A new ancient lineage of ablepharine skinks (Sauria: Scincidae) from eastern Himalayas with notes on origin and systematics of the group by Zeeshan A. Mirza, Andrey M. Bragin, Harshal Bhosale, Gaurang G. Gowande, Harshil Patel, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

“…The Himalayas represent a renowned biodiversity hotspot and an important biogeographic realm that has influenced origin and diversification of multiple taxa. …”
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Pteridophyte species richness in the central Himalaya is limited by cold climate extremes at high elevations and rainfall seasonality at low elevations by Hong Qian, Michael Kessler, Ole R. Vetaas

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Phytotoxicity of common weeds on germination, seedling growth, NPK uptake and chlorophyll content of four hill crops of Garhwal Himalaya by Kejum Padu, Vinod Prasad Khanduri, Bhupendra Singh, Deepa Rawat, Manoj Kumar Riyal, Kewat Sanjay Kumar

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DNA barcoding of Geometridae moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera): a preliminary effort from Namdapha National Park, Eastern Himalaya by Vikas Kumar, Shantanu Kundu, Rajasree Chakraborty, Abesh Sanyal, Angshuman Raha, Oyndrila Sanyal, Rahul Ranjan, Avas Pakrashi, Kaomud Tyagi, Kailash Chandra

“…The present study generated DNA barcode sequence of 44 Geometridae moths from Namdapha National Park in Eastern Himalaya and identified them through wing pattern and genitalia structure. …”
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Delineation of partial melts and crustal heterogeneities within the crust beneath Kumaon Himalaya, India from Lg wave attenuation by Mahesh Prasad Parija, Sudesh Kumar, Arjun V H

“…The estimate Qo values range from 63 ± 2 and 203 ± 25, with the lowest value in the Lesser Himalaya and the highest across part of the Indo Gangetic Plain and Siwalik Himalaya. …”
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Intraoceanic Subduction System Within the Neo‐Tethys: Evidence From Late Cretaceous Arc Magmatic Rocks of the Eastern Himalaya by Zeming Zhang, Wentao An, Richard M. Palin, Huixia Ding, Xin Dong, Zuolin Tian

“…When combined with the existence of Late Mesozoic and intraoceanic arc‐type magmatic rocks in the western Himalaya, we suggest that a huge Late Cretaceous subduction system operated within the eastern Neo‐Tethys Ocean. …”
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Corrigendum to “Carbonaceous matter in the atmosphere and glaciers of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau: An investigative review” [Environ.... by Chaoliu Li, Fangping Yan, Shichang Kang, Caiqing Yan, Zhaofu Hu, Pengfei Chen, Shaopeng Gao, Chao Zhang, Cenlin He, Susan Kaspari, Aron Stubbins

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Atmospheric Brown Clouds in the Himalayas: first two years of continuous observations at the Nepal Climate Observatory-Pyramid (5079 m) by P. Bonasoni, P. Laj, A. Marinoni, M. Sprenger, F. Angelini, J. Arduini, U. Bonafè, F. Calzolari, T. Colombo, S. Decesari, C. Di Biagio, A. G. di Sarra, F. Evangelisti, R. Duchi, MC. Facchini, S. Fuzzi, G. P. Gobbi, M. Maione, A. Panday, F. Roccato, K. Sellegri, H. Venzac, GP. Verza, P. Villani, E. Vuillermoz, P. Cristofanelli

“…This paper provides a detailed description of the atmospheric conditions characterizing the high Himalayas, thanks to continuous observations begun in March 2006 at the Nepal Climate Observatory-Pyramid (NCO-P) located at 5079 m a.s.l. on the southern foothills of Mt. …”
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Geochemistry of eclogites of the Tso Morari complex, Ladakh, NW Himalayas: Insights into trace element behavior during subduction and exhumation by Mallika K. Jonnalagadda, Nitin R. Karmalkar, Raymond A. Duraiswami

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Re–Os and Sr Isotopic Study of Permian–Triassic Sedimentary Rocks from the Himalaya: Shale Chronology and Carbonate Diagenesis by Anirban Mandal, Gyana Ranjan Tripathy, Vineet Goswami, Lukáš Ackerman, Suraj K. Parcha, Rakesh Chandra

“…Sedimentary rocks from the Himalayas are well-preserved archives of the Neo-Tethys oceanic conditions. …”
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Unravelling the hidden ethnic fermented treasure of the Himalayas - A review on the traditionally fermented beverages of the Northwest Indian Himalayan Region by Shikha Tomar, Kumud Pant, Promila Sharma, Somya Sinha, Debasis Mitra

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Alleviation of drought stress in maize (Zea mays L.) by using endogenous endophyte Bacillus subtilis in North West Himalayas by Gaurav Sood, Rajesh Kaushal, Minakshi Sharma

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Growth response of seven multipurpose tree species to climatic factors: A case study from northwestern Himalayas, India by Sucharita Panda, D.R. Bhardwaj, C.L. Thakur, Prashant Sharma, Dhirender Kumar

“…Thus, the present study was conducted to assess the growth response of seven multipurpose tree species (MPTs), namely Bauhinia variegata, Celtis australis, Grewia optiva, Paulownia fortunei, Toona ciliata, Ulmus villosa and Melia composita to local climate variables, viz. temperature as well as rainfall (seasonal, monthly, average) and CO2 level by evaluating the climatic signal in tree ring chronologies at Solan district, India (altitude 1 250 m) in the mid-hills of the northwestern Himalayas. The results indicated that only the maximum, rainy season temperature and CO2 level varied significantly (P < 0.05) between 1991 and 2017. …”
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Geomorphological and Statistical Assessment of Tilt-Block Tectonics in the Garhwal Synform: Implications for the Active Tectonics, Garhwal Lesser Himalaya, India by Ashish Rawat, Sayandeep Banerjee, Yaspal Sundriyal

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Evaluation of Nutritional, Phytochemical, and Mineral Composition of Selected Medicinal Plants for Therapeutic Uses from Cold Desert of Western Himalaya by Radha, Manoj Kumar, Sunil Puri, Ashok Pundir, Sneh Punia Bangar, Sushil Changan, Poonam Choudhary, E. Parameswari, Ahmad Alhariri, Mahesh Kumar Samota, Rahul D. Damale, Surinder Singh, Mukesh K. Berwal, Sangram Dhumal, Anilkumar G. Bhoite, M. Senapathy, Anshu Sharma, Bharat Bhushan, Mohamed Mekhemar

“…It was found that rural people in western Himalaya are dependent on wild medicinal plants, and certain steps must be taken to conserve these plants from extinction in the cold desert of Himalayan region. …”
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Late Oligocene to Early Pliocene Exhumation and Structural Development in the Western Himalaya, Northern Pakistan: Implications for the Cenozoic Metamorphic Overprint by Irum Irum, Humaad Ghani, Edward R. Sobel, Gerold Zeilinger, Uwe Altenberger

“…New middle Miocene to Pliocene (~14–3 Ma) apatite fission track (AFT) cooling ages combined with published K–Ar/Ar–Ar and zircon fission track (ZFT) ages from the Hazara and Swat regions of Pakistan are used to explain the Oligocene to Pliocene structural evolution in the Western Himalaya. The structural model explains the distribution of K–Ar/Ar–Ar ages in three distinct age groups (Proterozoic, Paleozoic-Mesozoic, and Eocene to Oligocene). …”
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Understanding conflict and co-existence among Spiti Bhot community and large carnivores in high Himalaya: The case of Himalayan wolves by Salvador Lyngdoh, Bilal Habib

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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown and meteorology on the air quality of Srinagar city: A temperate climatic region in Kashmir Himalayas by Mohammad Asif, Pranav Mahajan

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Rule-based fuzzy inference system for landslide susceptibility mapping along national highway 7 in Garhwal Himalayas, India by Shubham Badola, Varun Narayan Mishra, Surya Parkash, Manish Pandey

“…The Mountainous terrain,in the Himalayas is experiencing rapid development in a bewildering manner, which makes it more susceptible to landslides. …”
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Propagation of <i>Jasminum parkeri</i>: A Critically Endangered Wild Ornamental Woody Shrub from Western Himalaya by Ujala Kashyap, Anjali Chandel, Diksha Sharma, Sonali Bhardwaj, Bhavya Bhargava

“…<i>Jasminum parkeri</i> Dunn is a narrowly endemic, critically endangered woody ornamental shrub confined to sub-temperate zone of Western Himalayas, and rediscovered from its type locality after a lapse of about 100 years. …”
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