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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 ...
Riaz A Shāh, Arif Ahmad Paṇḍit
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Safeguarding a national asset: A review on problems faced by Pashmina farmers in Changthang and their amelioration

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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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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Co‐designing conservation interventions through participatory action research in the Indian Trans‐Himalaya

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2023
Community‐based conservation, despite being more inclusive than fortress conservation, has been criticized for being a top‐down implementation of external ideas brought to local communities for conservation's benefit.
M. Khanyari, R. Dorjay, S. Lobzang, A. Bijoor, K. Suryawanshi   +4 more
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A mixed‐methods approach for identifying high conservation value areas in the high‐altitude landscapes of the Indian Himalayan region

Geo: Geography and Environment
High conservation values (HCVs) are a set of characteristics or attributes that are considered to be of exceptional significance for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Mehebub Sahana, Gopala Areendran, Akhil Sivadas, Md Masroor, C. S. Abhijita, Krishna Raj, Kumar Ranjan, Diwakar Sharma, Md Sajid Sultan, Abhishek Ghoshal, Siddharth Parameswaran, Haroon Sajjad, Samrat Deb, Kashif Imdad   +13 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, Krishna Raj
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Climate warming promotes growth in Himalayan alpine cushion plants but threatens survival through increased extreme snowfall. [PDF]

New Phytol
Summary Climate warming stimulates growth and reproduction in cold‐adapted plants but also leads to extreme weather events that may hinder their performance. We examined these predictions in the cold‐arid Himalayan subnival zone at 5900 m, where unprecedented warming and extreme snowfalls occurred over the past three decades.
Jandova V, Altman J, Sehadova H, Macek M, Fibich P, Ruka AT, Dolezal J.   +6 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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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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Livelihood, Sustainability and Change among Changpas of Changthang: Ladakh India

Journal of Human Ecology: International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Man-environment Relationship, 2021
Pastoral societies use animals as providers of food, fuel, fiber, draught power and transportation. However, nomadic, semi- nomadic and transhumant pastoralist societies have lifestyles that revolve mainly around their livestock. The transhumant pastoral societies inhabiting the high Himalayan areas exploit the seasonal abundance of grazing areas.
Veena Bhasin
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