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Geophysical Research LettersThe South Slope of the Himalayas (SSH) is witnessing dynamic shifts in vegetation greenness driven by climatic conditions across elevation variability. Here, we analyzed greening patterns of natural vegetated surfaces along the elevational gradient and ...
Hamza Mukhtar +6 more
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Climate change and indigenous people: perceptions of transhumant herders and implications to the transhumance system in the Himalayas [PDF]
, 2014 Climate change poses differential vulnerability for different communities, sectors and regions. People, whose subsistence livelihood is based on the direct utilisation of natural resources are most affected by climate change and have different but ...
Cockfield, Geoff +2 more
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Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2006 The Himalayan mountain chain is orographically fragmented, both in the east-west and in the north-south directions. The latter area is characterised by a greater landscape diversity, owing to its zonality and the vertical zonation of both climate and ...
Zgorzelski Marek
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COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND BACTERIOLOGICAL QUALITY OF YAK, DZOMO, AND HILL CATTLE MILK FROM THE NORTHERN HIMALAYAS [PDF]
Exploratory Animal and Medical ResearchThe current investigation was aimed to assess the physicochemical and bacteriological quality of raw milk (N=223) obtained from Yaks, Yak hybrids (Dzomo) and Indigenous hill cattle (Pahari) reared in high-altitude regions of the Northern Himalayas ...
Richa Negi, Atul Kumar
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An Assessment of Sustainability of Rural Areas of Upper Beas Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne, 2020 Subject and purpose of work: The study aims to assess the sustainability of rural areas of Western Himalayas during the year 2019.
Jolli Virat
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Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2021 Albulina orbitulus lobbichleri Forster, 1961 is a rare butterfly subspecies endemic of Nepal. This butterfly has been recorded for the first time living at highest elevation of 4,815 m from the Himalayan region Mustang in West Nepal.
Bimal Raj Shrestha +2 more
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Monitoring climate change vulnerability in the Himalayas
AmbioLongitudinal assessment of climate vulnerability is essential for understanding the complex factors affecting how people experience and respond to climate change.
I. Malik, James D. Ford
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Why apple orchards are shifting to the higher altitudes of the Himalayas?
PLoS ONE, 2020 Apple cultivation is one of the most important sources of livelihood in Indian side of the Himalayas. The present study focuses on the apple orchards of Himachal Pradesh, a state within the Himalayan Mountains, a major apple producers of India.
Netrananda Sahu +6 more
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance Since the beginning of the European Industrial Revolution (∼1780 AD), increases in the deposition of atmospheric toxic metals were recorded in an ice core extracted from the Dasuopu glacier, at very high elevation (7,200 m) in the Himalayas.
P. Gabrielli +6 more
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