First biodiversity survey of Zorkul reserve, Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan

Nurturing Knowledge: Medicinal Plants in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan and Tajikistan

Geographic Layers as Landscape Drivers for the Marco Polo Argali Habitat in the Southeastern Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan

We described in this report the essential geographic layers used as landscape drivers for the Marco Polo Argali habitat in the eastern Tajik Pamirs. Using remote sensing techniques and geographic information systems (GIS), individual layers were generated in order to acquire more information on argali patterns and habitat suitability and to make the dataset available online. We introduced an im...

Antibacterial and COX-1 Inhibitory Effect of Medicinal Plants from the Pamir Mountains, Afghanistan.

Plants used to treat inflammatory ailments, pain, fever and infections in the Pamir Mountains in northeastern Afghanistan, were tested for antibacterial and COX-1 inhibitory activity. Water and ethanol extracts of 20 species were tested for antibacterial activity against two gram positive and two gram negative bacteria. The ethanol extract of Arnebia guttata inhibited Staphylococcus aureus with...

A survey of Pireneitega from Tajikistan (Agelenidae, Coelotinae)

Five new species of Pireneitega species from Tajikistan are described: Pireneitega zonsteinisp. n. (♂♀), Pireneitega muratovisp. n. (♀), Pireneitega tyuraisp. n. (♀), Pireneitega ramitensissp. n. (♀) and Pireneitega kovblyukisp. n. (♂). Pireneitega major (Kroneberg, 1875) is redescribed for the first time based on the lectotype designated here. DNA barcodes for the five new species are document...

Design of reserve networks and the persistence of biodiversity.

Sophisticated computational methods have been developed to help us to identify sets of nature reserves that maximize the representation of regional diversity, but, until recently, the methods have not dealt explicitly and directly with the main goal of reserve networks, that of the long-term maintenance of biodiversity. Furthermore, the successful application of current methods requires reliabl...