Quantitative chronologies for the impressive glacial successions that occur throughout the Himalaya have, until recently, been almost totally lacking. Within the last decade two new techniques have promised to remedy this situation. These techniques, optically stimulated luminescence and cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating, enable the age of many glacial features to be determined and hav...

Climate change is among the most important global threats to biodiversity and mountain areas are supposed to be under especially high pressure. Although recent modelling studies suggest considerable future range contractions of montane species accompanied with increased extinction risk, data allowing to test actual population consequences of the observed climate changes and identifying traits a...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to study short-term heart rate variability (HRV) in 113 apparently healthy children permanent residents of moderate altitudes, the effects of gender and altitude. METHODS Children were assigned into 3 groups according with altitude of residence: Group 1--1650 m/a/s/l (n=38), Group 2--1740 m/a/s/l (n=36) and Group 3--2030 m/a/s/l (n=39). All children underwent short-term ele...

Milan et al. (2001) identified a class of narrow, slow-moving HF radar backscatter echoes which originate between altitudes of 80 and 100 km, the ionospheric Dand lower E-regions. These echoes appeared to be associated with the occurrence of pulsating aurora, which are known to be created by energetic electrons capable of penetrating to D region altitudes. In this study we show that these echoe...