Publications:

Journal Publications

1. Haritha Thulaseedharan Nair and Siddhuraju Perumal (2024). Growth performance, haematological and oxidative stress responses in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) exposed to polypropylene microplastics. Environmental Quality Management, 34(1),e22179, https://doi.org/10.1002/tqem.22179
2. Haritha Thulaseedharan Nair and Perumal Siddhuraju (2023). Microplastics invasion in freshwater ecosystems of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu: A study on water, sediment and fish species of five major lakes. Journal of Environmental Pollution and Human Health, 11(2), 21-32. https://pubs.sciepub.com/jephh/11/2/1/index.html
3. Haritha Thulaseedharan Nair and Siddhuraju Perumal (2022). Trophic Transfer and Accumulation of Microplastics in Freshwater Ecosystem: Risk to Food Security and Human Health. International Journal of Ecology, Article ID 1234078. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1234078
4. Haritha Thualseedharan Nair and Perumal Siddhuraju (2021). Is the covid-19 pandemic increasing the microplastic load in our environment? Pollution Research, 40(3):817-822. http://www.envirobiotechjournals.com/article_abstract.php?aid=11692&iid=336&jid=4
5. Haritha Thulaseedharan Nair, Gokul R Nath and Siddhuraju Perumal (2024). Impact of organic compost prepared from different plant-based residues on seed germination and early seedling growth performance of Vigna radiata (l.) Wilczek. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 94(2), 114-117.
6. Roopika Sivaraman., Haritha Thulaseedharan Nair., Sharmila Krishnan., & Siddhuraju Perumal. (2024). The Extraction and Characterization of Microplastics of Biocompost and Water Samples Collected from the Different Semi-Urban Agronurseries. Soil and Sediment Contamination: An International Journal, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15320383.2024.2379328
7. Siddhuraju Perumal, Dhanya Viswanathan, Haritha Thulaseedharan Nair, Roopika Sivaraman (2023). Red Amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor) Irrigated with Domestic Sewage Wastewater as a Source of Irrigation: Environmental Food Security and Safety Assessment Perspectives. Ecology, Environment and Conservation, 29 (4), 261-282.
8. Roopika Sivaraman, Haritha Thulaseedharan Nair, Revathy Sajith Makkaparambil and Perumal Siddhuraju (2024). Domestic sewage wastewater irrigation in the semi‐urban ecosystem on soil physical–chemical properties and environmental food security perspectives of two vegetables. Natural Resources Forum, 48 (3), 784-802.
9. Jose, A., Vineethkumar, V., Shimod, K. P., Balakrishnan, A. R., Jithina, M., Haritha T Nair & Lakshmanan, N. V. (2023). Bioaccumulation and ecological risk assessment of heavy metal contamination in various mangrove species of Kannur District, Kerala, India. Materials Today: Proceedings. Elsevier.
10. Harsha, P. V., Nandagopan, S., Vineethkumar, V., Nath, M. R., Haritha T Nair., Raj, K. V., & Prakash, V. (2023). Heavy metal contamination and ecological risk assessment in peruvamaba river, Kannur District, Kerala. Materials Today: Proceedings. Elsevier.

Book Chapter

Haritha T Nair, Sarangi N V and Sneha C. Birds of Kottathalachi Mount, Western Ghats, Kannur, Kerala. In: Biota – A Compendium of Research papers. Abhilash E.S, Thejass P, Sinitha K (Eds.), Insight Publications, ISBN 978-93-89155-16-7, Chapter 4; pp 28-32, 2019

Paper presentation

Scientific Papers Presented

1. Presented paper on ‘Avian diversity of Kottathalachi Mount, Western Ghats, Kannur, Kerala at the National seminar on Biodiversity of Western Ghats organized by Department of Environmental studies, Kannur University.
2. Presented paper on ‘A comparative study on the physico-chemical characteristics of sewage waste water and sludge collected from different urban areas of Coimbatore, Tamilnadu’ at 32nd Kerala Science Congress (January 2019).
3. Presented paper on ‘Microplastics as vectors of heavy metals: A study on microplastics from aquatic sediments’ at International Conference on Soil, Water and Air pollution- ICSWAP 2022, organized by School of Environmental studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology. (October 2022).
4. Presented paper on ‘ Effects of Microplastics (Polypropylene) on Growth performance, Haematological and Oxidative stress responses in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)’ at the International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Health- ICEGSF- 2023, organized by Department of Environmental Sciences, Kerala University, Trivandrum (November 2023).