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Ethnolichenology—The Use of Lichens in the Himalayas and Southwestern Parts of China

open access: yesDiversity, 2021
Lichens are used in traditional medicine, food and various other ethnic uses by cultures across the Himalayas and southwestern parts of China. Evidence-based knowledge from historical and modern literatures and investigation of ethnic uses from 1990 ...
Meixia Yang   +2 more
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Microplastic pollution in the Himalayas: Occurrence, distribution, accumulation and environmental impacts.

Science of the Total Environment, 2023
Microplastics have been reported from various ecosystems including lakes, ponds, wetlands, mountains, and forests globally. Recent research works showed microplastic deposition and accumulation in the Himalayan mountains and adjoining ecosystems, rivers ...
Avishek Talukdar   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Climate warming enhances snow avalanche risk in the Western Himalayas

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Significance Climate warming is impacting the cryosphere in high mountain ranges, thereby enhancing the probability for more and larger mass-wasting processes to occur.
J A Ballesteros-Cánovas   +2 more
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Mapping socio-environmental vulnerability to climate change in different altitude zones in the Indian Himalayas

Ecological Indicators, 2020
Socio-environmental vulnerability to climate change in mountain landscapes depends upon multiple factors that can vary across altitude zones. However, there is limited knowledge on specific indicators suitable for assessing socio-environmental ...
A. Gupta   +7 more
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Impacts of Himalayas on black carbon over the Tibetan Plateau during summer monsoon

open access: yesScience of the Total Environment, 2017
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays important roles in global climate and environment. This study combines in-situ BC measurements in the Himalayas and the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) with a regional dynamical and chemical model (WRF-Chem model) to investigate ...
Shuyu Zhao, Xuexi Tie, Xin Long
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Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Hazard, Downstream Impact, and Risk Over the Indian Himalayas

Water Resources Research, 2020
Indian Himalayas are home to numerous glacial lakes, which can pose serious threat to downstream communities and lead to catastrophic socioeconomic disasters in case of a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF).
S. Dubey, M. Goyal
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Drivers and mechanisms of forest change in the Himalayas

, 2021
Mountains are critical ecosystems that have a strong influence far beyond their topographic boundaries. More than 50 million people inhabit the Himalayas, and more than one billion people depend on the ecosystem services they provide.
Akash Verma   +4 more
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Mitigation or Myth? Impacts of Hydropower Development and Compensatory Afforestation on forest ecosystems in the high Himalayas

, 2021
Fragile ecosystems of the Himalayas have seen rampant land-use changes in recent times due to proliferation of hydropower development promoted as a climate change mitigation strategy for global energy transition. Further, in order to mitigate the loss of
M. Asher, Prakash Bhandari
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Cloudbursts in Indian Himalayas: A review

open access: yesEarth-Science Reviews, 2017
A P Dimri   +2 more
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