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Stepping Stone Strategy: A Cost-Effective Way to Address Habitat Fragmentation of Endangered Wildlife in Montane Forest

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2023
Habitat fragmentation affects the survival of wildlife and is a main threat to biodiversity. Corridors are frequently used to alleviate habitat fragmentation. However, corridors are costly and often ineffective in practice.
Haohan Wang, Ying Gao, Yanpeng Li, Na Li, Cyril C. Grueter, Huiming Xu, Zhipang Huang, Liangwei Cui, Wen Xiao   +8 more
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Exhumation history of eastern Ladakh revealed by Ar-40/Ar-39 and fission-track ages: the Indus River-Tso Morari transect, NW Himalaya [PDF]

, 2003
Fission-track and Ar-40/Ar-39 ages place time constraints on the exhumation of the North Himalayan nappe stack, the Indus Suture Zone and Molasse, and the Transhimalayan Batholith in eastern Ladakh (NW India).
Cosca, M.A, Schlup, M., A. Steck, M. Schlup, Steck, A., Cosca, M., Carter, Andrew, Clift, P.D., Carter, A., A. Carter, M. Cosca   +10 more
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IM-133N - A Useful Herbal Combination for Eradicating Disease-triggering Pathogens in Mice via Immunotherapeutic Mechanisms

Journal of Pharmacopuncture, 2016
Objectives: The present study was undertaken to evaluate the immunomodulatory (IM) activity of IM-133N, a herbal combination in various immunotherapeutic experimental models.
Syed Firashathulla, Mohammed Naseeruddin Inamdar, Mohamed Rafiq, Gollapalle Lakshminarayanashastry Viswanatha, Lakkavalli Mohan Sharath Kumar, Uddagiri Venkanna Babu, Shyam Ramakrishnan, Rangesh Paramesh   +7 more
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Ephemeroptera (Mayflies) Assemblages and Environmental Variation along Three Streams Located in the Dry-Hot Valleys of Baima Snow Mountain, Yunnan, Southwest China

Insects, 2021
Mountain freshwater ecosystems are threatened all over the world by a range of human-induced stresses, ensuing in a rapid loss of habitats and species diversity.
Muhammad Farooq, Xianfu Li, Lu Tan, Davide Fornacca, Yanpeng Li, Nima Cili, Zhen Tian, Lu Yang, Xiaoling Deng, Shuoran Liu, Wen Xiao   +10 more
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Phytochemical Composition and Bioactivity of Elsholtzia strobilifera (Benth.) Benth Essential Oil With Spectral Characterisation of Pinocarvone Using NMR Techniques

Flavour and Fragrance Journal, EarlyView.
Elsholtzia strobilifera (Benth.) EO: in‐depth chemical and biological investigation. ABSTRACT Species of the genus Elsholtzia (Lamiaceae) have been traditionally used in folk medicine and are known for their diverse biological properties. However, the chemical composition and bioactivity of the essential oil from Elsholtzia strobilifera (Benth.) Benth.
Priyanka Bhatt, Pooja Bargali, Gunja Sah, G. C. Shah, Ravendra Kumar, Stefania Garzoli, Maneesha Pathak, Archana N. Sah   +7 more
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High-frequency and high-amplitude sounds enhance bird deterrence

Scientific Reports
Given the widespread conflicts between humans and birds in contexts such as agricultural production, airports, and new energy installations, the development and application of bird deterrence technologies hold significant importance for both safeguarding
Zi-Juan Dong, Kun Tan, Hong-Bin Ma, Chang-Jin Liu, Na Li, Wen Xiao   +5 more
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Infrastructure and Trade: An Empirical Study Based on China and Selected Asian Economies

SAGE Open, 2021
We empirically determine the role of different forms of infrastructure on a country’s trade. We use an augmented gravity model that incorporates infrastructure in the estimation of merchandise trade flows.
Imran Ur Rahman, Mohsin Shafi, Liu Junrong, Enitilina Tatiani M.K. Fetuu, Shah Fahad, Buddhi Prasad Sharma   +5 more
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Apatite in Carbonatite Preserving Primary Magmatic, Post‐Magmatic Overgrowth, and Post India‐Asia Collision‐Related Hydrothermal Alteration: Evidenced From U–Pb Isotope and Trace Element Geochemistry

Geological Journal, EarlyView.
U–Pb isotope and trace element geochemistry of apatite from carbonatites of Peshawar Plain Alkaline Igneous Province, western Himalaya shows Permo‐Carboniferous magmatism, an additional magmatic pulse during Cretaceous, and post‐magmatic hydrothermal/metasomatism during Oligocene. ABSTRACT U–Pb isotope and trace element geochemistry of apatite combined
Mehboob ur Rashid, Hafiz U. Rehman, Hao‐Yang Lee, Sun‐Lin Chung, Kaushik Das, Kazumasa Aoki, Muhammad Jawad Zeb, Nasir Ahmad, Muhammad Hussain, Hiroshi Yamamoto   +9 more
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The Divine as a Child and the Mother Goddess: On the History and Practice of Kunwarikā Devī Worship in the Garhwal Himalaya [PDF]

, 2023
Kunwarikā Devī is one of the forms of Ādi Śaktī (primordial goddess) and is represented as a kanyā (unmarried little girl). She is worshiped both as a child and as a mother goddess in the Garhwal Himalaya.
Ranganathan, Shubha, Gairola, Vineet
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Linking watershed formation with the phylogenetic distribution of a soil microscopic fungus in Yunnan Province, China

BMC Microbiology
Background Phylogeographic studies have gained prominence in linking past geological events to the distribution patterns of biodiversity, primarily in mountainous regions.
Davide Fornacca, Wei Deng, Yaoquan Yang, Fa Zhang, Xiaoyan Yang, Wen Xiao   +5 more
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