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Nature's patchwork: How water sources and soil salinity determine the distribution and structure of halophytic plant communities in arid environments of the Eastern Pamir. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
The eastern part of the Pamir Mountains, located in Central Asia, is characterized by great climatic continentality and aridity. Wetlands developed in this hostile region are restricted to spring areas, terraces of shallow lakes or floodplains along ...
Monika Mętrak, Łukasz Chachulski, Dovutsho Navruzshoev, Paweł Pawlikowski, Elżbieta Rojan, Marcin Sulwiński, Małgorzata Suska-Malawska   +6 more
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Mycochemical Diversity and Therapeutic Potential of Hymenochaetoid Fungi from Central Asia: Regional and Global Perspectives

New Zealand Journal of Botany, Volume 64, Issue 1, March 2026.
Central Asia harbors a rich yet understudied assemblage of wood‐inhabiting Hymenochaetoid fungi. This review delivers the first comprehensive synthesis of 43 poroid species representing 18 genera documented across montane forests, steppes, and xeric habitats.
Yusufjon Gafforov, Milena Rašeta, Sylvie Rapior, Manzura Yarasheva, Oksana Mykchaylova, Rustamjon Allaberdiev, Şule İnci, Dilfuza Berdieva, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Shikhnazar Khodjaev, Dian‐Ming Hu, Weijun Yang, Abudujilili Abuduaini, Maria Letizia Taddei, Mengcen Wang, Islomjon Urinboev, Jiajia Chen   +16 more
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The Paleo‐Tethys Suture Zone in the Afghan Hindu Kush‒Pamir: Geo‐Thermochronology, Geochemistry, Tectonics

Tectonics, Volume 45, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract In the Afghan Hindu Kush, the 223–209 Ma (≤800°C) Salang batholith is part of the Silk‐Road magmatic arc that was built on ∼40‐km‐thick Turan‐Karakum block continental crust. The batholith constitutes the hanging wall of the Herat‐Panjshir‐Badakhshan—the Paleo‐Tethys—suture zone, vestige of the subducted Paleozoic‐early Mesozoic Paleo‐Tethys ...
Lothar Ratschbacher, Said Amin Hashimy, Hasan Malistani, Yasuhito Osanai, Jianhua Li, Zhao Yang, Bradley R. Hacker, Leander Franz, Hadi Karimi   +8 more
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Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Triggered the Red Clay to Loess‐Paleosol Shift on the Chinese Loess Plateau 2.7 Million Years Ago

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 4, 28 February 2026.
Abstract Widespread aeolian loess‐paleosol and red clay sediments on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) provide a globally unique terrestrial archive of Neogene–Quaternary climate. However, the timing and associated mechanisms of red clay to loess‐paleosol shift remain debated.
Xinxia Li, Hong Ao, Chunju Huang, Xiangyu Zhao, Jinyu Kou, Qiang Sun, Pingguo Yang, Ziyun Zhang, Xiaoke Qiang, Wei Li, Peng Zhang, Jiao Yao   +11 more
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A New Surface Rupture of the 1556 Huaxian M ∼ 8.5 Earthquake Revealed by Rock Surface Luminescence Dating of a Bedrock Fault Scarp and Colluvial Wedges

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 3, 16 February 2026.
Abstract Bedrock fault scarps and their associated colluvial wedges provide key evidence for reconstructing paleoearthquakes. We apply rock surface luminescence dating to a bedrock scarp on the Huashan fault in central China, using OSL‐depth profiles (DPs) from multiple heights. Results reveal two coseismic displacements of 6.8 and >1.0 m.
Ming Luo, Jie Chen, Zhijun Gong, Lewis A. Owen, Huili Yang, Xiaohong Jiang, Jinhui Yin, Wei Xu, Hua Wang   +8 more
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A transboundary study of spatiotemporal patterns of livestock predation and prey preferences by snow leopard and wolf in the Pamir

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Livestock depredation by the snow leopard and the wolf is an eliciting human-carnivore conflict across their overlapping ranges and augments the economic burden of the disadvantaged agro-pastoralist communities who share the mountain ecosystem with the ...
Jaffar Ud Din, Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Tahir Mehmood, Hussain Ali, Aziz Ali, Durriyyah Sharifah Hasan Adli, Yusoff Norma-Rashid   +6 more
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Examining geodetic glacier mass balance in the eastern Pamir transition zone

Journal of Glaciology, 2020
Glaciers in the eastern Pamir have reportedly been gaining mass during recent decades, even though glaciers in most other regions in High Mountain Asia have been in recession.
Mingyang Lv, Duncan J. Quincey, Huadong Guo, Owen King, Guang Liu, Shiyong Yan, Xiancai Lu, Zhixing Ruan   +7 more
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From shadows to data: first robust population assessment of snow leopards in Pakistan

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 2, February 2026.
The snow leopard Panthera uncia is a flagship species of the greater Himalayan region and symbolizes the integrity of this ecological system. Within the greater Himalayas, Pakistan holds special significance as the north of the country represents a confluence of three major mountain ranges (Hindu Kush, Pamir–Karakoram, and Himalaya).
Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Shoaib Hameed, Jaffar Ud Din, Hussain Ali, Shakeel Ahmad, Ian Durbach, Mehmood Ghaznavi, Mohsin Farooque, Naeem Iftikhar, Muhammad SamarHussain Khan   +9 more
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Deep fault sliding rates for Ka-Ping block of Xinjiang based on repeating earthquakes

Open Geosciences
The seismically active Ka-Ping Block within Xinjiang, China, represents a zone of potential earthquake hazards, and existing surface measurements cannot fully reflect the area’s sub-surface slip rates.
Gao Chaojun, Liu Daiqin, Li Jie, Song Chunyan, Yideresi Gulizinati, Yushan Ailixiati   +5 more
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Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Pamir yak (Bos grunniens)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
Pamir yak (Bos grunniens) is a yak breed from Pamir Plateau with strong adaptation to the high-elevation, cold and anoxic environments. Its complete mitochondrial genome was determined to be 16,323 bp long with a moderately asymmetric nucleotide ...
Xian Guo, Xiaoyun Wu, Min Chu, Pengjia Bao, Lin Xiong, Chunnian Liang, Xuezhi Ding, Jie Pei, Ping Yan   +8 more
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