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Ecology and conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Trans-Himalayan region of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Western Himalaya

Trees, Forests and People, 2023
The Trans-Himalayan region is home to valuable medicinal plants with therapeutic properties. However, overgrazing, excessive harvesting, habitat destruction, and climate change have led to a decline in their wild populations.

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Tracing Ancient Migration Routes: Did Gloydius Pitvipers Disperse Across Paleo‐Tibet Through Temperate and Subtropical Corridors?

Ecology and Evolution
The Himalayan–Tibetan orogen has undergone complex paleoenvironmental transformations that shaped its biodiversity, yet the timing and sequence of surface uplift—and corresponding biogeographic scenarios for endemic Himalayan taxa—remain debated.
Sylvia Hofmann, Elán Pérez García, Morris Flecks, Daniel Jablonski, Chitra B. Baniya, Dennis Rödder, Joachim Schmidt   +6 more
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Confirmation of the Tibetan Brown Bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus) in Central Nepal Based on Genetic and Camera‐Trap Evidence

Ecology and Evolution
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) persists in small, fragmented populations across the Himalayan region; however, its subspecific identity and distribution in Nepal have long remained uncertain due to the absence of genetic evidence.
Rishi Baral, Ram Bahadur Gurung, Abhisek Sapkota, Naresh Subedi, Anthony J. Giordano, Rajan Prasad Paudel, Rabin Kadariya, Gopal Khanal, Kinoshita Kodzue, Toshio Tsubota, Michito Shimozuru   +10 more
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Current findings and future prospective of high-value trans Himalayan medicinal plant Lycium ruthenicum Murr: a systematic review

Clinical Phytoscience, 2022
Background The genus Lycium is commercially known for its nutrient dense goji-berries, among these berries, black goji-berries obtained from Lycium ruthenicum Murr are highly valued and widely used as traditional medicine in trans-himalayan cold desert ...
Shweta Saxena, Om Prakash Chaurasia, Mohan Singh Thakur   +2 more
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Provenance Shifts During Neogene Brahmaputra Delta Progradation Tied to Coupled Climate and Tectonic Change in the Eastern Himalaya

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021
The Bengal Basin preserves the erosional signals of coupled tectonic‐climatic change during late Cenozoic development of the Himalayan orogen, yet regional correlation and interpretation of these signals remains incomplete.
Paul M. Betka, Stuart N. Thomson, Ryan Sincavage, C. Zoramthara, C. Lalremruatfela, Karl A. Lang, Michael S. Steckler, Devojit Bezbaruah, Pradip Borgohain, Leonardo Seeber   +9 more
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Vulnerability of Tribal Communities to Climate Variability in Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India

Coğrafya Dergisi, 2023
India is home to many physiographic divisions, climatic regions, diverse cultures, and ethnicities. The greater Himalayan and trans-Himalayan regions are home to many tribal communities.
Pankaj Kumar, Ashwanı, Satyam Mıshra, Swati Thakur, Dilip Kumar, V.a.v Raman   +5 more
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Lahaul–Zanskar–Sham Valley Corridor in Indian Trans Himalayan Region Facilitates Dispersal and Gene Flow in Himalayan Ibex

Biology, 2023
Wildlife corridors that connect mosaic habitats in heterogeneous mountainous landscapes can be of high significance as they facilitate the genetic and demographic stability of free-ranging populations.
Gul Jabin, Stanzin Dolker, Bheem Dutt Joshi, Sujeet Kumar Singh, Kailash Chandra, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Mukesh Thakur   +6 more
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Field testing of different methods for monitoring mammals in Trans-Himalayas: A case study from Lahaul and Spiti

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Combined surveys based on non-invasive genetic methods and camera trapping increase chances of capturing most of the elusive species which are otherwise challenging to document, especially in high altitude areas due to tough terrains and inaccessibility.
Bheem Dutt Joshi, Amira Sharief, Vineet Kumar, Manish Kumar, Ritam Dutta, Romila Devi, Ashutosh Singh, Mukesh Thakur, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Kailash Chandra   +9 more
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Fresh and dry fruit production in Himalayan Kashmir, Sub-Himalayan Jammu and Trans-Himalayan Ladakh, India

Heliyon, 2021
Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh are two union territories (UT's) famous for their beauty and cool climate. Both the UT's are familiar with their horticulture production at the national and international level.
Rayees Ahmad, Barkat Hussain, Tariq Ahmad   +2 more
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Ascertaining glacier dynamics and geodetic mass changes in the Pangong Region of Trans-Himalayan Ladakh using remote sensing data

Data in Brief, 2022
Glaciers in the Himalayan arc are receding rapidly in the eastern and western parts as compared to other regions. Contrararily, the glaciers in the Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh are comparatively stable.
Irfan Rashid, Nadeem Ahmad Najar, Ulfat Majeed, Waseem Rasool   +3 more
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