The Mustang District, located in north-west Nepal, is historically known as an important NScorridor following the course of the Kali Gandaki River and linking the Tibetan plateau to theIndian plains. Historical sources describing the region are scarce or even non-existent for periodspreceding the 7th century CE. Despite this lack of written sources...
India's diverse vegetation and landscapes provide an opportunity to understand the responses of vegetation to climate change. By examining pollen and fossil records along with carbon isotopes of organic matter and leaf wax, this review uncovers the rich vegetational history of India. Notably, during the late Miocene (8 to 6 Ma), the transition from...
The large quantities of glaciers, snow, and permafrost provide much of the fresh water for millions of people in the Himalayas and downstream. In recent decades, the Himalayan glaciers have been rapidly losing mass. However, proper studies of the local meteorology, climate, and glaciers in this region are limited by the paucity of high-altitude obs...
Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology
Cryoconite is a granular structure present on the glaciers and ice sheets found in polar regions including the Himalayas. It is composed of organic and inorganic matter which absorb solar radiations and reduce ice surface albedo, therefore impacting the melting and retreat of glaciers. Though climate warming has a serious impact on Himalayan glacie...
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The present study encompasses twelve Plusiinae species, shedding light on their taxonomy, and geographical distribution. Among these, four species viz. Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, [1858]), Cornutiplusia circumflexa (Linnaeus, 1767), Autographa nigrisigna (Walker, [1858]), and Sclerongenia jessica (Butler, 1878) are reported for the first time from ...
Published in Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
The Himalayan region is adversely affected by the increasing anthropogenic emissions from the adjacent Indo-Gangetic plain. However, source apportionment studies for the Himalayan region that are crucial for estimating CO concentration, are grossly insufficient, to say the least. It is in this context that our study reported here assumes significan...
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Agroforestry is an age-old practise of integrating farming with practises, preferably on the same unit of land on sustainable basis. There is tremendous scope for Agroforestry because India has achieved self-sufficiency in food production. Now its attention is becoming more focused on the ecological problems and shortage of fuel, fodder and other o...
