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Research Papers - 2026

    • N. Gladwin Gnana Asir, G. Mathews, K. Diraviya Raj, P. Dinesh Kumar, A. Arasamuthu, R.L. Laju, Bakan Jagdish Sudhakar and J.K. Patterson Edward (2026). Spatial variability in the carbon stocks of different seagrass meadows of southern Palk Bay, India: Influence of species composition, sediment characteristics and restoration efforts, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 225, April 2026, 119236, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2026.119236
    • Immaculate Jeyasanta, K., Narmatha Sathish, and Jamila Patterson (2026). Post-harvest pathways of microplastic contamination in commercially valuable fish from processing centers along the Gulf of Mannar, southeast coast of India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 198: 391, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-026-15250-z
    • Jamila Patterson, K. Immaculate Jeyasanta, M. Narmatha Sathish, Andy Booth, V. Glen Esmeralda and R. L. Laju (2026). A spoonful of sugar: human exposure to microplastics through consumption of processed sugarcane. Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, https://doi.org/10.1080/19440049.2026.2690609
    • Sudhakar, B.J. and Mathew Gilbert (2026). Distribution of microplastics in salt marsh habitats in the coasts of Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay, Tamil Nadu, India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 198:921, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-026-15749-5
    • Immaculate Jeyasanta, K., Narmatha Sathish, Bakan Jagdish Sudhakar, T Aswini, Jamila Patterson (2026). Biofilm-associated microbial communities on microplastics in rural and urban aquatic environments of Tamil Nadu, India: Functional characterization and antibiotic resistance. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 42:415, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-026-05146-y
    • Kalaikathiravan, P. and Edward, J.K.P. (2026) An assessment of reef fish abundance and evaluation of prevailing threats in a patch reef of the Gulf of Mannar, India. Journal of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, 14(1): 1-7,
    • Eakin, C.M., Heron, S.F., Connolly, S.R. … Diraviya Raj, K., … and Manzello, D.P. (2026) Severe and widespread coral reef damage during the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event. Nature Communications 17, 1318, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67506-w
    • Sivasankar, S. and Diraviya Raj, K. (2026). Significance of herbivorous reef fishes on reefs of the Gulf of Mannar, southeast India. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 42(e25), 1–10, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467426100595
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