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Exploring the Sustainability Landscape of Nature‐Based Solutions in Food Systems

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) offer a pathway toward more resilient food systems. Although previous studies analysed various sustainability benefits of integrating NbS within food systems, the field remains fragmented, with a significant gap in understanding development patterns, emerging research trends at the intersection of NbS, food systems,
Elaheh Jalilzadehazhari
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts to the mountain‐valley circulation from the 2023 annular solar eclipse

Weather, EarlyView.
In October 2023, as part of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP), faculty and students from the University of North Dakota (UND) in coordination with Pueblo Community College Southwest collected weather observations during an annular solar eclipse colloquially known as a ‘ring of fire’ eclipse.
Jared W. Marquis, Montana Etten‐Bohm, Taylor N. McHone, Melissa Watters, Christopher LaRose   +4 more
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Himalayas from its edges: networks, identities, and place-making

While the perspectives of sovereign nation-states have tended to dominate how the Tibeto-Himalayan region has been shaped, viewed and lived in the last century, we argue for adoption of multidisciplinary perspectives that focus on flows and interactions ...
Anand, D., Kaul, N., Gohain, S., Desal, T., Deka, K., Mukherjee, S., Chawla, S., Datta, S., Palmo, T.   +8 more
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EXPLORING PREVALENCE, ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY, VIRULENCE PROFILES, AND MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE IN STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ISOLATES FROM RESPIRATORY DISEASE-AFFECTED SHEEP AND GOATS REARED BY THE MIGRATORY COMMUNITIES OF LOWER HIMALAYAS [PDF]

Exploratory Animal and Medical Research
Staphylococcus aureus is a significant bacterium that causes substantial economic losses in the livestock sector and poses life-threatening risks to both humans and animals.
Sunaina Thakur, Subhash Verma, Shivani Barsain, Prasenjit Dhar, Geetanjali Singh, Rajesh Chahota   +5 more
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Ethnobotany in the Nepal Himalaya [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2008
Indigenous knowledge has become recognized worldwide not only because of its intrinsic value but also because it has a potential instrumental value to science and conservation. In Nepal, the indigenous knowledge of useful and medicinal plants has roots in the remote past.The present study reviews the indigenous knowledge and use of plant resources of ...
Bussmann Rainer W, Kunwar Ripu M
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Suitable habitat of Himalayan wolf in Upper Mustang, Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Decades ago, the Himalayan wolf Canis lupus chanco, a genetically distinct sub‐species of the gray wolf Canis lupus, faced persecution by local communities in the Nepalese Himalayas. Recently, wolf populations have returned and recolonized, sparking concerns about conflicts over livestock depredation, and emphasizing the urgent need for comprehensive ...
Deu Bahadur Rana, Jhamak Bahadur Karki, HimLal Shrestha, Thakur Silwal, Bikash Ghimire, Bikram Shrestha   +5 more
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New Book: Masquerades in the Himalayas

, 2014
Masquerades in the Himalayas : the virtues of laughter An original and beautifully illustrated book by Pascale Dollfus and Gisèle Krauskopff is out: With its lively skeletons and walking dead, ancient bawdy characters and pregnant old women, buffoons ...
Nicolas Sihlé
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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A Space That Has Been Laboured on: Mobile Lives and Transcultural Circulation around Darjeeling and the Eastern Himalayas

The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2016
The Himalayas had long been a dynamic, yet geographically remote and ecologically challenging space of spiritual significance and cultural flux for Asian borderland peoples and mountain cultures. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, imperial policies,
Jayeeta Sharma
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Mainland diversification and recent island lineages in the reduviid genus Tapirocoris: an integrative taxonomic framework with four new species

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Using an integrative taxonomic framework that combines COI DNA barcodes, geometric morphometrics and phylogeography, we revise the assassin bug genus Tapirocoris and recover seven well‐supported species, including four newly described cryptic species.
Ping Zhao, Qinpeng Liu, Minmin Ou, Huaiyu Liu, Yingqi Liu, Jianyun Wang, Miao Yang, Zhuo Chen, Wanzhi Cai   +8 more
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