Evaluation of water quality and dam for sustaining the fish population dynamics by Poonam Tiwari, Mahidhar Prasad Tiwari

“…The river of Garhwal Himalaya harbors a rich aquatic diversity, the most common endemic fish species that inhabit this fresh water is the Schizothorax species. …”
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Aquatic protected area system in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: establishment, challenges and prospects by Haoran Li, Haoran Li, Lu Tan, Xianfu Li, Xianfu Li, Xianfu Li, Qinghua Cai, Qinghua Cai

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Crop and varietal diversification for enhancing productivity and profitability of rice fallow system in eastern Himalayan region by L K BAISHYA, S S RATHORE, D SARKAR, T JAMIR, D J RAJKHOWA

“…Rice fallow is predominant system in eastern Himalaya, a reason for low agricultural productivity in the region. …”
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Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology and fluvial basin evolution of the Liuqu Conglomerate within the Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone: A critical geochronometer for the collision tectonic... by Yanxue Xie, Yildirim Dilek

“…LQC is a ∼5 km–thick, late Mesozoic–Cenozoic molasse deposit occurring strictly within the Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone (YZSZ) and is tectonically overlain to the north by the Cretaceous Xigaze ophiolite and to the south by the Mesozoic Tethyan Himalaya sequence. It consists of matrix- and clast-supported conglomerates with sandstone intercalations, and its matrix includes poorly to moderately sorted sandstone and mudstone. …”
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Possible Consequences of Climate Change on Survival, Productivity and Reproductive Performance, and Welfare of Himalayan Yak (<i>Bos grunniens</i>) by S. Sapkota, K. P. Acharya, R. Laven, N. Acharya

“…Yak are adapted to the extreme cold, low oxygen, and high solar radiation of the Himalaya. Traditionally, they are kept at high altitude pastures during summer, moving lower in the winter. …”
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Analysing the elevation-distributed hydro-climatic regime of the snow covered and glacierised Hunza Basin in the upper Indus by Aftab Nazeer, Aftab Nazeer, Aftab Nazeer, Shreedhar Maskey, Thomas Skaugen, Michael E. McClain, Michael E. McClain

“…In the high altitude Hindukush Karakoram Himalaya (HKH) mountains, the complex weather system, inaccessible terrain and sparse measurements make the elevation-distributed precipitation and temperature among the most significant unknowns. …”
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Calidad bromatológica y fisicoquímica de Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam) producidas en la zona centro de Veracruz by María del Rosario Dávila Lezama, Teresita Ramírez Hernández, Luz Irene Rojas Avelizapa, María Antonieta Rocío Juárez Juárez, Enríquez Ruvalcaba Vidal

“… Moringa oleifera Lam es un árbol originario del Himalaya, desde el noreste de Pakistán hasta el norte de Bengala del oeste en la India, es conocido como el árbol milagroso o el árbol de la vida. …”
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Phytochemical, Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Activities of Gaultheria Trichophylla Royle by Shah Zaman, Fakhria A. Al-Joufi, Muhammad Zafar, Muhammad Zahoor

“…<i>Gaultheria trichophylla</i> fruit is used by the indigenous people to treat asthma, headache, and as an appetizer in the alpine and sub-alpine regions of Western Himalaya. No studies exist on the antimicrobial significance of this species. …”
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Assessment of GPM-Era Satellite Products’ (IMERG and GSMaP) Ability to Detect Precipitation Extremes over Mountainous Country Nepal by Bikash Nepal, Dibas Shrestha, Shankar Sharma, Mandira Singh Shrestha, Deepak Aryal, Nitesh Shrestha

“…Two recent satellite rainfall estimates (SREs) from Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)-era—Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG-V06) and gauge calibrated Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP-V07) are evaluated for their spatiotemporal accuracy and ability to capture extreme precipitation events using 279 gauge stations from southern slope of central Himalaya, Nepal, between 2014 and 2019. The overall result suggests that both SREs can capture the spatiotemporal precipitation variability, although they both underestimated the observed precipitation amount. …”
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Time-series RNA-Seq transcriptome profiling reveals novel insights about cold acclimation and de-acclimation processes in an evergreen shrub of high altitude by Nikita Rathore, Prakash Kumar, Nandita Mehta, Mohit Kumar Swarnkar, Ravi Shankar, Amit Chawla

“…Here, we studied variation in transcriptome and physiological adjustments occurring across the year at high elevation environments in the leaf tissue of Rhododendron anthopogon, an evergreen shrub of Himalaya. The samples were collected at 12 different time-points, from August until snowfall in November 2017, and then from June to September 2018. …”
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Changes in ecological conditions may influence intraguild competition: inferring interaction patterns of snow leopard with co-predators by Ranjana Pal, Anshu Panwar, Surendra P. Goyal, Sambandam Sathyakumar

“…Methods The study was conducted in the Upper Bhagirathi basin, Western Himalaya, India. We analyzed around 4 years of camera trap monitoring data to understand seasonal spatial and temporal interactions of the snow leopard with common leopard and woolly wolf were assessed in the greater and trans-Himalayan habitats, respectively. …”
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Predicting phytochemical diversity of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) across eco-climatic zones and elevation in Uttarakhand using Generalized Additive Model by Deepti Tiwari, Pushpa Kewlani, Kailash S. Gaira, Indra D. Bhatt, R. C. Sundriyal, Veena Pande

“…Abstract The present study uses a systematic approach to explore the phytochemical composition of medicinal plants from Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya. The phytochemical composition of medicinal plants was analyzed based on (i) the presence of different chemical groups and (ii) bioactive compounds. …”
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Lithospheric heterogeneities of northeast India and Indo-Burma region: Geodynamic implications by O.P. Mishra

“…The low-V associated with the thick piles of sediments in the Bengal (>20 km) and Central Burma Molasse (≤12 km) Basin supported by the conspicuous distribution of low-Bouger gravity anomaly, which may have contributed significantly to major load along with an overthrust load of westward moving Indo-Burma ranges over the Indian lithosphere, which may amplify the stresses already acting on the Indian Plate due to load of the Himalaya, and making the region seismically more vulnerable. …”
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An Investigation on Seasonal and Diurnal Cycles of TOA Shortwave Radiations from DSCOVR/EPIC, CERES, MERRA-2, and ERA5 by Young-Kwon Lim, Dong L. Wu, Kyu-Myong Kim, Jae N. Lee

“…MERRA-2 produces more ice/liquid water content than ERA5 over the tropical warm pool, leading to positive SW biases in cloud and radiance, while both reanalyses underestimate the observed SW radiance from EPIC in the stratus-topped region off the western coast of US/Mexico in the boreal summer. Himalaya/Tibet region in the boreal spring/summer and the midlatitude Southern Hemisphere in the boreal winter are the regions where MERRA-2 and ERA5 deviate largely from EPIC, but their deviations have the opposite sign. …”
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Influence of forest fire episodes on the distribution of gaseous air pollutants over Uttarakhand, India by Yesobu Yarragunta, Shuchita Srivastava, Debashis Mitra, Harish Chandra Chandola

“…Widespread forest fire events occurred in the foothills of North Western Himalaya during 24 April to 2 May 2016 (Event-1) and 20–30 May 2018 (Event-2). …”
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New progress and trend in ten aspects of lithium exploration practice and theoretical research in China in the past decade by WANG Denghong, DAI Hongzhang, LIU Shanbao, LI Jiankang, WANG Chenghui, LOU Debo, YANG Yueqing, LI Peng

“…In view of the rigid demand for lithium resources due to the rapid development of strategic emerging industries, it is suggested to strengthen a) the investigation, research, development and utilization of new types of lithium resources with lepidolite as the main industrial mineral and sedimentary-type lithium resources with Li-bearing clay as the main lithium resources; b) the research and prospecting of the Paleozoic and even Precambrian lithium deposits; c) the exploration of new lithium mineralization belts such as Altyn Tagh, Himalaya, Gangdise and western slope of Great Hinggan Mountains; d) the research on new mechanisms of dynamic management of lithium resources under market economy; e) the advanced research and resource reserve on lithium isotope as the raw material of controllable nuclear fusion, for leading the development of high-end mining industry.…”
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Transpressional tectonics along the Karakoram fault zone, northern Ladakh: constraints on Tibetan extrusion by Searle, M, Weinberg, R, Dunlap, W

“…The Tibetan plateau north of the Himalaya has approximately double normal crustal thickness (60-75 km) and has been homogeneously shortened since the India-Asia collision at 60-50 Ma ago, yet, with minimal erosion rates, has almost no middle or deep crustal rocks exposed at the surface. …”

Spectral quality assessment of Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 bands for glacier identification in Upper Indus Basin by Hassan, Syed Najam Ul, Md. Reba, Mohd. Nadzri, Hussain, Dostdar, Ahmed, Aftab

“…Glacier studies of Hindu Kush Karakoram Himalaya (HKKH) are inadequate where, the stability of glaciers in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) of HKKH is known for anomaly studies. …”

Analysis of Influencing Factors of Heavy Metals and Non-Point Source Pollution in Typical Areas of Tethys Himalayan Tectonic Domain by Jialu An, Xinjie Zha, Hongcai Wang, Liyuan Deng, Yizhuo Yang, Yi Wang, Jin Di, Wenya Zhao

“…In this study, 44 water samples and 55 soil samples from Gangba County, a typical agricultural and pastoral area in the Tethys Himalaya tectonic domain, served as research objects. …”
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A preliminary study of the geothermal geological characteristics and exploration potential of the Sichuan Basin by Dong SUN, Jinxi LI, Nan CAO, Zhiwu LI, Zhipeng ZHANG, Xiaoguo XIE, Mengyu YUAN, Hongyan CAI

“…The Sichuan Basin located in the intersection of the Tethys−Himalaya and Pacific domains is a multicycle sedimentary basin surrounded by orogenic belts. …”
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