Assessing green finance and technological innovation's contribution to carbon emission reduction in mineral-based economies of the belt and road initiative by Xiaoli Liao, Mengye Sun, Yali Pham

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A Chromosome-level genome assembly of the alpine medicinal plant Bergenia purpurascens (Saxifragaceae) by Xue-Die Liu, Alex D. Twyford, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Ya-Huang Luo, Sheng-Ping Ming, Bo-Yun Yang, Lian-Ming Gao, Shao-Lin Tan

“…Bergenia purpurascens (Saxifragaceae) is an important alpine endemic species of the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains (HHM), with this species being used as a source of medicine and as an ornamental plant. …”
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Modeling and Mapping of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock Using Sentinel-2 Imagery in Chure Region, Nepal by Ananta Poudel, Him Lal Shrestha, Niraj Mahat, Garima Sharma, Sahara Aryal, Rupesh Kalakheti, Basanta Lamsal

“…Accurate assessment of Aboveground Biomass (AGB) is critical for the sustainable management of forests, especially in the Chure region, a fragile and young mountainous in the lesser Himalaya of Nepal. This paper presents the modeling and mapping approach and shows how medium-resolution Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument (MSI) data can be used instead of hyperspectral data in inaccessible areas of the Chure region. …”
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Physicochemical characteristics and trophic state evaluation of post glacial mountain lake using multivariate analysis by S. Nayek, S. Gupta, K.K. Pobi

“…The current study deals with the physicochemical characterization, temporal variability and trophic state evaluation of a post glacial mountain lake in eastern Himalaya during the period of 2014-2016. Notable seasonal variations are recorded for physicochemical parameters of lake water. …”
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Hydrochemical characteristics, water quality and diatom assemblage in Dordi River, Nepal by Punam Phuyal, Shraddha Ranabhat, Sanjal Khatri, Nabin Lamichhane, Ramesh Raj Pant, Lal Bahadur Thapa, Ram Kailash Prasad Yadav

“…The findings of this study could be useful for understanding hydrochemistry and association of water quality and diatoms in river basins of the Himalaya.…”
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Potential and actual evapotranspiration and Landsat derived indices by P. Kumar, D. Deka, A. Yadav, Ashwani ., M. Kumar, J.P. Das, A. Singh, A. Gurjar

“…The study aims to examine the correlation between actual evapotranspiration and potential evapotranspiration by assessing the linkages with vegetation and snow cover in an ecologically fragile located in the northwestern Himalaya.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study uses remote sensing Landsat satellite data series to map vegetation cover and snow cover in the area. …”
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A molecular toxicological study to explore potential health risks associated with ultrafine particle exposure in cold and humid indoor environments by Ziyu Shu, Shuo Qing, Xu Yang, Ping Ma, Yang Wu, Baizhan Li, Fangxin Fang, Runming Yao

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Morphology, phylogeography, phylogeny, and taxonomy of Cyclorhiza (Apiaceae) by Bo-Ni Song, Xueyimu Aou, Rong-Ming Tian, Jing Cai, Wei-Yan Tan, Chang-Kun Liu, Chang-Kun Liu, Xing-Jin He, Song-Dong Zhou

“…BackgroundThe genus Cyclorhiza is endemic to China and belongs to the Apiaceae family, which is widely distributed in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains (HHM) region. However, its morphology, phylogeny, phylogeography, taxonomy, and evolutionary history were not investigated due to insufficient sampling and lack of population sampling and plastome data. …”
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Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change by Melissa Ward Jones, Joachim Otto Habeck, Mathias Ulrich, Susan Crate, Glenna Gannon, Tobias Schwoerer, Benjamin Jones, Mikhail Kanevskiy, Prashant Baral, Amina Maharjan, Jakob Steiner, Andrew Spring, Mindy Jewell Price, David Bysouth, Bruce C. Forbes, Mariana Verdonen, Timo Kumpula, Jens Strauss, Torben Windirsch, Christopher Poeplau, Yuri Shur, Benjamin Gaglioti, Nicholas Parlato, Fulu Tao, Merritt Turetsky, Stephanie Grand, Adrian Unc, Nils Borchard

“…We highlight the socioecological diversity and complexities of permafrost-agroecosystems through seven case studies: (1) crop cultivation in Alaska, USA; (2) Indigenous food systems and crop cultivation in the Northwest Territories, Canada; (3) horse and cattle husbandry and Indigenous hay production in the Sakha Republic, Russia; (4) mobile pastoralism and husbandry in Mongolia; (5) yak pastoralism in the Central Himalaya, Nepal; (6) berry picking and reindeer herding in northern Fennoscandia; and (7) reindeer herding in northwest Russia. …”
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Kingdom of Bhutan: sovereignty against backdrop of «ethnic conflicts» in Tibetan border of India and China. 1947–2004 by M. S. Novikov, S. V. Novikov

“…Therefore, the Indian states located in the Himalayas, as well as the states of Nepal and Bhutan, attract a large number of travelers. …”
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Phylogenetic study documents different speciation mechanisms within the Russula globispora lineage in boreal and arctic environments of the Northern Hemisphere by Miroslav Caboň, Guo-Jie Li, Malka Saba, Miroslav Kolařík, Soňa Jančovičová, Abdul Nasir Khalid, Pierre-Arthur Moreau, Hua-An Wen, Donald H. Pfister, Slavomír Adamčík

“…In this study we performed a multi-locus phylogenetic study based on collections from boreal, alpine and arctic habitats of Europe and Western North America, subalpine collections from the southeast Himalayas and collections from subtropical coniferous forests of Pakistan. …”
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Unveiling the seismic sensitivity of the Himalayan tunnels: a comprehensive assessment through analytical and numerical exploration of P-wave dynamics by Abdullah Ansari, Pranjal Mandhaniya, Bilal Ahmad Malik

“…This study investigated the seismic sensitivity of tunnels in the Jammu Region (JR) of the northwestern Himalayas, a region characterized by significant seismic activity and complex geological conditions. …”
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A Computational Design Analysis of UAV’s Rotor Blade in Low-Temperature Conditions for the Defence Applications by Sreenadh Chevula, Sankeerth Chillamcharal, Satya Prasad Maddula

“…This paper discusses about the critical situations faced by the Defence operations with drones in the area of Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas. The reasons for the structural failures in drone’s rotor blades and the low-performance efficiency of the drones at low-temperature conditions are highlighted. …”
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A REVIEW ON OPHIOCORDYCEPS SINENSIS by Abhishek Subedi, Sangita Hamal, Arpana Joshi

“…Ophiocordyceps sinensis is fungus species that is found in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau. It has a complex life cycle which gets completed in two-phase. …”
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A new species of Sinarella Bryk, 1949 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Herminiinae) from Jiangxi, China by Jun Wu, Wen-Yu Liu, Hui-Lin Han

“…This genus is widely distributed from the Himalayas to Southeast Asia, Japan, Borneo, Sulawesi and New Guinea.A new species of the genus Sinarella Bryk, 1949, S. jinggangshana sp. nov., is described from Jinggangshan National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi Province, China. …”
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Habenaria trichosantha Lindl.: A newly recorded orchid from China by ZHAO Mingxu, WANG Hengying, TAN Yunhong, SUN Xingxu, HU Xingrun, CHEN Fei

“…[Results] H . trichosantha Lindl. was only recorded in the Eastern Himalayas and Indo-China Peninsula historically. It is found in the Savanna ecosystem of the dry-hot valley of Nujiang in western Yunnan. …”
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Des paysages agroforestiers à l’interface entre ressource, production et conservation (Uttarakhand, Inde) by Sylvie Guillerme

“…This is particularly the case in Uttarakhand, a mountain State in North-East India which offers a wide diversity of forestry and agroforestry landscapes in an area stretching from the fertile Ganges Plain to the snow-covered summits of the Himalayas. In such a context, and faced with an environmental and protectionist forestry policy inherited from the British colonial period, village communities are blamed for the degradation of the forests in spite of their ancestral use of these forests in association with agroforestry farming practices in the cultivated areas. …”
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Water Quality of River Kosi and Rajera System at Rampur (India): Impact Assessment by Ashish Kumar, Yogendra Bahadur

“…River Kosi, an important tributary of river Ramganga, is one of the important rivers of Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh After traveling for about 100 kms in lower Himalayas with higher velocity, it emerges at Ramnagar in Indo-Gangetic plains. …”
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Assessing national exposure to and impact of glacial lake outburst floods considering uncertainty under data sparsity by H. Chen, Q. Liang, J. Zhao, S. B. Maharjan

“…<p>Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are widely recognised as one of the most devastating natural hazards in the Himalayas, with catastrophic consequences, including substantial loss of life. …”
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Lilium huanglongense (Liliaceae): a newly-discovered species in north-western Sichuan, China by Ting Wang, Yumei Yuan, Ting-Hong Zhou, Yundong Gao

“…This section comprises dwarf lilies predominantly found in the alpine scrub of the Hengduan Mountains, extending westwards into the Himalayas. Molecular phylogenetic analyses using both nuclear ITS and chloroplast genomes confirm the independent status of the new species and its placement within the section Lophophora. …”
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