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Exploring prokaryotic diversity in permafrost-affected soils of Ladakh’s Changthang region and its geochemical drivers [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Global warming due to climate change has substantial impact on high-altitude permafrost affected soils. This raises a serious concern that the microbial degradation of sequestered carbon can result in alteration of the biogeochemical cycles.
Ahmad Ali, Phuntsog Dolma, Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Tsewang Namgail, Tundup Dolma, Archana Chauhan   +5 more
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Pastoralism in Changthang, Ladakh: Adaptations, Challenges, and Pathways for Sustainability [PDF]

Mountain Research and Development
In the Changthang region of Ladakh, India, pastoralism serves as the cornerstone of both the local economy and the local way of life. However, recent socioeconomic shifts and environmental constraints put this economic structure, which has been expertly ...
Arif Pandit, Masood Mir, Mohsin Mir, Yaqoob Wani, Irfan Bisati, Saif Un Nisa, Hilal M. Khan, Riaz A. Shah   +7 more
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Safeguarding a national asset: A review on problems faced by Pashmina farmers in Changthang and their amelioration [PDF]

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2014
Pashmina is our national asset. It is one of the finest natural fibers of the world found in our country. This valuable commodity belongs to few far flung and remote areas of Changthang region of Ladakh (Jammu and Kashmir).
MOHD IQBAL YATOO, MAHESHWAR SINGH, SYED SHAFAT KUBREVI, MIR SHABIR, RUKSAR DAR, KUNZES ANGMO   +5 more
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Historical Sites of Changthang, Leh, Ladakh and Historical Sites of Purig, Kargil, Union Territory of Ladakh [PDF]

HIMALAYA, 2022
Patrick Kaplanian
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Traditional food systems of Changthang, Ladakh [PDF]

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 2022
The food production, consumption, and preservation systems and most of the food products of Changthang region are unique to it due to its extra-ordinary conditions largely governed by the ethnic preference, agro-climatic conditions and socio-cultural and
HUSSAIN, ANWAR , SPALDON, SONAM , TUNDUP, PHUNTSOG   +2 more
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Aquificae overcomes competition by archaeal thermophiles, and crowding by bacterial mesophiles, to dominate the boiling vent-water of a Trans-Himalayan sulfur-borax spring. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Trans-Himalayan hot spring waters rich in boron, chlorine, sodium and sulfur (but poor in calcium and silicon) are known based on PCR-amplified 16S rRNA gene sequence data to harbor high diversities of infiltrating bacterial mesophiles.
Nibendu Mondal, Subhajit Dutta, Sumit Chatterjee, Jagannath Sarkar, Mahamadul Mondal, Chayan Roy, Ranadhir Chakraborty, Wriddhiman Ghosh   +7 more
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Prevalence of hypertension at high altitude: cross-sectional survey in Ladakh, Northern India 2007-2011. [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2015
Objective: Prevalence of hypertension was examined in a widely dispersed (45 110 km2) representative group of Ladakhi in Northern India. The influence of hypoxic environment of wide-ranged altitude (2600–4900 m) and lifestyle change on hypertension was ...
Norboo T, Stobdan T, Tsering N, Angchuk N, Tsering P, Ahmed I, Chorol T, Kumar Sharma V, Reddy P, Singh SB, Kimura Y, Sakamoto R, Fukutomi E, Ishikawa M, Suwa K, Kosaka Y, Nose M, Yamaguchi T, Tsukihara T, Matsubayashi K, Otsuka K, Okumiya K.   +21 more
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The pattern of waterbird diversity of the trans-Himalayan wetlands in Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary, Ladakh, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2020
Ladakh lies on an important bird migratory route between the Palearctic and the Indian sub-continent, and the high altitude migratory species utilise Ladakh frequently as a stopover site.  The trans-Himalayan landscape in Ladakh also serves as a breeding
Pushpinder Singh Jamwal, Shivam Shrotriya, Jigmet Takpa   +2 more
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Assessing high conservation value areas for rare, endemic and threatened (RET) species: A study in high altitude Changthang landscape of India

Journal for Nature Conservation, 2023
The Forest Stewardship Council developed the concept of High Conservation Values (HCVs) as a criteria in the forest certification process in order to promote sustainable forest management. It has six major components or values and component one and two of HCVs deal with the habitat for viable populations of “rare, endemic and threatened (RET) species ...
Mehebub Sahana, Gopala Areendran, Akhil Sivadas, Krishna Raj, Diwakar Sharma, Md. Sajid Sultan, Abhishek Ghoshal, Siddharth Parameswaran   +7 more
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Chemical composition and antioxidant capacities of phytococktail extracts from trans-Himalayan cold desert. [PDF]

BMC Complement Altern Med, 2013
BACKGROUND: Himalayan plants are widely used in traditional system of medicine both as prophylactics and therapeutics for high altitude maladies. Our aim was to evaluate the antioxidant capacities and bioactive compounds of methanol and n-hexane extracts
Dhar P, Bajpai PK, Tayade AB, Chaurasia OP, Srivastava RB, Singh SB.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources