Vegetation Characteristics Based Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Temperate Forests of Western Himalaya by Rajiv Pandey, Jyoti Sharma, Rajat Singh, Monika Rawat, Himani Saklani, Pankaj Kumar Tomar, Laxmikant Tiwari, Indra Dutt Bhatt, Tara Chand, Nirmalya Bala, Vijender Pal Panwar, Teodoro Semeraro

“…The present paper attempts to estimate the vulnerability of various temperate forests of Western Himalaya due to climate change by analyzing the patterns of different taxonomical indices, based on primary data i.e., vegetation data. …”
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Author Correction: Evidence of structural segmentation of the Uttarakhand Himalaya and its implications for earthquake hazard by Prantik Mandal, Raju Prathigadapa, D. Srinivas, Satish Saha, Gokul Saha

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Assessment of the water quality of Glacier-fed lake Neel Tal of Garhwal Himalaya, India by Rahul Kumar, Ramesh C. Sharma

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TRIASSIC STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION OF THE ANNAPURNA TETHYS HIMALAYA (MANANG AREA, CENTRAL NEPAL) by EDUARDO GARZANTI, ALDA NICORA, ANDREA TINTORI

Subjects: “…Tethys Himalaya…”
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Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Juniperus recurva (Cupressaceae), the Dropping Juniper from the Himalaya by Xinya Song, Jialiang Li, Sonam Tso, Siyu Xie, Lan Li, Qiyun Mao, Kangshan Mao

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An estimate of glacier mass balance for the Chandra basin, western Himalaya, for the period 1984–2012 by Sayli Atul Tawde, Anil V. Kulkarni, Govindasamy Bala

“…An improved understanding of fresh water stored in the Himalaya is crucial for water resource management in South Asia and can be inferred from glacier mass-balance estimates. …”
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Glacier changes between 1971 and 2016 in the Jankar Chhu Watershed, Lahaul Himalaya, India by SURESH DAS, MILAP CHAND SHARMA

“…Glacier changes in the Jankar Chhu Watershed (JCW) of Chandrabhaga (Chenab) basin, Lahaul Himalaya were worked out based on Corona and Sentinel 2A images between 1971 and 2016. …”
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Impact of Environmental Gradients on Phenometrics of Major Forest Types of Kumaon Region of the Western Himalaya by Vikas Dugesar, Koppineedi V. Satish, Manish K. Pandey, Prashant K. Srivastava, George P. Petropoulos, Akash Anand, Mukunda Dev Behera

“…The present study investigates the effect of an elevational gradient, temperature, and precipitation on the start of the season (SOS) and end of the season (EOS), in major forest types of the Kumaon region of the western Himalaya. The analysis made use of the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series that was observed by the optical datasets between the years 2001 and 2019. …”
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Proficient Lignocellulolytic Novel Bacterial Isolates from Diversified Galiyat Forests of Lower Himalaya by Malik Owais Ullah Awan, Akhtar Iqbal, Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid, Usman Irshad, Farhan Hafeez, Farid Ullah, Muhammad Irshad, Gabrijel Ondrasek, Ivan Mustac, Rashid Nazir

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Ground Investigations and Detection and Monitoring of Landslides Using SAR Interferometry in Gangtok, Sikkim Himalaya by Rajinder Bhasin, Gökhan Aslan, John Dehls

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Co‐designing conservation interventions through participatory action research in the Indian Trans‐Himalaya by M. Khanyari, R. Dorjay, S. Lobzang, A. Bijoor, K. Suryawanshi

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Modelling glacier-bed overdeepenings and possible future lakes for the glaciers in the Himalaya—Karakoram region by A. Linsbauer, H. Frey, W. Haeberli, H. Machguth, M.F. Azam, S. Allen

“…In this study, the bed overdeepenings for ~28 000 glaciers (40 775 km2) of the Himalaya-Karakoram region are modelled using GlabTop2 (Glacier Bed Topography model version 2), in which ice thickness is inferred from surface slope by parameterizing basal shear stress as a function of elevation range for each glacier. …”
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Land Degradation, Overland Flow, Soil Erosion, and Nutrient Loss in the Eastern Himalayas, India by Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Aman Rai, Kamal Abdelrahman, Suresh Chand Rai, Anuj Tiwari

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Up-glacier propagation of surface lowering of Yala Glacier, Langtang Valley, Nepal Himalaya by Sojiro Sunako, Koji Fujita, Takeki Izumi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Akiko Sakai, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha

“…We quantify the surface elevation changes along Yala Glacier in Langtang Valley, Nepal Himalaya, since 1981 using geodetic methods to understand the recent evolution and current state of small debris-free glaciers across the region. …”
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Antibiotic-resistant soil bacteria in high-altitude (5000–6000 m) soils of the Himalaya by Blaž STRES

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Habitat overlap and interspecific competition between snow leopards and leopards in the Central Himalayas of Nepal by Narayan Prasad Koju, Paul Buzzard, Arati Shrestha, Shailendra Sharma, Kai He, Juan Li, Randall C. Kyes, Cheng Chen, William V. Beisch

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Exploring overlooked factors in seismic hazard evaluation of subduction zones: examples from the Himalaya by Hu, Wan-Lin

“…This study also evaluates the uncertainty that may result from the subjective interpretation of seismic reflection images in the frontal Himalaya.…”
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Factors affecting the occurrence and activity of clouded leopards, common leopards and leopard cats in the Himalayas by Can, E, Bhupendra, Y, Ross, J, D'Cruze, N, Johnson, P, Macdonald, D

“…Insofar as this study has extended the known extreme boundary of the clouded leopard’s geographic range to encompass Langtang National Park in the Nepali Himalayas. …”

Review of: Staley, John: Words for my Brother: Travels Between the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas by Parkin, RJ

Subsidence history of the north Indian continental margin, Zanskar-Ladakh Himalaya, NW India by Corfield, R, Watts, A, Searle, M