The ranges of arctic-alpine species have shifted extensively with Pleistocene climate changes and glaciations. Using sequence data from the trnH-psbA and trnT-trnL chloroplast DNA spacer regions, we investigated the phylogeography of the widespread, ancient (>3 million years) arctic-alpine plant Oxyria digyna (Polygonaceae). We identified 45 haplotypes and six highly divergent major lineages; e...

We reviewed the available climate records for past 2 millennia based on analyzed sediment and speleothem archives from different regions of South Asia. Speleothem core-monsoon Indian sub-continent have revealed Little Ice Age (LIA) as a climatically dry phase, whereas same western central Himalaya recorded LIA wet. Moreover, sediment-derived vegetation proxy [pollen-spores stable organic carbon...

This paper deals with the strategies adopted by the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HK-H) mountain communities in response to adverse natural and human induced circumstances. The quality of life and growth options in mountains (including hills) are deeply rooted in mountain specificities (e.g., fragility, marginality, diversity). Hence, the disregard of these mountain specificities while using mountain r...

wrightii, Cyanoceph alus cyanocephalus, and Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola. The Canadian Zone, which covers the middle mountain slopes and the highest foothill ranges, occurring at altitudes of from 7,500 to 10,500 feet, its the boreal forest belt of spruce, fir, lodgepole pine, and aspen; and is furthermore delimited by such mammals as A lces americanus shirasi, Glaucomys sabrinus bangsi, Ph...

Palynological analyses from exposed palaeolacustrine deposits located at the flanks of Damavand volcano, in the central AlborzMountains in Northern Iran, provide a broad idea of the temporal variation of vegetation according to climate changes during a rangeof limited time intervals during the Quaternary period. This research reveals that the regional vegetation of the study area had been asemi...

More than 1.2 million distribution records were used to create species models for 402 Palaearctic of dragonflies and damselflies. On the basis these diversity maps total, lentic lotic whole (excluding China Himalayan region) are presented. These show a clear pattern decreasing longitudinally, with numbers dropping in eastern half Europe remaining low throughout large part Russia, then increasin...

The Hezar Igneous Complex (HIC) in the south-eastern part of Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc, is the most prominent magmatic feature in the Kerman Porphyry Copper Belt, that understanding magmatic evolution of which may shed light on the tectonomagmatic development of this less-studied part of an important magmatic arc in the Neotethys realm. The HIC has been developed in the the intersection of t...

Abstract Morlet wavelet analysis is a method of studying the periodic spectrum non-stationary physical signals and applied to Himalayan Tectonic Belt explore whether there any seismic periodicity, possibility harmony or commonality properties among activities different zones. The earthquake sequence during 1951–2016 with magnitudes M ≥ 6.0 analysed. Wavelet non-periodicity for Centre zone sugge...

Copy right Idea Grou p Inc. Copy right Idea Grou p Inc. ABSTRACT This paper outlines an ongoing research on the implementation of spatial metadata server for the Hindu-Khus Himalayan region to facilitate spatial data sharing among different regional agencies. As a mainstream of information technology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is getting into the core of natural resource planning and...