Water and nutrient availability for crop production are critical issues in (semi)arid regions. Unsaturated-zone Cl tracer data and nutrient (NO3 and PO4) concentrations were used to quantify recharge rates using the Cl mass balance approach and nutrient availability in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India. Soil cores were collected in dune/interdune settings in the arid Thar Desert (near Jaisalmer...

The densely populated Indian Thar Desert, which extends from India to Pakistan, is the 18th largest in the world. Diurnal variation in temperature, erratic precipitation, poor soil texture, and saline tracts are serious constraints for the livelihood of humans. The Indian Thar Desert also has significant natural resources that can be harnessed to mitigate constraints and to support life of its ...

Breast Feeding and Weaning Practices have a major effect on short term and long term nutritional status of infants. An attempt was made to find out the pattern of infant feeding practices in Thar Desert of Rajasthan so as to know the community perceptions existing in this area. Data were collected from 434 young women belonging to rural house-holds of Thar Desert. Analysis revealed that exclusi...

Two new species of Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 are described from India: P. godawan Tripathi & Sankaran sp. nov. (♂♀), collected the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, and maldhok Kuni, Maharashtra. Images endogyne male palp holotype paratype narsinhmehtai Parajapati, Hun Raval, 2021 presented to facilitate its identification. A key Indian a catalogue palpimanid spiders provided. The current distributio...

Paleozoic gneissic granitoids are an important lithologic component of the Shoo Fly Complex of the central Sierra Nevada, California. Field relations, petrographic, and geochemical studies indicate that the gneisses were originally intruded as a seri.es of plutons ranging from gabbro (oldest) to granite and granodiorite (median age) to syenite (youngest) with the granitoid types predominating. ...