Relict groups of spiny frogs indicate Late Paleogene-Early Neogene trans-Tibet dispersal of thermophile faunal elements by Sylvia Hofmann, Daniel Jablonski, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Rafaqat Masroor, Joachim Schmidt

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Genetic Variation in <i>Gaultheria nummularioides</i> (Ericaceae: Gaultherieae) from the Sky Islands of the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains by Jing Zhang, Xiaojuan Cheng, Peter W. Fritsch, Yirong Li, Shuda Yang, Lu Lu

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Development of daily bias-corrected ensemble precipitation estimates over the Upper Indus Basin of the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya by Kashif Jamal, Xin Li, Yingying Chen, Sajjad Haider, Muhammad Rizwan, Shakil Ahmad

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Changing discourses in the third pole: A systematic review of climate change impact on biodiversity in the Hindu Kush Himalaya by Nakul Chettri, Biraj Adhikari, Sunita Chaudhary, Kesang Wangchuk

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Stratification and SSR markers integration for promoting low chill peach (Prunus persica) hybridization in foot hills of Himalayas by RAJENDER KUMAR, D C DIMRI, N K SINGH, A K SINGH, KANCHAN KARKI, SHWETA UNIYAL, RAVI KUMAR, JITENDRA SINGH SHIVRAN, JYOTI BAJELI

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Application of in-situ gamma spectrometry for radiogenic heat production estimation in the Western Himalaya, Kohistan, and Karakoram in northern Pakistan by Muhammad Anees, Jonas Kley, Bernd Leiss, David Hindle, Ali Abbas Wajid, Bianca Wagner, Mumtaz M. Shah, Elco Luijendijk

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Herb stratum diversity and community structure in Gurez valley of Kashmir Himalaya: application of multivariate techniques in community analyses by Ashaq Ahmad Dar, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy

“…Multivariate analyses – classification (TWINSPAN) and ordination (indicator species analysis [ISA], non-metric multidimensional scaling [NMDS], and Canonical Correspondence Analysis [CCA]) were applied to data set collected from 32 plots across Gurez valley, Kashmir Himalaya to recognize the understory plant communities, determine the environmental predictors and highlight their significance. …”
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Meltwater runoff in a changing climate (1951–2099) at Chhota Shigri Glacier, Western Himalaya, Northern India by Markus Engelhardt, Paul Leclercq, Trude Eidhammer, Pankaj Kumar, Oskar Landgren, Roy Rasmussen

“…Meltwater runoff in the catchment area containing Chhota Shigri glacier (Western Himalaya) is simulated for the period 1951–2099. The applied mass-balance model is forced by downscaled products from four regional climate models with different horizontal resolution. …”
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Soil nutrients, microbial biomass, and crop response to organic amendments in rice cropping system in the Shiwaliks of Indian Himalayas by Richa Rajput, Priya Pokhriya, Pooja Panwar, A. Arunachalam, Kusum Arunachalam

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Living on the margins: Climate change impacts and adaptation by remote communities living in the Pacific Islands, the Himalaya and desert Australia by Digby Race, Popular Gentle, Supriya Mathew

“…This article synthesizes analysis of the climate change impacts on, and adaptation by, remote communities living in very different environments – the tropical islands of the South Pacific, the mountains of the Himalaya in Nepal, and the deserts of central Australia. …”
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Earthquake vulnerability assessment of the built environment in the city of Srinagar, Kashmir Himalaya, using a geographic information system by M. Fayaz, S. A. Romshoo, S. A. Romshoo, S. A. Romshoo, I. Rashid, R. Chandra, R. Chandra

“…<p>The study investigates the earthquake vulnerability of buildings in Srinagar, an urban city in the Kashmir Himalaya, India. The city, covering an area of around 246 km<span class="inline-formula">²</span> and divided into 69 municipal wards, is situated in the tectonically active and densely populated mountain ecosystem. …”
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Towards Bedmap Himalayas: development of an airborne ice-sounding radar for glacier thickness surveys in High-Mountain Asia by H. D. Pritchard, E. C. King, D. J. Goodger, M. McCarthy, C. Mayer, R. Kayastha

“…The manoeuvrability provided by helicopters and the ability of our system to detect glacier beds through thick, dirty, temperate ice makes it well suited to increase greatly the sample of measurements available for calibrating ice thickness models on the regional and global scale. The Bedmap Himalayas radar-survey system can reduce the uncertainty in present-day ice volumes and therefore in projections of when HMA's river catchments will lose this hydrological buffer against drought.…”
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Flora of Niti Valley: a cold arid region of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Western Himalaya, India by Amit Kumar, Monideepa Mitra, Bhupendra Adhikari, Gopal Rawat

“…Located in the extended buffer zone of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve in Western Himalaya, Niti valley represents a cold arid region. …”
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Quantifying leaf-trait co-variation and strategies for ecosystem functioning of Quercus leucotrichophora (Ban Oak) forest in Himalaya by Rajat Singh, Monika Rawat, Rajiv Pandey

“…The findings of the study provides insight into changes in leaf traits and the plant strategies at the temperate forests of the Himalayas and provide inputs for projection of future changes in leaf attributes and the environment's adaptation at Himalaya and regional level.…”
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Petrographic and Geochemical Analysis of Indus Sediments: Implications for Placer Gold Deposits, Peshawar Basin, NW Himalaya, Pakistan by Abdul Mateen, Ali Wahid, Hammad Tariq Janjuhah, Muhammad Saleem Mughal, Syed Haroon Ali, Numair Ahmed Siddiqui, Munib Ahmed Shafique, Olga Koumoutsakou, George Kontakiotis

“…The purpose of this study was to find placer gold deposits in alluvial sediments along the Indus River in the NW Himalaya of Pakistan. The investigated region was divided into five clusters based on river morphology. …”
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SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERNS AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF IXODID TICKS IN CATTLE OF MID HILL ZONE OF NORTH - WESTERN HIMALAYAS by Romita Sharma, Devina Sharma, Nirbhay K. Singh, Rajesh Chahota, Virender Pathak

“…A cross-sectional survey was conducted to study the distribution of ixodid ticks along with associated risk factor assessment in cattle (n=749) in the mid-hill zone of Himachal Pradesh in the northwestern Himalayas, India. The results revealed an overall tick prevalence rate of 68.6% with three tickpredominant species, viz. …”
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Patterns in plant species diversity along the altitudinal gradient in Dhauladhar mountain range of the North-West Himalaya in India by Natasha Sharma, Chandra Prakash Kala

“…The objective of the present study was to understand the patterns in plant species diversity along the altitudinal gradient in Dhauladhar mountain range of the Indian Himalayas. Nested plot method was employed for sampling trees, shrubs and herbs along the elevations from sub-tropical forests to sub-alpine forests, and Shannon-Weiner diversity index was used for calculation of plant species diversity. …”
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Effect of organic nutrient sources on productivity, profitability and quality of ginger (Zingiber officinale) in acid soils of Eastern Himalayas by BONIFACE LEPCHA, RAVIKANT AVASTHE, RAGHAVENDRA SINGH, N J SINGH, PALLABI PHUKAN

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Improvements in Sub-Catchment Fractional Snowpack and Snowmelt Parameterizations and Hydrologic Modeling for Climate Change Assessments in the Western Himalayas by Vishal Singh, Francisco Muñoz-Arriola

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Phenology and Diversity of Weeds in the Agriculture and Horticulture Cropping Systems of Indian Western Himalayas: Understanding Implications for Agro-Ecosystems by Shiekh Marifatul Haq, Fayaz A. Lone, Manoj Kumar, Eduardo Soares Calixto, Muhammad Waheed, Ryan Casini, Eman A. Mahmoud, Hosam O. Elansary

“…We studied weed infestation for five different agro-ecosystems in the part of Indian Western Himalayas represented by paddy, maize, mustard, apple and vegetable orchards. …”
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