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Exploring prokaryotic diversity in permafrost-affected soils of Ladakh’s Changthang region and its geochemical drivers [PDF]
Scientific ReportsGlobal 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 +5 more
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Pastoralism in Changthang, Ladakh: Adaptations, Challenges, and Pathways for Sustainability
Mountain Research and DevelopmentIn 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 Ahmad Pandit, Riaz A Shāh
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A little known past tense marker of the northern Changthang dialects of Ladakh [PDF]
Himalayan LinguisticsThis article describes the various usages of a little known past tense morpheme of the northern part of the Ladakhi Changthang: /-pak/, /-phak/, or {-puk} (< pa.-ḥdug).
Bettina Zeisler
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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 +5 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 ONETrans-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 +7 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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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 +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Indian Journal of Extension Education, 2021 Performance of cole crops in low tunnel is successful technological intervention in remote changthang region and is boon to all types of farmers due to its cheap portable and easy installation.The yield recorded in cabbage (780qt/ha) and cauliflower (720qtl/ha) are higher inlow tunnel as compared to the open conditions(266.6qtl/ha and 500qtl/ha)with ...
Sonam Špaldon, Kunzes Angmo
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Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2005 Abstract This paper deals with the floristic structure and plant-community composition in relation to environmental gradients in the Tso Kar basin, an ∼300 km2 area of the Changthang plateau. A total of 131 sites covering various landscape units—namely, sandy plains, marsh meadows, moist meadows, scrub steppe, fell-fields, and stream courses—were ...
Bhupendra Singh Adhikari, Gopal S Rawat
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