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Glacier mass balance and its climatic and nonclimatic drivers in the Ladakh region during 2000–2021 from remote sensing data

Journal of Glaciology
This study investigates the geodetic mass balance of nearly all glaciers in the Ladakh region, which are crucial for local water security. Utilizing multiple digital elevation models from 2000 and 2021, we estimate glacier mass balances. Climatic drivers
Arindan Mandal, Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma, Thupstan Angchuk, Mohd Farooq Azam, Purushottam Kumar Garg, Mohd Soheb   +5 more
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Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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The Negotiation of Religious Identity of Muslim Women in Leh District, Ladakh

HIMALAYA, 2020
This paper examines the negotiation of religious identity among Sunni Muslim women in Leh, Ladakh. Although Muslims in Leh share the same socio-cultural environment with Buddhists, the differences between the two communities have become more pronounced ...
Samina Rehman
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Partly cystic common peroneal nerve schwannoma: an unusual cause of hallux drop

The Journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2023
Traumatic peroneal nerve injury is the usual underlying cause for foot drop. Other causes are like neoplastic, metabolic, or infective are rarely seen.
Abhishek Mishra, MD, Naresh Kumar, Simarjeet Singh   +2 more
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Vegetation on the move: elevational shifts and greening dynamics across the Himalayan alpine zone

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 6, June 2026.
This study investigates alpine ‘vegetation line' (the upper limit of continuous plant community) dynamics in the Himalayan alpine zone (HAZ) over a 24‐year timescale (1999–2022) using maximum NDVI products derived from Landsat series datasets, adjusted for sampling bias using phenological modelling.
Ruolin Leng, Stephan Harrison, Dominic Fawcett, Achyut Tiwari, Mike Harrison, Karen Anderson   +5 more
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Perspectives from the Field

HIMALAYA, 2018
This article is based on a series of interviews with a group of female Islamic scholars—alima—in Leh, Ladakh, who were the first four women from the region to receive a religious education in a formal madrassa (religious school).
Jacqueline H. Fewkes
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The Sacred and the Secular

HIMALAYA, 2020
This paper is an attempt to understand and conceptualize tourism and changing monastic space in Ladakh with special reference to the Lamayuru monastery.
Tashi Lundup
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Influence of vegetation and land use on soil organic carbon (SOC) and nutrient status in the cold, arid climate of Ladakh Trans-Himalayan region, India

Discover Soil
This study examines the impact of vegetation patterns and land-use conversion on soil organic carbon (SOC) and nutrient dynamics in the cold arid environment of Ladakh, Trans-Himalaya. This study aims to evaluate the influence of different land use types
Mohd Baqir, Mohd Salim, Nelofar Hassnain Mir, Farida Batool   +3 more
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First report of an invasive pest, Pheosia albivertex (Hampson 1983) (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) on Populus alba (Salicaceae), from Ladakh, India

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity
Populus spp. belongs to the deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, primarily located in the Northern Hemisphere, including Trans-Himalayan, cold arid desert Ladakh.
Mohd Hussain, Nassreen Fatima Kacho, Pathour R. Shashank, Mohsin Ali, Altaf Hussain Mir   +4 more
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First report of an invasive pest, Phyllonorycter populifoliella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from Ladakh

Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2021
Phyllonorycter populifoliella (Treitschke 1883), is an invasive pest and is first reported on poplar trees, from the eastern region of Ladakh, India. The details of the taxonomic identification based on genital morphology are presented.
Barkat HUSSAIN, Abdul Rasheed Rasheed WAR, Ejaz Ahmad KANDOO   +2 more
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