Western Himalaya
Why they eat, what they eat: patterns of wild edible plants consumption in a tribal area of Western Himalaya
... Background: From time immemorial, wild plants have been used for edible purposes. They still continue to be a major source of nutrition for tribal people. However, unfortunately, their use is now declining. This has ...
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Traditional use of medicinal plants among the tribal communities of Chhota Bhangal, Western Himalaya
... The study reveals that in absence of modern health facility people in the area depend on plants for medicinal pur- poses. Based on the initial reconnaissance survey and group discussions where emphasis was on ...
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Tree Regeneration Pattern And Size Class Distribution In Anthropogenically Disturbed Sub-Alpine Treeline Areas Of Indian Western Himalaya
... spectabilis, A. densa, A. pindrow, and B. utilis are reported to form timberline on southern slopes of the Himalaya [50], [51], [52]. Furthermore altitude is another important factors which determine the ...
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Biomass production and carbon stock inventory of high-altitude dry temperate land use systems in North Western Himalaya
... The LUS recorded the aboveground biomass in as- cending order as barren land, agriculture, horticulture, agri-horticulture, agri-horti-silviculture and silvipasture respectively. Kumar et al. (2012) also reported the ...
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THE ROLE OF LAND SURFACE SCHEMES IN THE REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (REGCM) FOR SEASONAL SCALE SIMULATIONS OVER WESTERN HIMALAYA
... The vegetation cover over the region of interest as used by both LSPS (BATS and CLM) is shown in Figure 6. It can be seen from the diagram that vegetation cover in the RegCM-CLM simulations has a greater spatial coverage ...
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Climatic and geologic controls on suspended sediment flux in the Sutlej River Valley, western Himalaya
... In this study, we analyze daily river discharge and sus- pended sediment concentration (SSC) data from the Sutlej River Valley in the western Himalaya to study the sediment flux (i.e. discharge multiplied ...
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Plant-derived utility products: knowledge comparison across gender, age and education from a tribal landscape of western Himalaya
... of western Himalaya not only use plants as medicine [7] and food [23], but also for devel- oping daily use household ...the western Himalayan region and are easily available in their vicinity [53, ...
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Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Usage of Wild Plants in Theog Forest Division, Himachal Pradesh, North Western Himalaya
... North Western Himalaya has been regarded as a veritable emporium of plant resources, largely for medicinal and aromatic plants (Chauhan, 1999; 2003) due to its geographical position and edapho- climatic ...
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Role of multifractal analysis in understanding the preparation zone for large size earthquake in the North-Western Himalaya region
... have used Li et al. (1994) method to determine the scal- ing region in the western Himalaya. Three point curves for q = − 2.0, 0.0, 2.0 estimated in selected region for two dif- ferent subsets i.e. subsets ...
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Herb layer biomass of the riverine forest along song river in foothills of western himalaya, uttarakhand, india
... Study Site: The study site riverine ecosystem of Song River under investigation is present in Eastern part of Doon Valley, Western Himalaya, Uttarakhand. Song River rises in Tehri district and unites with ...
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Rapid early Miocene exhumation of the Ladakh batholith, western Himalaya
... the western Himalaya occurred in response to rock uplift along a major-northward dipping thrust that underlies the ...High Himalaya in Early Miocene ...
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Discrimination of Seasonal Snow Cover in Astore Basin, Western Himalaya using Fuzzy Membership Function of Object-Based Classification
... high-altitude western Himalaya and is one of the sub-catchments of upper Indus basin which is situated in the eastern side of the Nanga Parbat mountain in Pakistan having the geographic extent ranges ...
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Antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of methanol extracts of Arnebia benthamii (Wall ex. G. Don) Johnston—a critically endangered medicinal plant of North western Himalaya
... West Himalaya (Dar et ...for western Himalaya and also figures among the 59 medicinal plants prioritized for conserva- tion due to high extinction threat and is being classified as threatened ...
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Ethnobotanical knowledge among the semi-pastoral Gujjar tribe in the high altitude (Adhwari’s) of Churah subdivision, district Chamba, Western Himalaya
... The present investigation was undertaken in Churah sub- division of district Chamba of Himachal Pradesh which is located in the Western Himalaya. The district lies between 32° 11 ′ to 33° 13 ′ N latitude ...
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Cenozoic sedimentary records of climate-tectonic coupling in the Western Himalaya
... Although there has been some debate in the past concerning whether wetter climates might result in more or less erosion (Burbank et al. 1993), studies of the Quaternary evolution of the Indus and Ganges deltas have shown ...
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Medicinal flora and ethnoecological knowledge in the Naran Valley, Western Himalaya, Pakistan
... Methods: The Naran valley in the north-western Pakistan is among such valleys and occupies a distinctive geographical location on the edge of the Western Himalaya range, close to the Hindu Kush range ...
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Peculiar Characteristics of Fragmentation of Glaciers: A Case Study of Western Himalaya, India
... in Himalaya varies from northwest to northeast according to the variation in altitude and latitude of the ...as Himalaya, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Cascade Range, Southern Andes as well as tropical summits ...
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Processes governing the mass balance of Chhota Shigri Glacier (western Himalaya, India) assessed by point-scale surface energy balance measurements
... Two meteorological stations (AWS1 and AWS2) have been operated on Chhota Shigri Glacier (Fig. 1). AWS1 was operated between 12 August 2012 and 4 October 2013, in the middle of ablation zone (4670 m a.s.l.) on an almost ...
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Livelihood of Two Local Communities and Their Dependence on Forest Resources: A Case Study from Western Himalaya, Dachigam National Park, Jammu & Kashmir, India
... The data on monthly average fuel wood collection and consumption were estimated on the basis of questionnaire survey and it was found that the average fuel wood collection was found to b[r] ...
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Physico-chemical limnology of a shallow lake in the floodplains of western Himalaya from last four decades: present status
... is referred to as the “Paradise on earth” is famous for its tall and towering mountains with snow capped peaks, the lush green margs (meadows), dense forests, undulat- ing caraways, smooth and fertile valleys, gushing ...
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