The emergy evaluation of the Ladakh socio-economic system and traditional agriculture is presented. Ladakh is a region of West Himalaya (State of Jammu and Kashmir, northern India), geographically classified as “high cold desert” (altitude ranging from 2300 m to 7672 m a.s.l.), located among the Karakoram Range, the Himalayan Range and the Tibetan Plateau. The region is poor in natural resource...

Twenty medicinal plants were investigated for Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) association in a survey of the Pandam area of Darjeeling Himalaya, West Bengal. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza was found to be of universal occurrence in almost all plants located at different regions of the globe except a few one under varied eco-habitats. Great variations were found in the VAM infection perc...

Ancient medical systems are still prevalent in Sikkim, popularly nurtured by Buddhist groups using the traditional Tibetan pharmacopoeia overlapping with Ayurvedic medicine. Traditional medical practices and their associated cultural values are based round Sikkim's three major communities, Lepcha, Bhutia and Nepalis. In this study, a semi-structured questionnaire was prepared for folk healers c...

[1] We use Rayleigh and Love wave Green’s functions estimated from ambient seismic noise to study crustal structure and radial anisotropy in the tectonically complex and seismically active region west of the Sichuan Basin and around the Eastern Himalaya Syntaxis. In agreement with previous studies, low velocity zones are ubiquitous in the mid‐lower crust, with substantial variations both latera...

Geological mapping was carried out in the outer part of Lesser Himalaya Barahakshetra – Tribeni area east Nepal along Arun River valley. A revised and updated tectono-lithostratigraphic scheme with detailed description each unit their comparison central west has been presented this work. The is divided into three tectonic units named as Chimra Thrust Sheet, Dharapani Sheet Paraautochthon from n...

The N18O value of meteoric water varies with elevation, providing a means to reconstruct paleoelevation if the N18O values of paleowater are known. In this study, we determined the N18O values of water (NOmw) from small tributaries along the Seti River and Kali Gandaki in the Nepal Himalaya. We found that NOmw values decrease with increasing altitude for both transects. NOmw vs. altitude along ...

7 The hydrological budget of Himalayan rivers is dominated by monsoonal rainfall and 8 snowmelt, but their relative impact is not well established. Current knowledge of rainfall and 9 snow-cover distribution is unreliable because this remote region lacks a dense gauge network. 10 Here, we use a combination of remotely-sensed climate parameters that have been both 11 calibrated and validated to ...

7 The hydrological budget of Himalayan rivers is dominated by monsoonal rainfall and 8 snowmelt, but their relative impact is not well established. Current knowledge of rainfall and 9 snow-cover distribution is unreliable because this remote region lacks a dense gauge network. 10 Here, we use a combination of remotely-sensed climate parameters that have been both 11 calibrated and validated to ...