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Buck Wheat: Nutritional, Bioactive Characteristics, Health Benefits, and Side Effects

Future Postharvest and Food, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Micronutrient deficits have resulted from an over‐reliance on a small number of cereal crops for food security. The agricultural sector faces severe sustainability issues due to the rapid growth of the world's population and sudden climatic changes.
Momina Farooq, Sajad Ahmad Mir, Zahida Naseem   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Will high heatwave risk be the new normal over high-elevation regions of northwestern High Mountain Asia in the future?

Environmental Research Communications
The rise in temperature as a consequence of climate change has significantly impacted the environmental, social, and economic systems worldwide, especially over complex terrains like High Mountain Asia (HMA). Assessment of the associated climate risks is
Anju Vijayan Nair, Diogo S A Araujo, Rahim Dobariya, Deo Raj Gurung, Efthymios I Nikolopoulos   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wind blowing snow processes: A framework in high mountain Asia

, 2023
The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023)
Li, G., Lehning, M., Yu, H., Zhang, J., Huang, N.   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Mesozoic–Cenozoic Thermochronology of the Tarim–Southern Tianshan System, NW China

Geological Journal, EarlyView.
Tectonothermal history of the Tarim–Southern Tianshan system compared with the major tectonic events at far‐field plate margins. ABSTRACT The Tarim Basin, an oil‐bearing basin in northwest China, is tectonically and sedimentologically linked to the Southern Tianshan Orogenic Belt.
Shuangfeng Zhao, Wen Chen, Jingbo Sun, Ze Shen, Jie Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unraveling the complexities of rain-on-snow events in High Mountain Asia

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Rain-on-snow (ROS) events, defined as rainfall on a snow-covered landscape, pose a significant flood risk. While climate change is altering precipitation patterns and snow cover in High Mountain Asia (HMA), our understanding of ROS patterns and their ...
Yupeng Li, Fan Sun, Yaning Chen, Gonghuan Fang, Zhi Li, Weili Duan, Jingxiu Qin, Xueqi Zhang, Baofu Li   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reversed Surface-Mass-Balance Gradients on Himalayan Debris-Covered Glaciers Inferred from Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing, 2020
Meltwater from the glaciers in High Mountain Asia plays a critical role in water availability and food security in central and southern Asia. However, observations of glacier ablation and accumulation rates are limited in spatial and temporal scale due ...
Rosie R. Bisset, Amaury Dehecq, Daniel N. Goldberg, Matthias Huss, Robert G. Bingham, Noel Gourmelen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Materialism: A Reading of the New Art from China [PDF]

, 2020
This essay has three parts. The first moves from what artists confronted when China was first opened to the west in 1978 to what two classical Chinese critics and artists said art was and how it was to be made.
WISEMAN, Mary
core   +1 more source

‘Mountain resorts’: origins and evolution [PDF]

, 2009
The paper discusses the background for the emergence of such ‘mountain resorts’, their types and changes in their mode of operation. Some theoretical and practical issues will be illustrated with examples derived from Europe, North America, Asia and ...
Kowalczyk, Andrzej
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Key soil health indicators under humid grazing lands

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Soil health can be described using a few key soil health indicators that target a diversity of soil functions. This perspective article highlights how forage management affects these soil health indicators in humid‐zone grazing lands. Abstract Background Soil health describes critical soil functions influenced by land management. Although some key soil
Alan J. Franzluebbers
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing dataset of classified drainage areas based on surface water-supply patterns in High Mountain Asia

Big Earth Data, 2020
The High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, ranging from the Hindu Kush and Tien Shan in the west to the Himalaya in the south with an altitude between 2000 and 8844 m, holds the largest reservoir of glaciers and snow outside Earth Polar Regions.
Jieyu Lu, Yubao Qiu, Xingxing Wang, Wenshan Liang, Pengfei Xie, Lijuan Shi, Massimo Menenti, Dongshui Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source