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Sighting of Tibetan Wolf Canis lupus chanko in the Greater Himalayan range of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Uttarakhand, India: a new record

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2010
In India, the Tibetan Wolf Canis lupus chanko is distributed in the Trans-Himalaya region. We report the sighting of Tibetan Wolf from the Bedini-Ali area that falls in the Greater Himalayan range and is located in the transition zone of Nanda Devi ...
T. Bhattacharya, S. Sathyakumar
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An application of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale to assess food security in rural communities of Nepal

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2019
The state of food (in)security in rural communities of different ecological zones of the Kaligandaki Basin, Nepal, is assessed using a Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS).
Rishikesh Pandey, Douglas K. Bardsley
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Prioritizing conservation and participatory mapping of ethnomedicinal plant resources in Western Ladakh, Indian trans-Himalaya

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
The Himalayan region is home to a rich array of wild medicinal plants that play a vital role in providing livelihoods and health security of the local communities. However, excessive exploitation of these plant resources driven by the growing demand from
Kunzes Angmo, B. Adhikari, Gopal S. Rawat   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya [PDF]

, 2018
The Seventh Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya took place at Hotel Shanker in Kathmandu on 25-27 July ...
O\u27Neill, Alexander James, O\u27Neill, Alexander J.   +1 more
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Green road transportation management and environmental sustainability: The impact of population density

Heliyon, 2023
The objective of the study is to examine the moderating role of population density in the relation between road transportation and environment sustainability of South Asian countries from 1990 to 2014.
Ashraf Ud Din, Jian Ming, Imran Ur Rahman, Heesup Han, Sunghoon Yoo, Rakan Radi Alhrahsheh   +5 more
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Hydrogeochemistry, Geothermometry, and Sourcing of High Dissolved Boron, Tungsten, and Chlorine Concentrations in the Trans-Himalayan Hotsprings of Ladakh, India

Hydrology, 2023
Boron (B) and Tungsten (W) are often found enriched in high-temperature geothermal waters associated with the development of subduction-related mafic to felsic arc magma.
Arif H. Ansari, Veeru Kant Singh, Pankaj Kumar, Mukund Sharma, Anupam Sharma, Satyakam Patnaik, Gurumurthy P. Gundiga, Ishwar Chandra Rahi, Mohammad Arif Ansari, AL Ramanathan   +9 more
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Observations on the distribution of Blue Sheep Pseudois nayaur (Hodgson, 1833), in North West Trans-Himalaya, India

Records of the Zoological Survey of India
Blue Sheep is one of the common ungulates of the Himalaya and trans-Himalaya. To infer the population of this species, field surveys were undertaken during 2014-15 and 2015-16 in Ladakh, Kinnaur and Lahaul areas.
Anil Kumar
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Artemisia kargilensis (Asteraceae), a new species from Ladakh (Trans-Himalaya), India

Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy, 2023
A new species, Artemisia kargilensis, is described here from Ladakh (Trans-Himalaya), India. The new species can be distinguished from its allied congeners Artemisia salsoloides Willd. and A. saposhnikovii Krasch.
Liyaqat Ali, A. A. Khuroo, A. H. Ganie, Islam Tajamul   +3 more
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Phosphorus limits the growth of bacterial and eukaryotic primary producers in recently deglaciated High Arctic soils

Oikos, EarlyView.
Glaciers are receding at unprecedented rates worldwide, exposing large areas of barren sediment that are quickly colonized by microbes. Nutrient availability is a critical driver of early ecosystem succession, but in the High Arctic its role has remained uncertain.
Steven K. Schmidt, Jannetta N. Robinson, Adam J. Solon, James A. Bradley, Anastasia S. Hambi, Rachel R. Rubin, Charles Oliver, Ben W. Johnson, Mihai O. Cimpoiasu, Trevor P. Irons, Oliver Kuras, Anna Bergstrom, Pacifica Sommers   +12 more
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Geospatial modelling of soil erosion and risk assessment in Indian Himalayan region—A study of Uttarakhand state

Environmental Advances, 2021
Soil erosion is the major cause of land degradation, which has become a worldwide environmental problem that degrades soil productivity and water quality.
Justin George K, Suresh Kumar, Rani M Hole   +2 more
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