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Intangible cultural heritage threatened-level categories and criteria
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsIntangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a valuable cultural resource produced by human beings in the process of environmental adaptation. Its inheritance and protection play a vital role in sustainable social development and human well-being.
Na Li, Xiaokang Li, Wen Xiao
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The Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdown on Human–Primate Coexistence: Insights and Recommendations
Ecosystem Health and SustainabilityThe global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a series of human lockdowns. Studying human–animal linkages during these periods is essential in conserving global biodiversity, maintaining ecosystem integrity, and preventing zoonotic diseases ...
Junjie Li +7 more
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Ethics of Infrastructure Development in the Rural
İbn Haldun Çalışmaları Dergisi, 2019 The Prime Minister of India marked 28th April 2018 as a historic day in the journey of Indian development. Through a tweet, he claimed that on this day electricity has reached to each and every village in India.
Himalaya Ahuja
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Exploring Biomedical, Temporal, and Embodied Perspectives on the Timing of Birth in Central Nepal [PDF]
, 2018 As an ANHS Senior Fellow, I began to explore the standardization of time in obstetrics and its translation into everyday practice in Nepal by analyzing the various perspectives involved in determining a woman’s ideal time of delivery and a successful ...
Brunson, Jan, Tamrakar, Suman Raj
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Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Stronger Action Urgently Needed
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment, 2019 Climate change impacts in the mountains of the HKH are already substantive. Increased climate variability is already affecting water availability, ecosystem services, and agricultural production, and extreme weather is causing flash floods, landslides ...
A. Mishra +12 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Museum specimens provide a rich source of historical DNA, enabling insights into phylogenetic relationships and demographic history of the endangered Koklass Pheasant. Our findings uncovered a previously unrecognized population in Guizhou province and highlighted elevated extinction risk in populations from Anhui province and Southern China, informing ...
Zhiyong Jiang +9 more
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Geophysical upheavals and evolutionary diversification of plant species in the Himalaya
PeerJ, 2018 The Himalaya is one of the youngest and the loftiest mountain chains of the world; it is also referred to as the water tower of Asia. The Himalayan region harbors nearly 10,000 plant species constituting approximately 2.5% of the global angiosperm ...
K. Manish, M. Pandit
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Updated Chorotypes of Terrestrial Vertebrates Shed New Light on Zoogeographical Regions in China
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Chorotype represents a fundamental concept for identifying groups of species that share similar distribution patterns. However, the last comprehensive revision of animal chorotypes in China was performed more than a decade ago. Here, we update the chorotype classifications for 1040 species and propose an updated zoogeographical regionalization scheme ...
Baoming Zhang +6 more
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Drivers of Change to Mountain Sustainability in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment, 2019 Many challenges for sustainability are related to weak governance, natural resource overexploitation, environmental degradation, certain aspects of unregulated or rapid urbanization, and loss of traditional culture.
Yanfen Wang +4 more
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Biodiversity research requires more motors in air, water and on land
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Human activities have accelerated species extinctions, driving rapid biodiversity decline. Simultaneously, advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems offer transformative potential for biodiversity research. Uncrewed vehicles—drones (aerial systems) and other robots (ground and underwater platforms)—equipped with high ...
Man Qi +8 more
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