sri Lanka with a brief description of field and laboratory methods. Sarvodaya Vishvalekha Press, Ratmalana. 44p.
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